The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?
Category Archive: Life
There’s a reliable and accurate index for the heat which can’t be measured by iPhones or Macs, and isn’t understood by many anyway.
Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.
Why should anyone still want to work with email messages in text? Here’s why, and how you can benefit too.
He didn’t ‘sky’ like Constable, but did make innovative studies of skies on the coast. Paintings a good 30-40 years ahead of his time.
Nudes out in fresh air and sunshine, engravings in his distinctive lined style, and some social comment in the 1890s.
Milton’s own book-by-book summary with a selection of the finest paintings and illustrations, and links to individual articles.
Not well known now, she features in two myths which have been extensively painted by Tintoretto, Carracci, Brueghel, and Claude Lorrain.
Response to Courbet’s ‘Burial at Ornans’, a curious work by Edvard Munch, and very disturbing thoughts about burial alive.
Little painted until Courbet’s huge ‘Burial at Ornans’, most were drawn from classical mythology or history, and one showing the Hutsul people of the Ukraine.
The Eclectic Light Company 