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Category Archive: Life

Last Week on My Mac: No thanks for the memories

Because of its glorious past, Apple is about the future. But just now we need our past, with the future looking so uncertain.

March 22, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Who sat Saint Cecilia at the keyboard? 1

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Her legends are confusing, but make no significant mention of music. So how did she become patron saint of music and musicians?

March 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Rural Midwest: paintings of Grant Wood

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Beyond his most famous painting ‘American Gothic’, Wood shows life in the rural Midwest, and tells stories of Paul Revere and George Washington.

March 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Realist Paintings of Piet Mondrian 3

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He completes his journey through Cubism to abstraction, but takes a pause to paint a few landscapes around 1916-17.

March 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Uncertain times

A few months ago, we all felt that we lived in uncertain times, but I suspect none of […]

March 19, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Raphael and Painting: 8 Prophets and Popes

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The painting that made Saint Cecilia the patron saint of music, a vision of Ezekiel, Pope Leo X, and a woman who could be a courtesan or the artist’s partner.

March 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Orlando Furioso: Death on Lampedusa

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While Ruggiero ends up shipwrecked on a rock, Orlando and his team of paladins face combat with Agramante on the island of Lampedusa.

March 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Patrons & Painters: Constable’s French connection

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Most of his paintings before 1829 flopped when shown in Britain, but from the Salon of 1824, his work was highly praised in Paris.

March 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Caring for well-washed hands

Are your hands becoming dry and cracked with all this washing? Here are simple, cheap and proven solutions.

March 16, 2020 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Tilting at Windmills – in paintings, 2

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Paintings by Bonington, Jongkind, Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Piet Mondrian show the latter years of windmills in northern Europe.

March 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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