Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

landscape

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 2

T T Read More

From 1853, painters of the Barbizon School continued to innovate. Then in 1865, the young Alfred Sisley and Auguste Renoir came to paint there.

April 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 1

T T Read More

When Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’ won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824, it inspired the foundation of the Barbizon School, and led to Impressionism.

April 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 2

T T Read More

Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.

March 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 1

T T Read More

This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.

March 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Nils Jakob Blommér: 2 Landscapes

T T Read More

Born in southern Sweden, he won medals at the Royal Swedish Academy, and funds to travel to Europe. He ended up in Rome, where he married.

March 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Thatched Cottages 2

T T Read More

As they were being replaced by tiles and slates, thatched roofs started to become fashionable, and are now popular tourist attractions. Paintings of thatch from the 20th century.

February 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Thatched Cottages 1

T T Read More

Once the mark of rural poverty, thatched roofs were common throughout the countryside of Europe. Here are some up to the 1890s.

February 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Ukraine Landscapes

T T Read More

From the Pontic Steppe came many of our languages, domesticated horses, the wheel, and these landscape paintings from the 19th century.

February 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Altogether Now: 3 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

T T Read More

Remember the water cycle from school? Here’s the grandfather of such explanatory diagrams, told in one of the first modern landscape paintings.

February 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 0 Artists and contents

T T Read More

Table of contents and a full index to all the artists whose paintings are discussed in this series.

January 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 3 … 50 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • M1 Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • LockRattler: 12.x Monterey
  • VisualLookUpTest
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Follow Following
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 5,762 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...