HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 62 articles in category 'Art'. Au Moulin de la Galette, Madeleine Enigma in the Sapphic mood Posted on UTC 2026-01-01 04:21 Words: 2,667; reading time: 12 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Erich Kästner, Sachliche Romanze; Martin Parr, A couple in a cafe Posted on UTC 2025-11-01 07:22 Words: 684; reading time: 3 minutes Two images for August Heinrich Pestalozzi, the good and the better. Posted on UTC 2025-08-02 09:03 Words: 1,243; reading time: 5 minutes Icon An icon for the new media age Posted on UTC 2025-03-01 17:00 Words: 992; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and images of the month for October Albert Anker's night in the slammer. Posted on UTC 2021-10-22 07:22 Words: 1,209; reading time: 5 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Hermann Hesse, Im Nebel. Image: Giovanni Giacometti, Nebbia (Maloja). Posted on UTC 2020-11-01 05:02 Words: 1,799; reading time: 8 minutes Paying the Harvesters A close look at Léon Augustin Lhermitte's magnificent painting. Posted on UTC 2020-08-01 03:05 Words: 4,867; reading time: 22 minutes Quote and image of the month for March Quote: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Säerspruch. Image: Albin Egger-Lienz, Der Sämann. Posted on UTC 2020-03-14 14:02 Words: 469; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for February Quote: Bertolt Brecht, Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters. Image: Albin Egger-Lienz, Mann und Weib. Posted on UTC 2020-02-03 14:17 Words: 1,705; reading time: 7 minutes Quote and image of the month for January Quote: Siegfried Lenz, Heimatmuseum. Image: Anshelm Schultzberg, A Winter Morning after a Snowfall in Dalarna. Posted on UTC 2020-01-25 11:13 Words: 478; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for December Quote: Werner Bergengruen, The Shepherds. Image: Jules Bastien-Lepage, The Annunciation to the Shepherds. Posted on UTC 2019-12-16 07:13 Words: 1,110; reading time: 5 minutes Quote and image of the month for October Quote: Georg Trakl, Verklärter Herbst. Image: Peder Severin Krøyer, Wine Harvest in the Tyrol. Posted on UTC 2019-10-18 10:17 Words: 614; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Rudolf Hagelstange Bei den schwarzen Baptisten. Image: Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With. Posted on UTC 2019-09-17 13:02 Words: 1,928; reading time: 8 minutes Quote and image of the month for August Quote: Arthur Schopenhauer Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung. Image: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, The Extraction of the Stone of Madness. Posted on UTC 2019-08-01 07:32 Words: 774; reading time: 3 minutes Walpurgisnacht Chimney breasts – bottoms, too. Can Walpurgisnacht survive the #metoo era? Posted on UTC 2019-04-28 10:03 Words: 352; reading time: 1 minute Isaiah the Obscured Where is he when we need him? Posted on UTC 2019-04-15 12:43 Words: 5,022; reading time: 22 minutes Quotes and images of the month for December Quotes: George Eliot Journals, Friedrich Hebbel, Diaries. Images: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Virgin and Child. Posted on UTC 2018-12-01 07:32 Words: 2,485; reading time: 11 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Karl Friedrich von Kübeck: the viva voce examination, 1801. Image: Follower of Caravaggio, Saint Matthew and the Angel. Posted on UTC 2018-11-10 10:19 Words: 642; reading time: 2 minutes Image of the month for June Henriette Browne, A Girl Writing. Posted on UTC 2018-06-10 11:07 Words: 959; reading time: 4 minutes Behind the copyright ramparts Doing dead artists no favours at all. Posted on UTC 2018-05-11 09:03 Words: 1,193; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for March The cloud of unknowing | Nerve gas: you ask, we answer. | The cheque's in the post | Amelia Earhart | Persil Man | Dog-bites-man Posted on UTC 2018-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,139; reading time: 5 minutes The key question in abstract art What on earth does it mean? Posted on UTC 2018-03-19 07:21 Words: 1,000; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and image of the month for January Quote: Gérard de Nerval, Aurélia ou le rêve et la vie. Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night. Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 01:02 Words: 454; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for December 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' | You have been warned! | A puzzle we can answer | Every terror cloud has a silver lining | Grumpy Monday | Dim and Dhimmi | Judith: not to be messed with Posted on UTC 2017-12-01 02:01 Words: 845; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for November Don't worry, be happy | Shaping the science agenda | Diana's revenge | Peace at last | Thanksgiving | Dim and dangerous | Site changes | Distraction therapy | Still on your own Posted on UTC 2017-11-01 02:01 Words: 1,331; reading time: 6 minutes Quote and image of the month for October Quote: Brian Aldiss, Report on Probability A (1969). Image: William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd (1851). Posted on UTC 2017-11-01 01:02 Words: 3,116; reading time: 14 minutes Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Der Schattenfotograf, 1978. Images: Various, The Cheder. Posted on UTC 2017-09-01 01:02 Words: 326; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for August Quotes: Heinrich Heine (1831) and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1887). Images: Léopold Robert, L'Arrivée des Moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins (1830) and Friedrich Kallmorgen, Erntezeit (1891). Posted on UTC 2017-08-01 01:02 Words: 951; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and image of the month for July Quote: Georg Heym, Ophelia, 1911. Image: John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-2. Posted on UTC 2017-07-01 01:02 Words: 1,138; reading time: 5 minutes Winston and his Swiss paintmaker A review of Champagner mit Churchill, Philipp Gut's account of the friendship between Winston Churchill and his Swiss paint supplier, Willy Sax. Posted on UTC 2017-07-02 12:50 Words: 921; reading time: 4 minutes Quote and image of the month for June Quote: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. A Story of the French Revolution, 1859. Image: Samuel Bough, London from Shooter's Hill, 1872. Posted on UTC 2017-06-01 01:02 Words: 885; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for June Progress Illinois Style | Arnie's smallest audience | Dim and dimmer | Pulling teeth | Summer solstice | Trump: the first five months | North update: no hope | Steady as she goes | Jack of all trades, master of none | The art of political survival | No wheels on her waggon | Tesla – makes your hair stand on end | Hung parliament, unfortunately not properly | Swedish National Day | One proxy reconstruction doth not a denial make. Fifty-eight: probably | Smile, you're on Candid Camera | Lucky Lukens | Enough is enough | Breakfast like an emperor Posted on UTC 2017-06-01 02:01 Words: 3,931; reading time: 17 minutes Quote and image of the month for January Quote: Wilhelm Busch, [Sahst du das wunderbare Bild von Brouwer?]. Image: Adriaen Brouwer, Die Operation am Rücken. Posted on UTC 2017-01-01 01:02 Words: 281; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for December 2016 Quote: Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality. Image: Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciazione. Posted on UTC 2016-12-01 01:02 Words: 381; reading time: 1 minute Beyond analysis Geertgen tot Sint Jans' painting Geboorte van Christus / Nativity at Night. Posted on UTC 2016-12-23 12:22 Words: 637; reading time: 2 minutes 'Modesty' – or not, as the case may be. Antonio Corradini's veiled masterpiece: no modesty at all here, in any sense. Posted on UTC 2016-12-17 09:30 Words: 586; reading time: 2 minutes Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Jules Laforgue, Winter Coming On. Image: Édouard-Léon Cortès, Place de Madeleine, après la pluié. Posted on UTC 2016-11-01 01:02 Words: 286; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for October Quote: René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation III. Image: Edward Hopper, Automat. Posted on UTC 2016-10-01 01:02 Words: 167; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for October More intimations of mortality | Alan Turing, useful genius | Dismantling Hillary | Aberfan: a tale of two inquiries | Matt Ridley: Global Warming versus Global Greening | Snowflake of the Month | A grave question | More Waugh | The plague of politics | Intimations of mortality | Mummy knows best | Looking over your shoulder | Spare the rod Posted on UTC 2016-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,553; reading time: 11 minutes The Man in Black: an expert writes Art historians – they are just not like us. The tedious tale of this slapdash portrait continues. Posted on UTC 2016-10-26 10:44 Words: 1,968; reading time: 8 minutes The Man in Black No, not that one, the other one – the expensive one. It's still all about cash, though. Posted on UTC 2016-10-17 10:15 Words: 2,519; reading time: 11 minutes Quote and image of the month for September Quote: Marianne Hem Eriksen, Doors to the dead; T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton. Image: Martinus Rørbye, Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested. Posted on UTC 2016-09-01 01:02 Words: 391; reading time: 1 minute That Sappho thing Hold on tight to your dreams. Posted on UTC 2016-09-23 10:57 Words: 154; reading time: 1 minute Arthur Szyk: FDR's 'Soldier in Art' Satan Leads the Ball considered. Posted on UTC 2016-08-29 19:13 Words: 2,281; reading time: 10 minutes Citroën DS23 Gone but not forgotten: the rustbucket goddess remembered. Posted on UTC 2016-08-26 16:27 Words: 717; reading time: 3 minutes Portrait of the age Joseph, Leopold and the Enlightenment manifesto made visible by Pompeo Batoni. Posted on UTC 2016-08-20 10:28 Words: 7,070; reading time: 32 minutes Quote and image of the month for July Quote: Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That. Image: William Orpen, Ready To Start. Self Portrait. Posted on UTC 2016-07-01 01:02 Words: 828; reading time: 3 minutes Renaissance mechanics Skilful recreations of some classical paintings as garage workshop scenes. Posted on UTC 2016-07-14 09:37 Words: 39; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for June Quote: Basil Bunting, Briggflatts. Image: Aureliano de Beruete, Espinos en flor. Plantío de los Infantes (Flowering Hawthorn). Posted on UTC 2016-06-01 01:02 Words: 232; reading time: 1 minute The fine art of wonderment The Vincent van Gogh guide to Platonic astonishment. Posted on UTC 2016-06-22 11:22 Words: 2,494; reading time: 11 minutes Scrapbook for April Aide-memoire | #BringBackOurMen | Heartwarming | Dressing gown | Boaty McBoatface | John Whittingdale, chick magnet | The devastating power of hashtags | The terrorists are winning | Butch Spaniards on the rampage | A helpful tip for savers | Headline of the year candidate | The helping hand Posted on UTC 2016-04-01 02:01 Words: 2,509; reading time: 11 minutes Quote and image of the month for March Quote: Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind. Image: Albert Edelfelt, Good Friends, Portrait of the Artist's Sister Bertha Edelfelt. Posted on UTC 2016-03-01 01:02 Words: 177; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for March Tears: an instrument of foreign policy | Wasting police time | Headline of the year award | Rigour, not mortis | Geography made easy | The god of the forest | Hyacinth time | Swiss referendum updates | The Dohlen are here! Posted on UTC 2016-03-01 02:01 Words: 750; reading time: 3 minutes The great survivor The Swiss artist Hans Erni's monster mural Die Schweiz, das Ferienland der Völker. Rescued, but why and for whom? Posted on UTC 2016-03-14 12:42 Words: 2,604; reading time: 11 minutes The Hans Erni lockdown Imprisoned in museums and coffee table books, his work is destined for internet oblivion. Posted on UTC 2016-03-03 08:12 Words: 1,348; reading time: 6 minutes Quote and image of the month for February Quote: Fink et al., The Oasis of Happiness: Toward an Ontology of Play. Image: Benjamin Williams Leader, February Fill Dyke. Posted on UTC 2016-02-01 01:02 Words: 315; reading time: 1 minute False gods in graven images Will the real John Walker please stand up? Posted on UTC 2016-02-17 15:12 Words: 1,537; reading time: 6 minutes Quote and image of the month for January 2016 Quote: Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Image: Ivar Arosenius, Backusfest. Posted on UTC 2016-01-01 01:02 Words: 228; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for December Quote: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Image: Modesto Urgell e Inglada, La vuelta del entierro/Returning from the burial. Posted on UTC 2015-12-01 01:02 Words: 174; reading time: 1 minute Quote and image of the month for November Quote: Wilhelm Müller, Die Winterreise. Image: Carl Julius von Leypold, Der Wanderer im Sturm/The wanderer in the storm. Posted on UTC 2015-11-01 01:02 Words: 55; reading time: 1 minute All Saints' Day, 1 November Some thoughts for All Saints' Day, 1 November on the painting La Toussaint by the French artist Émile Friant. Posted on UTC 2015-11-01 10:12 Words: 1,104; reading time: 5 minutes Quote and image of the month for October Quote: Ezra Pound, The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Image: Édouard Manet, Un bar aux Folies Bergère. Posted on UTC 2015-10-01 01:02 Words: 153; reading time: 1 minute
