Screensavers

These screensavers are contained in their own executable files; click on the name of the one of your choice and download it to wherever on your computer you normally download .EXE files, then double-click on it and it will install itself automatically and display a text file.
The maximum size of the pictures is 800x600 and, in the Setup page, I suggest you uncheck the the option to adjust the size to your display. This will help preserve the quality of the picture.
Click on a thumbnail to see a sample picture.
If you like what you see then you might care to call back, because I'll be adding more as time goes by.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
The twenty-four paintings in this screen saver are just a few from the many thousands which form the Turner Bequest, housed in the Tate Gallery and the British Museum London. They are from the latter part of the artist's career and show him as a painter of light. Some of them seem startlingly modern and clearly show Turner as the precursor of the French Impressionists.

Twenty five drawings by Dutch artist and draughtsman M C Escher. These eccentric designs explore space in an original and challenging way. Some play tricks with perspective, or show impossible buildings, or appear to flout natural laws; they need to be examined carefully to see what's going on.

The English artist and ornithologist John Gould (1804-1881) is probably the greatest of bird illustrators. His scope was immense, as he travelled all over the world to find material for his work; the accuracy is extraordinary; and the beauty of the illustrations
is considerable. Each of these screensavers presents twenty of the fruits of his travels in the Americas.

Ukiyo-e means the floating, or transient, world; the world of earthly, rather than spiritual, experience. So this collection of twenty-two prints by Japanese masters of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are of actors. The prints were intended
for mass circulation, very much a popular art form.