tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post1436055500953656386..comments2024-03-28T15:08:55.350-07:00Comments on Art Contrarian: Reacting to Modernism: Walter F. IsaacsDonald Pittengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307228686847434740noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-63581690014725903402014-07-23T10:42:45.204-07:002014-07-23T10:42:45.204-07:00Snowboarder -- Try contacting the University of Wa...Snowboarder -- Try contacting the University of Washington School of Art and mention the fall 2011 exhibit I mention in the Post. They might be able to steer you to someone who assembled the paintings.Donald Pittengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307228686847434740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-27080253570983142022014-07-23T10:14:03.125-07:002014-07-23T10:14:03.125-07:00I believe the portrait done in the 1940s is of my ...I believe the portrait done in the 1940s is of my Great Aunt. Do you have any info on how I could track it down? Thanks!Snowboarderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17021178026568447108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-26059293956393692022011-11-02T07:53:34.602-07:002011-11-02T07:53:34.602-07:00derieme -- I think that it was modernism itself mo...derieme -- I think that it was modernism itself more than other factors. But the availability of photography made it easy to rationalize the modernist touches by claiming that (1) the artist was getting to the core of the sitter, and/or (2) the artist was expressing his personal reaction/evaluation/etcetera of the sitter.<br /><br />The NPG in London is fascinating because, by the 1920s and 30s, most of the portraits displayed are in the modernist mode even tho' photography had been around for 80-some years by then. So artistic fashion in play.<br /><br />Today most commissioned portraits in the USA tend to follow traditional practices.Donald Pittengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307228686847434740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7589105760911453392.post-72400972235096160942011-11-02T04:52:58.375-07:002011-11-02T04:52:58.375-07:00Forgive my ignorance, but I assume that portrait p...Forgive my ignorance, but I assume that portrait painting changed when portrait photography became widely available? Did it change again in response to colour photography?deariemenoreply@blogger.com