Art Contrarian

A blog about about painting, design and other aspects of aesthetics along with a dash of non-art topics. The point-of-view is that modernism in art is an idea that has, after a century or more, been thoroughly tested and found wanting. Not to say that it should be abolished -- just put in its proper, diminished place.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Sagrada Construction Zone

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Sagrada Família , the giant church designed by architect Antoni Gaudí is probably Barcelona's most famous landmark, an unmistakable sy...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

First, You Put an Airship on the Cover

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Science Fiction was simple when I was younger, ranging from "space opera" (cowboys and Indians plots adapted to interplanetary set...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

Sorolla Museum: Pictorial Report

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Allow me to confess at the outset that I'm a fan of Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). So the morning after arriv...
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Donald Pittenger
Seattle, Washington
Undergraduate art major. Ph.D. in Sociology, Demography from a fancy Ivy university. Software system and user interface designer and programmer. Writing about art and design on the Internet since 2005. Email: dbpittenger (at) earthlink.net

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