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.

Monday, February 28, 2022

Paul George Lawler's Pan American Posters

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Above is a well-known poster from around 1941.  The setting seems to be largely imaginary or exaggerated, but the airplane is correctly sh...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Some Trieste Heads

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The Italian port city Trieste was under Hapsburg rule for more than 500 years ending in 1918 at the conclusion of the Great War. The scul...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Robert Fawcett -- Discovering the Murder

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Robert Fawcett (1903-1967) was partly colorblind.  Perhaps that was why his strengths as an illustrator were in composition and depiction of...
Monday, February 7, 2022

Ferrara's Palazzo dei Diamanti

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Ferrara Italy's painting museum, the Palazzo dei Diamanti, was built as a residence during the years around 1500.  As such, it has no pa...
Monday, January 31, 2022

José Moreno Carbonero, Painter of History and Don Quixote

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José Moreno Carbonero (1858-1942), Wikipedia entry here , was well known and respected in Spain during his career.  The Prado has some of hi...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Amsterdam's Scheepvaarthuis Ornamentation

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Scheepvaarthuis, Wikipedia entry here , at last report was a hotel.  Before that, as the name implies, it was built to house shipping compan...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Sagrada Familia Interior

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Barcelona's most famous building is the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) basilica designed by Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926).  Construction beg...
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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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