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.

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

Up Close: William Orpen's Adrian Carton de Wiart

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Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931), Wikipedia entry here , is perhaps best-known for his portrait work and Grear War related pa...
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Monday, June 24, 2024

Multi Ritratti: Mary Robinson "Perdita"

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My "Multi Ritratti" posts that present multiple portraits of the same subject -- usually by more than one artist -- are of people ...
Monday, May 27, 2024

MSC Cruise Ship's Streamlined Front End

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I was at Malta's Grand Harbour recently (May, 2024) and noticed a large cruise ship with an unusually-streamlined "G-shape" fr...
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Monday, April 8, 2024

Some Very Early Jon Whitcomb Illustrations

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Jon Whitcomb (1906–1988) was an illustrator best remembered for depictions of glamorous women.  I wrote about him here and here .  Some bio...
Monday, February 19, 2024

More on Vadim Voitekhovitch's Steampunk World

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Vadim Voitekhovitch (1963 - ), born in what is now Belarus, moved to Germany in 2004.  He mostly paints Steampunk scenes of apparently ficti...
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Monday, January 1, 2024

Sculpture-Augmented Frescoes at Würzburg Residenz

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Last summer (2023) I toured Würzburg's Residenz, the palace of the Prince-Bishop when the area was a unit of the Holy Roman Empire.  Its...
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Monday, November 13, 2023

Louis Buisseret, 1920s Belgian Realist

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Louis Buisseret (1888 - 1956), Wikipedia entry here , was not a major artist, being employed for 20 years as a provincial  art academy admin...
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Donald Pittenger
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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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