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.

Showing posts with label Adaptive Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adaptive Artists. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Millard Sheets: General-Purpose Artist

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Millard Sheets (1907-1989), was a Californian involved in a variety of art-related activities ranging from watercolor and oil painting to mo...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

Ivan Albright: One Style Fits Forever

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Ivan Albright (1897-1983) didn't paint every painting he made using the same style, but his best-known ones have nearly the same look...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Jack B., the Other Yeats

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The grave in my photo above is that of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), author, poet and sometime politician. It is in the yard of a Pr...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

Frantisek Kupka: Stylistic Gadfly

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Just about any artist aspiring to become a professional faces the task of deciding what style or school to follow. This was particularly di...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Adaptive Artists: Dean Cornwell

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With this post I started an occasional series dealing with illustrators who preserved their careers by adjusting their style to suit changi...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Adaptive Artists: Harold Von Schmidt

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Some illustrators flash in the pan. Others can sustain a distinctive style for a decade or longer provided that style is in synch with the ...
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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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