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 Celebrity Artists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebrity Artists. Show all posts
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Celebrity Artists: Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) accomplished a thing or two during his long life. Among those things were some 500 or so paintings. This wa...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

Celebrity Artists: Physicist Richard Feynman

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My guess is that it is amateur artists who keep most art supply stores in business. And without that demand, there might be fewer makers of...
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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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