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.

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Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Monday, November 30, 2020

The Versatile Philadelphian: Earl Horter

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Earl Horter (1881-1940) was an illustrtor, art director, oil and watercolor painter, etcher and probably worked in other media as well.  He ...
Monday, July 9, 2012

Vanity Fair Does Jack Vettriano

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I normally don't bother reading Vanity Fair magazine, but my wife does. Once in a while she'll call my attention to an article abou...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Are Newspapers Over-Designed?

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Aside from buying a Wall Street Journal two or three days a week, flipping through a free USA Today from the hotel when traveling and barely...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Incredible Shrinking Magazines

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Time to add a few more points to the declining media curve. Today's Sunday newspaper insert, Parade magazine , struck me as being a fr...
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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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