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 Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2020

Thomas Wilmer Dewing's Women with Musical Instruments

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) -- Wikipedia entry here -- painted many gauzy, dreamy images of women in a style so distinctive that it wo...
Thursday, November 30, 2017

Lionello Balestrieri: Painter, Music Lover

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Lionello Balestrieri (1872-1958) received honors in his day, but now seems to be considered a minor figure. For instance, although he was a...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Opera Notes

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My wife likes for us to attend opera, so I go. Last week it was Mozart's Magic Flute which we'd previously seen in San Jose. The S...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Should the Detroit Symphony Die?

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Not being anything close to an expert on such swaths of art as music, drama and literature, I tend to use articles by people who know the st...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Grumpy About Wagner

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Yesterday I sat through the Seattle Opera's production of Richard Wagner's Tristn und Isolde (hereafter, T&I). And boy did it ...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Delibes is Da Best (Sort of)

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I almost never go to ballet. Fundamentally, it's pantomime set to music, and I have little use for pantomime (though yes, I played char...
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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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