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.

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Kees: From Anarchism to High Society

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Some paintings by Kees van Dongen (1877-1968, Wikipedia entry here ) have been selling at auction for prices north of three million dollars ...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Dali on the Geography of Great Painting

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Great painters don't pop up just any old place, or so claimed Salvador Dalí. I came across this while reading his book 50 Secrets of Mag...
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...
Monday, June 14, 2010

Taurus Style: Alignment and Surfaces

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And just what is that dinky side crease doing on that 2010 Ford Taurus pictured below? 2010 Ford Taurus It's that little horizontal das...
Saturday, June 12, 2010

The City that Almost Became

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It grew like fury along with the automobile industry. Then it stopped in the Crash of 1929 before it had fully gelled. I'm speaking of ...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

Lovis Corinth, Before and After

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For a case in point about the notion that "timing is everything," consider the German painter Lovis Corinth (1858-1925 -- Wikipedi...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

The Salvador Takes on St. Paul

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There are actually times when Salvador Dalí's statements should be taken seriously. More accurately, taken as intended to be serious. S...
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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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