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.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Art News from The Wall Street Journal

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The Wall Street Journal has been evolving its Saturday/Sunday edition. A few months ago some morphing yielded two new sections. One is tit...
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Monday, May 9, 2011

Tiepolo's Female Faces

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Giovannia Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo (1696-1770) -- Wikipedia entry here -- began and cemented his career in Venice, spent a few year...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Anniversary

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Today marks one year since my first post here at Art Contrarian. For a while I cross-posted material at 2Blowhards.com. But eventually Ra...
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Jaguar C-Type: When Race Cars Looked Like Cars

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Once upon a time that ended in the late 1960s, road-racing cars looked somewhat like something one could buy from a dealer and drive away on...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Barnes & Noble's Mural Guy

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Walk into a typical Barnes & Noble bookstore in the USA, seek out the Starbucks coffee shop area and you're likely to see a printed...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Jack Vettriano Redux, Sort Of

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The painting at the top is "Only the Deepest Red I" by Scottish painter Jack Vettriano (1951 - ), the other is by Californian R...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Winnowing Art Books

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Their time has nearly come. They lay stacked atop chairs and book cases, even tucked away in corners on the floor. Soon they will be gone....
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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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