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.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Karl Albert Buehr's Ladies and Parasols

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According to this account, it seems that Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952) was a successful Chicago area artist and teacher (at the Art Institu...
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Painting One Area at a Time

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My readings in the How To Paint genre usually advise that a painting should be worked up as a whole rather than completed area by area. The...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

The Gallery Scene

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I really should devote more time to the gallery scene, but for some reason I get inhibited because I am not at all a buyer of serious art an...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Separated at Birth: Hudson Step-Down and Jaguar XJ

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My e-book on automobile styling argues that there hasn't been much evolution in the appearance of sedans since about 1950. Yes, techno...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Up Close: Saul Tepper

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This is part of an occasional series dealing with detail images of paintings featuring the brushwork of the artist. Previous posts can be f...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

Guy Rose: Impressionism from Giverny to Laguna

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Guy Orlando Rose (1867-1925) was essentially an Impressionist. In America, he is known as a California Impressionist, but he spent about a ...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Noel Sickles' Scorchy Smith Evolution

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The appearance of a comic strip usually evolves, especially in the early years when the artist is gaining understanding the characters he cr...
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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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