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, October 17, 2014

Violet, the Artist Duchess

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Marion Margaret Violet Manners (née Lindsay), Duchess of Rutland (1856-1937) was a famed Victorian beauty who was portrayed by the likes of ...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Jefferson Machamer: Gals, Gals, Gals Cartoonist

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Thomas Jefferson Machamer (1901-1960) was a popular cartoonist from the mid-1920s through the 1940s. A brief Wikipedia entry is here , and ...
Monday, October 13, 2014

How Well Could Cézanne Draw?

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Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), who received little general recognition until the last decade of his life, is now credited as being the "brid...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Molti Ritratti: Ellen Terry

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Dame Ellen Terry (1847-1928), one of England's more important actresses in her day, had portraits painted of her by some lesser-known ar...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Towards the End: Picasso

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In January 2011, I wrote an "In the Beginning" post ( here ) featuring Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), who the general public still se...
Friday, October 3, 2014

Ted Rand: Local Illustrator Who Made Good

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Eons ago, when I was majoring in commercial art at the University of Washington, the Big Man in the Seattle illustration scene was Ted Rand ...
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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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