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, January 16, 2015

Identify the Artist

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I download a lot of images to my desktop computer. Some are reference photos. Others are intended to be used in posts on this blog. Quite...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Vanessa Bell, Modernist Amateur

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Vanessa Bell, née Stephen, (1879-1961) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group . A brief Wikipedia entry about her is here and a lengthy Guar...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Otis (and Dorothy) Shepard: Billbord Masters

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Otis "Shep" Shepard (1894-1969) and his wife Dorothy Van Gorder Shepard (1906-2000) were important figures in American poster and ...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Oswald Birley, 20th Century Painter of Royals and Society

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Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley (1880-1952) is yet another of the surprising number of British portrait artists I've written about who m...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

In the Beginning: Childe Hassam

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Frederick Childe Hassam (1859-1935), who dropped "Frederick" early in his career, was one of the best known and most successful Am...
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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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