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.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Maurice Utrillo, Not-Quite-Forgotten Modernist

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Back around 1960, Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) was still being featured as an example of modernism in an art history class I took in college....
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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Piet van der Hem, Dutch Illustrator and Painter

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Pieter van der Hem (1885-1961), called "Piet," came to my attention thanks to this Sept. 21, 2015 post on David Apatoff's Ill...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Gustav Klimt's Houses at Unterach on the Attersee

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The painting shown above is Häuser in Unterach am Attersee (Houses at Unterach on the Attersee) painted around 1916 by Gustav Klimt (1862...
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Mr. Munch and Mrs. Schwarz

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In July I was working my way through the Edvard Munch (1863-1944) portion of the Rasmus Meyer collection at the Bergen, Norway Kunstmuseet...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Coping With the Great Depression: John Newton Howitt

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Note: I drafted this on 13 June for later posting. Now it turns out Illustration Magazine's just-released Issue No. 49 has a large art...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Architects' Homes: The "Harvard Five"

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I find the houses architects design for themselves interesting. Presumably, the constraint of catering to the desires of a client are swept...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Adolph Menzel: Tiny Works from a Tiny Man

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Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815-1905) -- the "von" bestowed late in his career -- was very popular in his day and honore...
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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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