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.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Walter Everett: Two Works in Progress

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Walter H. Everett (1880-1946), a student of the great Howard Pyle, was an exceptionally good illustrator who had a couple of character flaws...
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Monday, January 4, 2016

Guilty Pleasures: Noir Art of Glen Orbik

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Glen Orbik (1963-2015) died of cancer all too soon. He was a talented artist who divided his time between teaching and creating superhero i...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

Marcel Rieder by Lamplight

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Marcel Rieder (1862-1942) was an Alsacian who spent most of his life and career in Paris, as this brief Wikipedia mentions. It also state...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Celebrity Artists: Physicist Richard Feynman

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My guess is that it is amateur artists who keep most art supply stores in business. And without that demand, there might be fewer makers of...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Alfredo Ambrosi, Aeropittura Artist

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Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi (1901-1945) -- Wikipedia entry in French here -- was not the most famous or best practitioner of Aeropittura , a late...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Raymond Leech, East Anglian Vettriano

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I recently stumbled across images of Raymond Leech (1949 - ) paintings. As this biographical sketch indicates, Leech is based in England...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Out of Character: Pierre Bonnard and Odilon Redon

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I recently saw the Seattle Art Museum exhibit "Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art" that featured mostly smal...
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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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