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, June 6, 2016

Automobile as Genre: Robert Bechtle

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Robert Bechtle (b. 1932) is a genre painter of the so-called photorealist variety. Come to think of it, almost any photorealist painting is...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

The Los Angeles Broad

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I visited the new Broad art museum in downtown Los Angeles March 1st with my wife and some LA friends. It contains much of the collection o...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Dorothy Hood, Fashion Illustrator

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This is probably the least-informative post I've ever done. That's because I can't seem to find anything on the Internet or in ...
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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Ken Auster, Mostly-Urban Impressionist

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Charley Parker called my attention to the passing of Ken Auster (1949-2016). Some images of his paintings and a short biography can be fou...
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Monday, May 23, 2016

Fritz Willis' Non-Pinups

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Fritz Willis (1907-1979) was a first-rate pinup artist who did other kinds of illustration earlier in his career. But even then, his focus ...
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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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