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, November 10, 2016

Vanished and Vanishing New York: 1960s Photos

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New York City has been demolishing its past and rebuilding since it was established by the Dutch in 1624. Recent decades have seen successf...
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Monday, November 7, 2016

The Layered World of Sergio Cerchi

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I really need to see an actual painting by Florentine artist Sergio Cerchi to be sure of what he's doing. This site suggests that his ...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

New York City People: 1965

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During the 1960s, rigid following of women's clothing and grooming fashions began to fall away. I find it fairly easy to guess the appr...
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Cyrus, the Senior Cuneo

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Cyrus Cincinnati Cuneo (1879-1916) died young from a freak accident: blood poisoning from a hatpin prick at a dance. At the time, he was a...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

Edmund F. Ward

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Edmund Franklin Ward (1892-1990) was not as famous as some other illustrators during the 1890-1960 heyday of American magazine illustration....
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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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