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, June 28, 2018

Otto Soglow: From The New Masses to The Little King

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Otto Soglow (1900-1975) was a successful comic strip cartoonist. His Little King character first appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 193...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Henry Lamb: Painter, Physician

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Henry Taylor Lamb (1883-1960) had almost completed his medical training when he chucked it and took up art. As mentioned here , some of his...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

William Strang's Painting of People

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William Strang (1959-1921) was a Scot who spent his career in London, first as an etcher and later as a painter of portraits, mostly. A use...
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Monday, June 18, 2018

Alden McWilliams' "Twin Earths" Artwork

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The first, and perhaps the most famous, science-fiction comic strip was Buck Rogers which debuted in January 1929. Others of that genre fo...
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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Jes Schlaikjer, Forgotten Illustrator

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I hadn't known of Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer (1897–1982) until he was featured in Illustration Magazine a few months ago. For one thing, ...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Harrogate Travel Posters from the LNER

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During the 1920s and 1930s Britain had four major privately owned passenger railway systems that operated on a largely regional basis. That...
Thursday, June 7, 2018

In the Beginning: Paul Gauguin

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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) famously painted Postimpressionist, often Symbolist scenes of Brittany and French Polynesia using exag...
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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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