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, August 30, 2018

Some London Architecture 1912 and Recent

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Some European cities have chosen to keep large Modern and Postmodern buildings separated from their core areas that contain premodern archit...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Carl von Piloty, an Accessible Pompier

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Carl Theodor von Piloty (1826-1886) was a leading Munich academic painter during the third quarter of the 19th century (Wikipedia entry here...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Illustrator John Clymer Artifacts, Plus a Tom Lovell Bit

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Recently I was on a get-out-of-town jaunt and found myself driving through Ellensburg, a college town in central Washington where I noticed ...
Monday, August 20, 2018

Some Unfinished Thomas Lawrence Portraits

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I last wrote about Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) here . He was a prolific portrait painter, creating works both fine and mediocre, thou...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Who Was Illustrator August Bleser, Jr.?

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August Bleser, Jr. (1898-1966) was an illustrator active during the 1920s and 30s and probably beyond, for whom I can find no biographical i...
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Monday, August 13, 2018

A Graham Sutherland Churchill Portrait Survivor

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Several years ago I did a Molti Riratti post on Winston Churchill. One of the paintings was the one in the image above, a 1954 portrait ...
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Thursday, August 9, 2018

The rue Mallet-Stevens Then and Now

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A while ago I wrote about the French architect Robert Mallet-Stevens and included some period images of the rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris...
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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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