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, January 7, 2019

Elegance Depicted in Soviet Socialist Realism

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I'm pretty sure that even knowledgable art fans rarely give the Socialist Realism paintings of the Soviet Union much thought, if any. A...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Brangwyn, Cornwell and Murals

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Reader Paul Sullivan's comment to this post about San Francisco murals by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) inspired the present post. The c...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Fascist-Era Roman Hotel

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One of my pet peeves regarding the naming of architectural styles is the category "Fascist Architecture" (fragment of a Wikipedia ...
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Thursday, December 20, 2018

Floyd Davis: Successful Illustrator with No Training, Few Models

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In those olden times when American illustration was in flower, there was no clear path for continued success for artists who had attained a ...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Georges van Zevenberghen, Belgian Inspired by Chardin

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As the title of this post mentions, Georges Antoine Van Zevenberghen (1877-1968), was presumably inspired by Chardin's paintings. Well, ...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Superferry Supergraphics

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Large ferryboats carrying cars and passengers on comparatively long overnight runs are common in the Mediterranean and Baltic sea areas in E...
Monday, December 10, 2018

Brangwyn in San Francisco

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Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956), Wikipedia entry here , was British artist whose paintings and murals have always fascinated me. My post on tho...
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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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