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, January 31, 2019

Hugh Goldwin Rivière, Mid-Lever British Portraitist

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Hugh Goldwin Riviere (1869–1956) lived a long life and made a living as a portrait painter in the United Kingdom. The most detail I could f...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Konstantin Korovin: Sketchy Paintings

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Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (1861-1939) was a Russian painter with a free, sketchy technique influenced by Impressionism, though his sty...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Up Close: Frank Wootton's "Harts Over the Himalayas"

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Frank Anthony Albert Wootton (1914-1998) painted landscapes and horses, but for me he's noted for his illustrations of automobiles and a...
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Monday, January 21, 2019

Axel Törneman, Early Swedish Modernist Painter

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Johan Axel Gustaf Törneman (1880-1925) is credited in his Wikipedia entry as being "one of Sweden's earliest modernist painters....
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Honoring the Picture Plane: Sophistry in Action

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"Honoring the picture plane" was a big deal when I was in art school, though the idea has lost some of its punch in Postmodern tim...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Examples of Soviet Brigade Art

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Aside from perhaps a few religious icons and early modernists such as Kandinsky and Malevich, my college art history class ignored Russian a...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Millions for an early N.C. Wyeth Illustration

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The image above is an illustration titled "Hands Up," alternatively "Holdup in the Canyon" painted for C.P. Connolly’s ...
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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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