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, April 8, 2019

Molti Ritratti: King George V

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King George V (1865-1936, reigned 1910-1936) was photographed many times, but seems to have had surprisingly few painted portraits made of h...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Mario Chiattone - Overshadowed by Antonio Sant'Elia

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Mario Chiattone (1891-1957) is not nearly as famous as Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916), who I wrote about here . Both were architectural ...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Vasily Yakovlev Echoes Ilya Repin

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When I was in Málaga, Spain in November I visited a branch of St. Petersburg's excellent  Russian Museum . It was holding a year-long (...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Perspective in Pompeii Paintings

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Our cruise ship docked at Naples and, I suspect, most of the passengers going ashore had signed up for tours of Pompeii and other sites on t...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Aleksandr Bubnov's Historical Pantings

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Aleksandr Pavlovich Bubnov (1908–1964) was, in my judgment, one of the most skilled of Soviet-era painters. And that's saying a lot, be...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Fashions and Automobiles by Leslie Saalburg

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Leslie Saalburg (1897-1974) was highly successful for most of his long illustration career. This despite the fact that his style changed li...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Gordon Grant, Illustrator and Marine Painter

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Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) began his career as an illustrator but gradually shifted to producing marine paintings and lithographs. A sho...
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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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