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, May 9, 2019

Carlo CarrĂ : Futurist for a Short While

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Carlo CarrĂ  (1881-1966) was one of the first Futurist painters, Futurism being a 1910s Italian movement that, in painting, stressed depicti...
Monday, May 6, 2019

The Carefully Observant Rowland B. Wilson

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Rowland B Wilson (1930-2005) was an animator, an ad agency art director and a cartoonist. He is probably best known to the general public (...
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Thursday, May 2, 2019

"Eric" et sa femme

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Carl Erickson (1891-1958) was Vogue magazine's ace fashion illustrator in Paris from about 1925 to 1940 and continued his career at the ...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

William Orpen's Great War Portraits

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William Orpen (1878-1931), who I wrote about here , is best known as a portrait painter. Biographical information is here . During the Gr...
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Thursday, April 25, 2019

Giacomo Balla, the Oldest Futurist

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Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), whose most famous painting Dinamismo di un cane al guinzaglio --Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash -- 1912, shown abo...
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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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