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, June 10, 2019

Gustave De Smet: Impressionism to Modernism

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Gustave Franciscus De Smet (1877-1943) was a Belgian painter who helped found the Flemish Expressionist school of painting. A sketchy Wikip...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Some Picasso Landscapes

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) dabbled in many art media, but his subject matter was mostly people. The next rung down included still lifes and...
Monday, June 3, 2019

John Smart, Miniaturist

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Sir Henry Clinton - 1777 I normally pay no attention to miniatures. But the above portrait of British General Henry Clinton that I noticed...
Thursday, May 30, 2019

Fred Cole's Suggestively Incomplete Car Illustrations

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Fred Cole (1893-1983) was an illustrator who seems to have specialized in automobile advertising. I could find little about him on the inte...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

Jules Guérin, Illustrator and Muralist

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Jules Vallée Guérin (1866-1946) illustrated books, delineated architecture and painted murals. He is best-known (to me, anyway) for his ren...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Charles Edward Chambers, Highly Competent Illustrator

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Charles Edward Chambers (1883-1941) was a highly skilled and successful illustrator, though not as famous as some others active 1915-1940 w...
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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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