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, July 8, 2019

Another Alma-Tadema Painting Up Close

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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was long neglected, but now some of his paintings are auctioned for tens of millions of dollars. I wro...
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Thursday, July 4, 2019

Robert Cottingham's Signs

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A loyal reader (thanks, Bill) tipped me off to Robert Cottingham (born 1935) who is usually classed as a Photorealist. His Wikipedia entry...
Monday, July 1, 2019

John Marshall Gamble's California with Many Flowers

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John Marshall Gamble (1863-1957) was what we call a California Impressionist, one of a group of artists who painted landscapes in various pa...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Roger de La Fresnaye, Borderline Cubist

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Roger de La Fresnaye (1885-1925) paintings are in the collections of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art,...
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Monday, June 24, 2019

Charles H. Hubbell: Aviation Art from Late 1940s

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Charles H. Hubbell (1898-1971) was an illustrator specializing in depicting aircraft. He is probably best known for his calendar illustrati...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Anselm Feuerbach, Classicist and More

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Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880) died aged 50 after a life where he never lived in any one place for more than a few years. His career began ar...
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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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