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, January 25, 2021

Danish Late-1800s Paintings by Carl Tomsen

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Carl Christian Frederik Jacob Thomsen (1847-1912) seems to have been a fairly important Danish painter in his day.  His brief English langua...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Frederick Sands Brunner, Yet Another Successful Unknown Illustrator

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Frederick Sands Brunner (1886-1954) specialized in illustration art featuring pretty young women.  He had at least one Saturday Evening Post...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Solitary Skyscrapers

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This architecture-related post deals with an American phenomenon of the early decades of the twentieth century.  It was solitary skyscraper ...
Monday, January 4, 2021

Barry Rowe Automobile Paintings

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Barry Rowe is a prominent automobile artist.  That is, he's an artist whose main subject matter is automobiles portrayed in plausible se...
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Monday, December 28, 2020

Georgia O'Keeffe's New York Buildings Paintings

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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is probably best remembered for her nature-related paintings made in New Mexico.  But earlier in her long c...
Monday, December 21, 2020

More Edwin Blashfield Paintings

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Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848-1936) was an important American muralist in the decades around the turn of the 20th century.   His Wikupedia ...
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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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