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 26, 2021

More Learning from Las Vegas

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About ten years ago I wrote about some Las Vegas interiors and murals .  Recently I returned to Vegas, and while my wife was busying hersel...
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Monday, April 19, 2021

Joaquín Sorolla's 1880s Paintings

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) was perhaps the most outstanding Spanish painter during the years 1895-1920.  His Wikipedia entry is h...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Molti Ritratti: Cleopatra

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Many posthumous images exist of Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 BC - 30 BC) -- Wikipedia entry here .  A few of them are presented below. Cle...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Ivan Kramskoy, a Major 19th Century Russian Painter

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Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887), commonly rendered as Kramskoy in English transliteration, was an important Russian painter during the...
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Monday, March 29, 2021

Philip de László: Pre- Age 40 Portraits

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Philip de László (1869-1937) was one of England's most prominent portrait painters during the first third of the 20th century.  Some con...
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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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