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, September 25, 2023

Anastasia Vostrezova, Painter of the Ballet

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Anastasia Vostrezova, born 1981, is a Russian representational painter known for her depictions of ballet dancers.  A brief biographical not...
Monday, September 18, 2023

Bartow Van Voorhis Matteson - 1920s Illustrator

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Bartow Van Voorhis Matteson (1894-1984) was an illustrator active in the 1920s who might have transitioned to Fine Arts later during his lon...
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Monday, September 11, 2023

George Frederic Watts: Some Portraits

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George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was an important 19th century British artist, as is noted here . Among many other things, that Wikipedia...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Edwin Lord Weeks, American Orientalist

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Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903) had wealthy parents and so was able to study art and visit exotic places.  His Wikipedia entry notes: ...
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Monday, August 28, 2023

Paul Gerding, Automobile Advertising Illustrator

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Paul Gerding (1895-1983) made a number of very nice illustrations for automobile advertisements, especially in the late 1920s to mid-1930s...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Louis Fancher, Illustrator

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Louis Fancher (1884-1944), Wikipedia entry here , seems to have experienced a career peak in the 1910s decade if Internet images of his work...
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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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