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Up Close: Dean Cornwell (1)
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Nelson Shanks: Successful Traditionalist
Nelson Shanks (b. 1937) never wanted to become an avant-garde, modernist painter. So he did what he could to learn traditional painting at a time when art schools such as the one I attended were...
View ArticleTeachout , MoMA and the History of Abstract Art
I usually enjoy reading what Terry Teachout (biographer, playwright, librettist and theater critic for The Wall Street Journal) has to say about subjects I'm familiar with (art) and those more distant...
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What is Art?
I suppose some people who got better grades than me in university and graduate school will snicker and chalk it up to intellectual inferiority, and maybe they'd be correct. Nevertheless, I'm willing to...
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Up Close: E.M. Jackson (1)
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1930s Spaceships
What should a spaceship look like?Back in the Moon exploration era, they came in two types. One was a conical re-entry vehicle, the other a boxy arrangement with spindly bits attached. The latter...
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Ludwig Hohlwein: Poster Illustration Master
Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949) in my opinion was one of the greatest poster illustrators, ever. He also was one of the better poster designers of the first half of the 20th century, though in this respect...
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Up Close: J.C. Leyendecker
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Alcuni Ritratti : Toto Koopman
Note that instead of the usual Molti Ritratti, this post has the ritratti count as Alcuni. That's because the star of this post, Catherina "Toto" Koopman (1908-1991), deserved to be depicted a lot, but...
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Up Close: Dean Cornwell (2)
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Unconvincing Matte Paintings
Nowadays computer graphics are used, especially if the entire film is digitized. But up to around 20 years ago, the production costs of movies were held down by building partial sets and filling the...
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De-Modernizing Modernist Architecture in Victoria
In my opinion, modernist architecture usually works best when it is in a non-modernist setting. That setting might be a large lot filled with trees, gardens and lawns if the building is a residence or,...
View ArticleBlogging Note: I Started a New Blog
As regular readers know, I enjoy posting about automobile styling. And as you can see on the right-hand panel, I even wrote an e-book on the subject (another one is on the way). I don't want to...
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Catalog Imitates Art
The image above is smaller than I would like, but it's the best I could do short of scanning the front cover of a mid-June catalog from Coldwater Creek, a Sandpoint, Idaho based clothing retailer. I...
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Up Close: N.C. Wyeth
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Antonio Sant'Elia, Visionary Draftsman
Antonio Sant'Elia (1888-1916) was a highly influential architect, almost none of whose designs were ever built. One reason why little was built was because he was killed during the Great War, age...
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Marcello Dudovich: Italian Poster Ace
Marcello Dudovich (1878-1962), despite his Slavic last name, was Italian, having been born in Trieste. But then, Trieste sits next to the South Slav region formerly known as Yugoslavia, which explains...
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Molti Ritratti: Gloria Swanson
Gloria Swanson (1899-1983) was a legendary movie star whose career was at its height during the 1920s and early 30s. An extensive biographical link is here.Today's Molti Ritratti is another switcheroo...
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Norman Bel Geddes' First City of the Future
Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958), shown above posing with a model city of the future, is perhaps most famous for his Futurama America in 1960 exhibit in the General Motors pavilion at the 1939-40 New York...
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Up Close: Mead Schaeffer (3)
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