Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Manet v. Haeckel!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match is between Édouard Manet (5-1, 54-28, .659) and Ernst Haeckel (4-1-1, 50-29, .633). They defeated Gabriel Metsu (3-2-1, 43-38, .558) and Joan Miró (5-2-1, 50-38, .568), in the regular Left Fourth Round.

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Édouard Manet
1832 - 1883
French

• Thumped on Minimalist Robert Mangold in Round 1.
  
• Overcame Andrea Mantegna in Round 2.
  
• Lost to living American Tim Ely in Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Theo Van Doesburg in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Defeated Franz Marc in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Beat Gabriel Metsu decisively in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Ernst Haeckel
1834 - 1919
German

• Finished Second in Phase 1, Flight 1 of the Play-In Tournament, with a voting score of .800.
• Finished Second in Phase 2, Flight 4 of the Play-In Tournament, with a voting score of .500.
• Slaughtered Theo Van Doesburg in Round 1. 
• Tied with Franz Marc in his first try at Round 2.
• Crushed John Martin in the Round 2 Tiebreaker.
• Beat Franz Marc in a Round 3 rematch by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Tim Ely in Round 4.
• Beat Joan Miró in the Left Bracket Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination GRUDGE MATCH: Turner v. Toulouse-Lautrec!

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This would be the Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match between J.M.W. Turner (4-1, 49-18, .731) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (6-1, 60-31, .659). They defeated Ghirlandaio (4-2-2, 53-42, .558) and Jean Tinguely (3-2, 29-28, .509), respectively, to get here.

It is a GRUDGE MATCH, ladies and gentlemen -- these two fellows met five seasons ago, in the halcyon days of June 2017, and Mr. Turner won that round.  This time around, the French painter needs to win outright.  A tie will go to Turner on the strength of his earlier win.

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J.M.W. Turner
1775 - 1850
British

• Crushed Cy Twombly in Round 1.
• Defeated Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Round 2.
• Beat James Tissot easily in Round 3.
• Lost to Jan Vermeer in Round 4.
• Beat Domenico Ghirlandaio decisively in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1864 - 1901
French

• Crushed Jean-François de Troy in Round 1.
• Lost to J.M.W. Turner in Round 2.
• Beat Tintoretto in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Beat Titian in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination.
• Beat Félix Vallotton in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Beat James Tissot in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Beat Jean Tinguely in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Left Bracket Fifth Round: Rockwell v. Raphael!

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This Left Bracket Fifth Round match pairs Norman Rockwell (5-1, 54-19, .740) against Raphael (4-1, 36-19, .655).  Rockwell arrived by way of a narrow win over over Berthe Morisot, and Raphael from a loss to Patenier. 

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Norman Rockwell
1894 - 1978
American

Rockwell was a careful craftsman with an ability to represent detail realistically. The subjects of most of his illustrations were taken from everyday family and small-town life and were often treated with a touch of humour. Though loved by the public, Rockwell’s work was dismissed by most critics as lacking artistic merit and authentic social observation.

- Encyclopedia Britannica

• Placed Third in Phase 1, Flight 5, with a voting score of .538.
• Placed Second in Phase 2, Flight 3, with a voting score of .500.
• Crushed Arthur Dove in Round 1.
  
• Walloped the Master of Moulins in Round 2.
• Blasted Alphonse Mucha in Round 3.
• Lost to Claude Monet in Round 4 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Mopped the floor with Claes Oldenburg in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.
• Beat Berthe Morisot in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Raphael
1483 - 1520
Italian

It would be impossible to say which artist is the greatest painter of portraits, but many would award the palm to Raphael.  He had that combination of qualities that the portrait painter needs: a keen awareness of the sitter's personality -- an insight into what makes the sitter "tick" -- combined with the great painterly skills that can create forms and colors, that of themselves alone would give us pleasure.

- Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces

• Defeated Allan Ramsay in Round 1.
• Beat Modigliani in Round 2.
• Trounced Paula Rego in Round 3.
• Got past Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in the Fourth Round.
• Upset by Patenier in Round 5.

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Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Klimt v. Kandinsky!

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In this here Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match, Gustav Klimt (6-1, 60-23, .723) takes on Wassily Kandinsky (4-1-1, 43-23, .652). In getting to this round, they knocked Georges de La Tour (3-2, 37-25, .597) and Frantisek Kupka (4-2-1, 42-35, .545), respectively, right out of the Tournament.

Klimt has impressive stats going into the match, but he has lost to Paul Klee, who tied up with Kandinsky when they crossed Tournament paths.  What will happen is, the artist who gets the most votes will win!

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Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Austrian

• Beat Franz Kline black and blue, mostly black, in Round 1.
• Lost badly to Paul Klee in Round 2.
• Crushed Pierre Bonnard in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Beat Franz Kline black and blue, again, in a Left Bracket Second Round Elimination Grudge Match.
• Beat sculptor Anish Kapoor in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Defeated Banksy in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Beat Georges de La Tour decisively in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Wassily Kandinsky
1866 - 1944
Russian; worked internationally

• Defeated Willem Kalf decisively in Round 1.
• Beat play-in photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in Round 2.
• Beat Anish Kapoor easily in Round 3.
• Tied with his old roommate Paul Klee in his first try at Round 4.
• Lost to Thomas Hart Benton in Round 4 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Frantisek Kupka in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Seurat v. Rubens!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match pits Georges Seurat (5-1, 45-24, .652) against Peter Paul Rubens (6-1-2, 68-35, .660). They have knocked Stanley Spencer (3-2, 38-23, .623) and Kurt Schwitters (3-2, 31-29, .517), respectively, out of the Tournament.

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Georges Seurat
1859 - 1891
French

• Defeated Gino Severini in Round 1.
• Trounced Richard Serra in Round 2.
• Lost to Charles Sheeler in Round 3 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Jan van Scorel soundly in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Beat Egon Schiele in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Beat Sir Stanley Spencer in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
Flemish

• Crushed Théodore Rousseau in Round 1.
• Tied with Henri Rousseau in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Estonia's Michiel Sittow in the Round 2 Tiebreaker. It was a single-vote margin! YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Bridget Riley in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Tied with Claus Sluter in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Francisco de Zurbarán in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a two-vote swing -- YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Sodoma easily in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Beat Léon Spilliaert, Belgian's other famous painter, in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Mopped the floor with Kurt Schwitters in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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