Left Bracket Round Four: Kupka v. Kandinsky!

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"Semifinals" designates the Fourth to Seventh Rounds of the Infinite Art Tournament.  This is a Left Bracket Fourth Round Match between Frantisek Kupka (4-1-1, 39-29, .574) and Wassily Kandinsky (3-1-1, 37-20, .649). Leaving the Tournament after falling to Manet is Frank Stella (4-2-1, 44-31, .587).

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Frantisek Kupka
1871 - 1957
Czech; worked in France

• Defeated Wilfredo Lam in an unusual Cuban/Czech IAT Round 1 pairing.
• Beat beachcomber Andres Amador in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
• Lost to Georges de La Tour in Round 3, again by a single vote.
   YOUR VOTE COUNTS AGAIN!!!
• Mauled Raoul Hausmann in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Tied with Florentine master Domenico Ghirlandaio in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Defeated Frank Stella in a Left Bracket Third Round Elimination tiebreaker by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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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!!!

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Left Bracket Round Four: Manet v. Metsu!

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"Semifinals" designates the Fourth to Seventh Rounds of the Infinite Art Tournament.  This is a Left Bracket Fourth Round Match between Édouard Manet (4-1, 43-22, .662) and Gabriel Metsu (3-1-1, 37-27, .578). Leaving the Tournament after falling to Manet is Franz Marc (3-2-1, 43-30, .589).

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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.

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Gabriel Metsu
1629 - 1667
Dutch

• Defeated Mario Merz in Round 1.
• Defeated Play-In Tournament artist Jean Baptiste Oudry in Round 2.
• Tied with Michelangelo(!) in his first try at Round 3.
• Beat Anders Zorn by a single vote in the Round 3 tiebreaker. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Henri Matisse in Round 4.

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Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Morisot v. Rockwell!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match pits Berthe Morisot (6-1, 47-33, .588) against Norman Rockwell (4-1, 48-15, .762). They have knocked Giovanni Paolo Pannini (3-2, 37-28, .569) and Claes Oldenburg (4-2, 43-36, .544), respectively, out of the Tournament.

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Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
French

• Defeated Giovanni Battista Moroni in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
• Lost to Gustave Moreau in Round 2 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Henry Moore by a single vote in the Left Bracket Second Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!!!
• Beat Fernand Léger in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a wide margin.
• Snuck by Alphonse Mucha by a single vote in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat the Master of Moulins in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Giovanni Paolo Pannini in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Norman Rockwell
1894 - 1978
American

• 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.

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Left Bracket Round Four: Rubens v. Schwitters!

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"Semifinals" designates the Fourth to Seventh Rounds of the Infinite Art Tournament.  This is a Left Bracket Fourth Round Match between Rubens (5-1-2, 59-30, .663) and Schwitters (3-1, 26-20, .565).  Leaving the Tournament after losing to Rubens is Léon Spilliaert (4-2, 38-34, .528).

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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.

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Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
German

• Beat fifteenth century German Martin Schongauer easily in Round 1.
• Defeated Jan van Scorel in Round 2.
• Beat Egon Schiele in Round 3 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Charles Sheeler in Round 4.

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The Infinite Art Tournament Left Bracket Third-Round Elimination: Velázquez v. Massys!

Today's match closes down the Left Bracket Third Round, which means that the eight bracket sheets on which the bulk of the Infinite Art Tournament was played out are now all closed.  It's basically all endgame from here on out.  Mostly, the paintings should be pretty easy on the eyes.

Leaving us this week -- the last guys to be heartbroken that they didn't make it to the semis -- are Wright of Derby (3-2; 38 vf, 20 va), whose remarkable .655 voting "batting average" puts him in third place among the 438 artists who have left the Tournament, and Lord Frederick Leighton (2-2-4; 47-52, .475), who will almost certainly be the artist who tied the most times.

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Diego de Silva y Velázquez
1599 - 1660
Spanish

• Tied with Victor Vasarely in his first try at the First Round.
• Defeated Marcel Duchamp in the final match of Round 1.
• Beat Francisco de Zurbarán in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Michelangelo in Round 3.
• Crept past Wright of Derby by a single vote in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Quentin Massys
1465ish - 1530
Dutch

• Defeated Masolino in Round 1.
• Decisively defeated Jan Davidsz de Heem in Round 2.
• Lost to Henri Matisse in Round 3.
• Tied with Joan Miró in the Left Bracket Third Round -- YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Lord Leighton in a second try at the Left Bracket Third Round.

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