The Ladder of Art -- Week #21

Cast your votes for up to four of these seven artists by Friday April 26.  For clarifications, consult the Ladder of Art FAQ.

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Last Week's Results

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This Week's Contest

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Annibale Carracci
1560 - 1609
Italian

Tournament Record: Tied for 454th. Beaten by Carlo Carrà and George Catlin.

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Sir Edwin Landseer
1802 - 1873
British

Tournament Record: Tied for 457th. Beat Nicolas Lancret before losing to Georges de La Tour and Thomas Cole.

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Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723 - 1792
British

Tournament Record: Tied for 461st. Lost to Renoir and Guido Reni. 6 votes for, 17 votes against (.261).

• Placed Second in Week #20

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Bernardino Luini
c. 1481 - 1532
Milanese

Tournament Record: Tied for 461st. Lost to Mabuse, AKA Jan Gossaert, and to Aristide Maillol. 6 votes for, 17 votes against (.261).

• Tied for First in Week #19.

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Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Lithuanian; worked in the U.S.A.

Tournament Record: Tied for 467th. Lost to Jean-Étienne Liotard and John Constable. 6 votes for, 18 votes against (.250).

• Placed Second in Ladder Week #16. 
• Tied for First in Week #17.
• Placed Fourth in Week #19. 
• Tied for Third in Week #20

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Sassetta
1392ish - 1450
Siennese

Tournament Record: Tied for 469th. Lost to Roelandt Savery and Juan Sánchez Cotán. 5 votes for, 15 votes against (.250).

• Tied for First in Week #15.
• Tied for First in Week #17.
• Placed Third in Week #19. 
• Tied for Third in Week #20.

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Edward Wadsworth
1889 - 1949
British

Tournament Record: Placed 490th. Lost to Édouard Vuillard and Alfred Wallis. 4 votes for, 16 votes against (.200).

• Tied for Third in Ladder Week #6.
• Tied for First in Ladder Week #7. 
• Tied for First in Week #9. 
• First Place, Week #11. 
• In a three-way tie for First in Week #13. 
• In a three-way tie for First in Week #15. 
• Third Place in Week #17. 
• Placed Second in Week #18. 
• Tied for First in Week #19. 

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Cast up to four votes in the comments by Friday morning!

Left Bracket Seventh Round: Degas v. Homer

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This Left Bracket Seventh Round match pairs Edgar Degas, who made it all the way to the "Elite Eight" before falling to Pieter Brughel, with Winslow Homer.  After an early loss, Homer has now won more matches (11) and received more votes (104) than anyone else in the Tournament.  Will he receive enough votes to win this match?  You'll help decide!

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Edgar Degas
1834 - 1917
French

Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of “Impressionist,” preferring to call himself a “Realist” or “Independent.” Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members. Like the Impressionists, he sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plein-air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his academic training. - The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Whupped it up on sculptor Richard Deacon in Round 1.
  
• Stomped on Eugène Delacroix in Round 2.
  
• Crushed countryman Honoré Daumier in Round 3.
• Bested Caravaggio in Round 4.
• Beat Albrecht Dürer in a tough Round 5 match.
• Beat Gustave Caillebotte in Round 6 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Pieter Bruegel in the Elite Eight round.

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Winslow Homer
1836 - 1910
American

...this great painter of the American scene did not lose the edge when it came to the probity and drama of his art.... In works such as Fox Hunt (1893) and Right and Left (1909), Homer dealt with profound issues of existence, while in his paintings of the pounding surf of the Maine coast he brought nature to center stage.

- Smithsonian

• Beat the great German expatriate Hans Holbein in an unusually high-octane Round 1 match.
• Lost to Dutch master Pieter De Hooch by a single vote in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Crushed André Beauneveu in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Decisively beat Katsushika Hokusai in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination.
• Crushed Ferdinand Hodler in the Left Bracket Third Round by another two-vote swing.
• Beat Pieter De Hooch with a dramatic grudge match reversal in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Defeated Frida Kahlo in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.
• Beat the unbeatable Adolphe William Bouguereau in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination.
• Held off Peter Severin Krøyer's comeback attempt in the Left Bracket Fifth Round.
• Beat Frederick Church in Fifth Round Elimination. 
• Defeated Thomas Eakins in the Left Bracket Sixth Round. 
• Beat Artimesia Gentileschi in Sixth Round Elimination.

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The Ladder of Art -- Week #20

Cast your votes for up to four of these seven artists by Friday April 19.  For clarifications, consult the Ladder of Art FAQ.

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Way back in Week #9 of the Ladder of Art, we had our first artist who had actually won a match in the main Tournament.  Pietro da Cortana, who managed to eke out a 1-2 record from a 7-24 vote count, placed 484th initially and then quietly dropped six rungs down the Ladder to 490th.

After that outlier, starting this week we will start to see more artists that did not go two-and-out.  Adam Elsheimer, one of four artists taking their first step on the ladder today, managed a tie on his way to a 10-26 voting record. 

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Last Week's Results

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This Week's Contest

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Adam Elsheimer
1578 - 1610
German; worked in Italy

Tournament Record: Placed 458th. Beaten by Thomas Eakins; tied with Sir Jacob Epstein before falling to Edvard Munch. 10 votes for, 26 votes against (.278).

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Antoine Bourdelle
1861 - 1929
French

Tournament Record: Placed 459th. Beaten by Louise Bourgeois and Dieric Bouts. 7 votes for, 19 votes against (.269).

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Georg Baselitz
1938 -
German

Tournament Record: Tied for 460th. Lost to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Pompeo Batoni. 5 votes for, 14 votes against (.263).

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Sir Joshua Reynolds
1723 - 1792
British

Tournament Record: Tied for 461st. Lost to Renoir and Guido Reni. 6 votes for, 17 votes against (.261).

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Jacques Lipchitz
1891 - 1973
Lithuanian; worked in the U.S.A.

Tournament Record: Tied for 467th. Lost to Jean-Étienne Liotard and John Constable. 6 votes for, 18 votes against (.250).

• Placed Second in Ladder Week #16. 
• Tied for First in Week #17.
• Placed Fourth in Week #19.

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Sassetta
1392ish - 1450
Siennese

Tournament Record: Tied for 469th. Lost to Roelandt Savery and Juan Sánchez Cotán. 5 votes for, 15 votes against (.250).

• Tied for First in Week #15.
• Tied for First in Week #17.
• Placed Third in Week #19.

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Charles-François Daubigny
1817 - 1878
French

Tournament Record: Placed 505th.  Lost to Salvador Dali and Aelbert Cuyp. 4 votes for, 26 votes against (.133).

• Finished First in Ladder Week #2.
• Finished First again in Week #4.
• ...and again in Week #6.
• ...and in Week #8.
• ...and in Week #10. 
• ...and in Week #12. 
• ...and in Week #14. 
• ...and in Week #16.
• ...and in Week #18.

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Cast up to four votes in the comments by Friday morning!

Left Bracket Seventh Round: Caillebotte v. Varo

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The first of four Left Bracket Seventh Round match pairs Caillebotte, who has just scored an upset against Albrecht Dürer, against Remedios Varo, who has lost her "Elite Eight" match against Vincent van Gogh.  Caillebotte and Varo are perhaps the least widely known artists still alive in the Tournament, meaning that one Cinderella story ends here -- but the other will continue at least one more round.

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Gustave Caillebotte
1848 - 1894
French

Impressionists such as... Gustave Caillebotte enthusiastically painted the renovated city, employing their new style to depict its wide boulevards, public gardens, and grand buildings.... Caillebotte’s 1877 Paris Street, Rainy Day exemplifies how these artists abandoned sentimental depictions and explicit narratives, adopting instead a detached, objective view that merely suggests what is going on. - The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Defeated mobile pioneer Alexander Calder in Round 1.
• Held out against Edward Burra in Round 2.
• Fought to a draw with Caravaggio in Round 3.
• Crushed Corot in the Round 3 tiebreaker.
• Blasted Mary Cassatt in a Round 4 15-0 blowout.
• Beat Frederick Church easily in Round 5. 
• Lost to Edgar Degas in Round 6.
• Upset Hieronymus Bosch in the Left Bracket Sixth Round. 
• Upset Albrecht Dürer in Sixth Round Elimination by a single vote.  YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Remedios Varo
1908 - 1963
Spanish; worked in Mexico

Her paintings are carefully drawn, making the astonishing stories or mystic legends especially convincing. Rejecting the male-dominated language of Surrealist doctrine, Varo often painted magnificent heroines busy with alchemical activities. A delicate figure may spin and weave tiny threads transforming them into musical instruments or fashion them into paintings of small birds. The settings are often medieval tower rooms equipped with occult laboratory devices. Figures wearing tattered garments may emerge from a forest of withered trees.... Varo borrowed from Romanesque Catalan frescoes and medieval architecture, mixed nature and technology, and combined reality and fantasy to create worlds that elude time and space.

- National Museum of Women in the Arts

• Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 3 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .917.
• Finished First in Phase 2, Flight 1 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .500.
• Beat André Beauneveu in Round 1.
• Defeated Katsushika Hokusai in Round 2.
• Thumped Dutch Master Pieter De Hooch in Round 3.
• Crushed Andō Hiroshige in a Round 4 11-1 blowout.
• Beat Edward Hopper in Round 5 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Thomas Hart Benton in Round 6.
• Lost to Vincent Van Gogh in Round 7.

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