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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Left Bracket Round Four: Velázquez v. Van der Weyden!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Match is between Diego de Silva y Velázquez (4-1, 33-21, .611) and Rogier Van der Weyden (3-1, 30-21, .588). Quentin Massys (3-2-1, 37-37, .500) leaves us after losing big to Velázquez.

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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!!!
• Beat Quentin Massys in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination by a lot!

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Rogier Van der Weyden
1399ish - 1464
Dutch

• Came from behind to beat Benjamin West in Round 1.
• Came from way behind to take down Whistler in Round 2.
• Beat John William Waterhouse easily in Round 3.
• Lost to M. C. Escher in Round 4.

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Left Bracket Round Four: Whistler v. Wyeth!

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This All-American Left Bracket Fourth Round Match is between James Whistler (5-1, 55-28, .663) and Andrew Wyeth (3-1, 49-12, .803). Leaving the Tournament is Maurice de Vlaminck (4-2, 48-46, .514), who fell to Whistler in a close match.

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James Abbot McNeill Whistler
1834 - 1903
American; worked in Britain

• Defeated Sir David Wilkie in Round 1.
• Lost to Rogier Van der Weyden in Round 2, but there's no shame in that.
• Crushed Antoine Watteau in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Defeated Sir David Wilkie, again, in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination.
• Beat Édouard Vuillard in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Beat Maurice de Vlaminck in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Andrew Wyeth
1917 - 2009
American

• Defeated Jack Butler Yeats in Round 1.
• Crushed fellow American Grant Wood in Round 2.
• Trounced Frederic Leighton in Round 3.
• Lost to Michelangelo by a single vote in Round 4. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Left Bracket Round Four: Miró v. Haeckel!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Match is between Joan Miró (5-1-1, 44-31, .587) and Ernst Haeckel (4-1-1, 43-23, .652). Leaving the Tournament after losing to Miró is Portugal's Maria Elena Vieira da Silva (4-2-1, 41-40, .506).

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Joan Miró
1893 - 1983
Spanish

• Defeated Jean-François Millet by a single vote in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to one "Michelangelo" in Round 2.  YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Crushed Gerrard Dou in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Beat Jean-François Millet in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Tied with Quentin Massys in Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Brought down Claus Sluter in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Walloped Vieira da Silva in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.

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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.

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Left Bracket Fifth Round: Picasso v. O'Keeffe!

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This Left Bracket Fifth Round match pairs Pablo Picasso (6-1, 59-23, .720) against Georgia O'Keeffe (4-1, 44-18, .710).  Picasso won his way into the round via a sound thrashing of Camille Pissaro, whereas O'Keefe is on the rebound from a loss against Claude Monet. 

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Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Spanish

Pablo Picasso [was] one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century.

- Encyclopedia Britannica

• Beat Piero della Francesca easily in Round 1.
• Beat Piero di Cosimo in Round 2.
• Upset by Joachim Patenier in the Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Pisanello in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Defeated Piero di Cosimo a second time in a Left Bracket Third Round Elimination Grudge Match.
• Defeated Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.
• Crushed Camille Pissarro in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination.

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Georgia O'Keeffe
1887 - 1986
American

O’Keeffe has remained one of the most important and admired Modernist painters in the United States and one of its most celebrated icons. Through her consistently provocative and distinctively personal approach to image making, she created a body of work that conveys the integrity of her Modernist vision, her independent spirit, and, above all, her profound sensitivity to the vitality of natural forces.... In largely overcoming many critics’ gendered interpretations of her work, O’Keeffe also played a key role in disabusing the art community and the general public of the notion that gender was in any way a determinant of artistic competence or creativity. Thus, she helped to establish a new and significant space for female artists in a realm that has continued to be dominated by men.

- Encyclopedia Britannica

• Beat German Emil Nolde in Round 1.
• Walloped Australian Sir Sidney Nolan in Round 2.
• Prevailed against Ben Nicholson in Round 3.
• Beat Giovanni Paolo Pannini in the Fourth Round by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Fell to Claude Monet in Round 5.

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