1590 - 1661
Dutch
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Claude Lorraine
1600 - 1682
French; worked in Rome
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
The Infinite Art Tournament, Round 1: Claesz v. Claude Lorraine
Pieter Claesz
1590 - 1661
Dutch
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Claude Lorraine
1600 - 1682
French; worked in Rome
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Vote for the artist of your choice! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Polls open for at least one month past posting.
1590 - 1661
Dutch
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Claude Lorraine
1600 - 1682
French; worked in Rome
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Vote for the artist of your choice! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Polls open for at least one month past posting.
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16 comments:
Pieter Claesz. You know me, I can't resist a good vanitas.
Claesz! We need more random assemblages of things here.
Pretty much a tie, but I'll go with Claesz. I have quite a collection of photographs of "the mess on my table," so I can relate.
"Vanitas," huh? I learned a new word. I, too, have always been a fan of the genre and will vote for Claesz.
Pieter Claesz - I loves me some Dutch still life!
Never heard of either before. I will buck the trend here and say Claude Lorraine. I like those seascapes and ships.
This is one of the hardest matchups I've seen. I came into this knowing that the winner of this would likely be going up against Church (another artist I very much enjoy) and feeling sorry for said artist's likely second-round loss. However, both of these artists seem like they could give Church a run for his money (at this point I don't think I could tell the victor of either of the two hypothetical matchups).
Against each other, I'm having similar difficulties deciding which one I like better. On the top of the bracket, we have some of the most emotionally evocative still-lifes I've ever seen. On the bottom, we have landscapes that are both somehow serene and lively. I'm going to vote for Ciaesz, because I enjoy his darker take on the still-life genre (especially that skull painting! Wow!)
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I usually don't like still life, but hey, skulls! Still, gotta go with the Lorraine on this one.
Yeah, I wanna give Claude Lorraine plenty of credit for expanding the horizons (ha) of landscape painting. But I just really dig Pieter Claesz's grim tablescapes. "Death Comes for the Compass" and "The World Is Your Breakfast" are just both so lovely. He has my vote.
I like them both but I'm going with water, boats, and tall buildings instead of still, abstract art that generally appeals to me. Lorraine.
An email vote for "Claude Lorraine over Claesz."
Claesz--the upside-down glass, and the quill with the dried ink on the nib, and the key on the ribbon--definitely compelling!
Hmm, it would appear that I forgot to vote on this one. I will throw in with "Claude" or at most "Claude Lorraine," as he is called in proper art-dork parlance. One is not supposed to call him "Lorraine." I'm just that messenger.
And Claesz more or less walks into the end zone, beating up on Claude 10-5.
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