The Infinite Art Tournament Round 1: Cozens v. Cragg!
John Robert Cozens
1752 - 1797
English
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Tony Cragg
1949 -
English
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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.
Hmm, we've had so many superstars that it's almost refreshing to get off the A-list. Cozens isn't particularly exciting my interest here, and Cragg makes some interesting shapes. I'll go with the living guy!
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 7-7 tie! Cousins and Cragg are the fifth First-Round tie, and will therefore return in 2014 to take on fresh blood from the Play-In Subtournament.
Michael5000's Running Avatar has left Portland and is running generally east, out into the great big world.
May 19th -- Passing through The Dalles, Oregon.
May 12 -- The Avatar passes back into Oregon at Hood River and continues eastward on the Mark Hatfield Trail.
April 28 -- Passing by Beacon rock in the beautiful Columbia Gorge.
April 23 -- Standing on the corner in downtown Camas, Washington.
April 17 -- THE AVATAR IS HOME!!!
The Humanly Prowess -- since August 2009
May 19 -- 8.26 is a best-ever mileage for the 19th. I'm also at 14 consecutive Sundays, 1 short of the record, as well as 14 consecutive Saturdays.
April 27 -- A nice 9.06 mile run passes us over the best-April-ever mark and gives me an record of 11 consecutive running Saturdays.
April 25 -- By the by, I've currently tied the records for most consecutive Saturdays and most consecutive Wednesdays run. But who's counting.
April 20 -- 9.62 miles is a surprise all-time record for the 20th of the month!
April 14 -- 5.53 miles is an all-time record for a run resulting in hospital treatment for dog bite injuries!
April 6 -- 10.1 miles is the first ever double-digit run for April.
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May 16 -- Weigh-in for work weight-loss contest: 208
May 3 -- 208
March 10 -- 205.4
Feb 24 -- 206.0 -- but clearly we've got a little problem to work on here.
15 comments:
Cragg!
Cozens!
I just read about Cozens in a book by Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory. He gets my vote.
ooohhh.. Cragg!
I am going for Cozens' crags.
I was going to go for Cragg until I saw the little people in the Cozens paintings and that put it over the line in favor of Cozens.
I am also a sucker for trees in paintings.
After some additional googling, I'll say Cragg.
Cragg
Cragg by a nose.
Hmm, we've had so many superstars that it's almost refreshing to get off the A-list. Cozens isn't particularly exciting my interest here, and Cragg makes some interesting shapes. I'll go with the living guy!
Close, but I think I'll come down on the Cozens side.
A vote-by-mail for Cozens, with the note that "Cozens painted crags, but Cragg didn't paint cousins." I confess I sniggered.
Cragg, who has a kind of Nevelson thing going on that I like.
Cozens
"Oh, wow, there *are* little people!"
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a 7-7 tie! Cousins and Cragg are the fifth First-Round tie, and will therefore return in 2014 to take on fresh blood from the Play-In Subtournament.
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