Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Play-In Artist SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 3


Phase One Rules:
  1. You may cast votes for up to four artists.  
    • One vote per artist per person.
  2. Since play-in artists were nominated by your peers in the IAT community, including myself, courteous and affirmative voting is in order
    • Which is to say, no baggin' on the aesthetic sensibilities of the nominators.
  3. Full rules, procedures, and anticipated timeline for the Play-In SubTournament are available on the Play-In SubTournament page, if I've gotten around to updating it with the recent revelations.


Phase 1, Flight 1 closes Sunday, September 23.
Phase 1, Flight 2 will be open for voting for... oh, another month and change.
Flight 3 will be open for approximately two months.



Mark Ryden
1963 -
American






Pieter Saenredam
1597-1665
Dutch






Remedios Varo
1908 - 1963
Spanish; worked in Mexico






The Artist(s) of the Chauvet Cave
30,000 or more years ago
Aurignacian






Alex Grey
1953-
American






Andrew Logan
1945 -
English






Geertgen tot Sint Jans
c. 1465 - c. 1495
Dutch






Luis Royo
1954 -
Spanish






Vote for up to fours artists! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. This poll will be open for approximately two months past posting.

15 comments:

Christine M. said...

Remedios Varo, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Andrew Logan, & the Cave People

lamanyana said...

Remedios Varo
Andrew Logan
Alex Grey
The Artist(s) of the Chauvet Cave

Morgan said...

Varo, Grey, Sint Jans, Saenredam

mrs.5000 said...

Pieter Saenredam!
Remedios Varo
and
Geertgen tot Sint Jans!

I guess I'm allying myself with the past, here. But not the most distant past! I think no one else captures the sense of a large interior space quite like Saenredam.

Elizabeth said...

Saenredam
Varo
Sint Jans
the Chauvet artists

Chuckdaddy said...

Saenredam
Logan
Sint Jans

Chuckdaddy said...

and Varo

pfly said...

Mark Ryden
Remedios Varo
Alex Grey
Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Michael5000 said...

Well, very much Geertgen tot Sint Jans. And... Ryden. And I guess I'll go with Saenredam and Varo, just for the heck of it.

DrSchnell said...

Varo
Grey
Sint Jans
Saenredam

Candida said...

Yay, Remedios Varo! Big vote there.

The artists of the Chauvet Cave, and a happy nod towards whoever made this nomination.

Geertgen tot Sint Jans, definitely,

and Saenredam.

Michael5000 said...

A vote-by-mail for the Chauvet Cave artists. In regard to Candida's happy nod, ~I~ made that nomination, and I made it here.

Voron X said...

Sint James? Really, people? His stuff looks like SO much that's already in the Tournament. Seems almost redundant... Please give me Ryden, Royo, Varo & Grey.

That second Royo selection is really unfortunate. Not his best work AT ALL. I think others are much nicer, deeper, more mature and better executed, like this:

http://wallpaper.metalship.org/en/wallpaper/The_Wait-184.html

or this:
http://www.phombo.com/uncategorized/luis-royo-tattoos/922574/full/

or even this (currently framed in my house) http://my.opera.com/iamwolfiespirit6309/albums/showpic.dml?album=4585132&picture=69200672

Michael5000 said...

MR. X IS BACK!!! And grouchy about an artist who painted perhaps my favorite single image of all time! But that's democratic art appreciation for ya.

Welcome back, Voron -- you've been missed!

Michael5000 said...

And, voting is closed in this round! Advancing to Phase 2: Remedios Varo (who will be the top seeded play-in artist to date), Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Yay!), and Pieter Saenredam -- the straight Mrs.5000 ticket!