Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Infinite Art Tournament, Round One: Dou v. Dove!

Gerrard Dou
1613 - 1675
Dutch




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Arthur Dove
1880 - 1946
American




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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.

13 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Dove, for the first work especially.

Morgan said...

Both are rather nice in their own way, but Dove's use of color and shape is really aesthetically pleasing and almost calming in a way. I'll vote Dove!

lamanyana said...

Dove

Christine M. said...

I have always been fond of Dove.

mrs.5000 said...

I like Dove. But when you put his work against Dou's, it seems so light and sketchy it might float away. I'll take the luminous details of a fully rendered scene, and the Dutch mastery of Dou.

Michael5000 said...

An email vote for Dou. "Dove has done much better than that second one, but Dou, whom I never heard of before, is such a nice genre painter."

Jenners said...

Dove

Chuckdaddy said...

Dove

pfly said...

Dou

Michael5000 said...

Dou for me, thanks. They are works of enormous skill and charm, but they also benefit from their age -- it makes them windows into our common humanity with those of many generations back.

Dove is also quite good.

PB said...

Dove intrigues me, but I find myself in agreement with the thinking of the 5000s here. A vote for Dou.

Candida said...

Dou.

Michael5000 said...

And Dou's thrilling comeback run ends the contest in a tie! That will make Dove and Dou the final pair of artists to be pitted against the survivors of the play-in tournament. You'll see them again, in about a year.

This match is closed for voting.