Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Infinite Art Tournament Second-Round Elimination: van der Goes v. Gontcharova!


As Vincent van Gogh piled up votes in his opening rounds, he beat up on Hugo van der Goes in Round 1 and Natalia Gontcharova in Round 2. Both of them have stayed alive so far in the left-hand side, but only one can emerge from this contest to meet the long thin man: Giacometti.

Leaving the tournament this week are Jan van Goyen (1-2, 16 vf, 24 va)
and Paul Gauguin (1-2-2, 33 vf, 34 va).  Gauguin is probably one of the best-known artists to have been voted out of the Tournament to date.



Hugo van der Goes
1440 - 1482
Dutch






Natalia Gontcharova
1881-1962
Russian; worked in France






Vote for the artist of your choice in the comments, or any other way that works for you. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Polls open for at least one month past posting, but likely much longer.

12 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Gontcharova without a doubt. I like her work, and I still particularly like the shards of blue and green.

Christine M. said...

van der Goes

Morgan said...

Gontcharova for me, too!

Ben said...

I like Gontcharova's bicyclist, but not so much her others (as shown here). van der Goes gets my vote.

mrs.5000 said...

I really like Goncharova. I wish...hey! my wish is granted! The library has a book of her work! Published 2010. And that is delightful, because I saw a few of her paintings a few years back, and couldn't find that much on her at the time. May she go far!

pfly said...

It took a bit of googling to decide on Gontcharova.

Chuckdaddy said...

Gontcharova

DrSchnell said...

van der Goes

lamanyana said...

van der Goes

Michael5000 said...

I'm sticking with van der Goes.

Candida said...

van der Goes

Michael5000 said...

OH HOW PAINFUL TO THROW GONTCHAROVA OUT ON HER EAR!!! But I try not to reconsider my vote while tallying, and besides I find van der Goes' collation of the dead accuracy in human figuring with hallucinatory religious elements pretty darn compelling.

Anyway, the Dutch fellow takes the contest six votes to five. He's turned into the great slayer of modernists; having felled Gauguin and Gontcharova, how will he do with Giacometti?