Thursday, May 31, 2018

Left Bracket Round Four: Morisot v. Pannini!





This Left Bracket Fourth Round Match is between Berthe Morisot (5-1, 39-28, .582) and Giovanni Paolo Pannini (3-1, 32-20, .615).  Leaving the Tournament after falling to Morisot is the Master of Moulins (4-2-1, 38-33, .535).


Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
French









Giovanni Paolo Pannini
1692ish - 1765
Italian







Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Round Six: Monet v. Patenier






Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
French
Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast. He led the way to twentieth-century modernism by developing a unique style that strove to capture on canvas the very act of perceiving nature.
- - The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  • Skunked! Skunked Henry Moore in Round 1
  • Skunked! Skunked Fernand Léger in Round 2
  • Beat Gustave Moreau easily in Round 3.
  • Defeated Norman Rockwell in the Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
  • Beat Georgia O'Keeffe in Round 5.










Joachim Patenier (aka"Patinir")
Patenier - engraving by Cornelius Cort

1485ish - 1524
Dutch
[He is] the first Western artist known to have specialized in landscape painting.... The basic elements of his landscape style—the high viewpoint overlooking vast tracts, where earthy brown foregrounds merge into woodland and meadow greens and again into the hazy blues of distant mountains—do not differ from those of his predecessors, particularly David. Yet the picturesque melancholy with which he invested the woods and rivers and the great ghostly rocks that jut up abruptly in the middle distance of such paintings as his Baptism of Christ (c. 1515) and his Charon Crossing the Styx (1520–24) strike a personal note that won Patinir instant success and many imitators.
- Britanica
  • Skunked German Expressionist Max Hermann Pechstein in Round 1.
  • Beat Francis Picabia in Round 2.
  • Stunned Pablo Picasso with a one-vote victory in Round 3. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
  • Defeated Camille Pissarro in the Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
  • Upset Raphael in Round 5!







Saturday, May 26, 2018

Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Picasso v. Pissarro!






This Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match pairs household name Pablo Picasso (5-1, 46-21, .687) and Camille Pissarro (4-1, 36-19, .655).  They reached this contest by defeating Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (3-2, 32-24, .571) and Paula Rego (4-2, 35-32, .522), respectively.


Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Spanish







Camille Pissarro
1831 - 1903
Caribbean-born; French






Tuesday, May 22, 2018

The Infinite Art Tournament, Left Bracket Third Round: Sluter v. Leighton!

This is the final new match of the Left Bracket Third Round -- unless there are tiebreakers, and with twelve active contests there could well be tiebreakers.  Plucky, puckish Marcel Duchamp was the final artist to be knocked out in Second Round Elimination, falling to Claus Sluter 3 votes to 9.  Lord Leighton -- "Sir Tiesalot," as they call him backstage here at the Tournament -- ends up here after falling to Andrew Wyeth in the Right Bracket.



Claus Sluter
1380ish - 1405
Dutch; worked in France.






Frederic Leighton
1830 - 1896
British




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Saturday, May 19, 2018

The Infinite Art Tournament, Left Bracket Third Round: Rubens v. Sodoma!



Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
Flemish






Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
1477 - 1549
Siennese
  • Defeated living French artist Pierre Soulages in Round 1.
  • Beat twentieth century sculptor David Smith in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
  • Lost to Sir Stanley Spencer in Round 3.




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