Cast your votes for up to four of these seven artists by Friday July 19. For clarifications, consult the Ladder of Art FAQ.
Week #32 was a lot like Week #31, and the debut artists all fell right off the ladder without getting any traction as all. Will Week #33 be the same-old-same-old, or will there be a dramatic break in the pattern?
Last Week's Results
This Week's Contest
Hiram Powers
1805 - 1873
American
Tournament Record: Tied for 420th. Lost to Nicolas Poussin and Jacopo Della Quercia. 6 votes for, 13 votes against (.316).
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
1789 - 1869
German
Tournament Record: Tied for 420th. Lost to Palma Vecchio and Parmigianino. 6 votes for, 13 votes against (.316).
Gerrit van Honthorst
1590 - 1656
Dutch
Tournament Record: Placed 423rd. Lost to Pieter De Hooch, beat Hans Holbein, then lost to Hokusai. 11 votes for, 24 votes against (.314).
Carl Andre
b. 1935
American
Tournament Record: Placed 428th. Beat Jacobo Amigoni, but then lost to Albrecht Altdorfer and Albers. 12 votes for, 27 votes against (.308).
- Placed 3rd in Week #31.
- Placed 3rd in Week #32.
William Merritt Chase
1849 - 1916
American
Tournament Record: Tied for 439th. Beaten by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and Christo. 6 votes for, 14 votes against (.300).
- Placed Second, Week #26.
- Tied for First, Week #27.
- Placed First, Week #29.
- Placed First, Week #31.
Willem Kalf
1622 - 1693
Dutch
Tournament Record: Tied for 454th. Lost to Wassily Kandinsky and Richard Parkes Bonington. 7 votes for, 18 votes against (.280).
- Tied for First in Week #22.
- Placed Second in Week #24.
- Tied for Third in Week #25.
- Placed Fourth in Week #26
- Placed Third in Week #27.
- Placed Second in Week #28.
- Tied for Second in Week #29.
- Placed Fourth in Week #30.
- Placed Fourth in Week #31.
- Placed Fourth in Week #32.
Charles-François Daubigny
1817 - 1878
French
Tournament Record: Placed 505th. Lost to Salvador Dali and Aelbert Cuyp. 4 votes for, 26 votes against (.133).
- Finished First in Ladder Week #2.
- Finished First again in Week #4.
- ...and again in Week #6.
- ...and in Week #8.
- ...and in Week #10.
- ...and in Week #12.
- ...and in Week #14.
- ...and in Week #16.
- ...and in Week #18.
- ...and in Week #20.
- Tied for First, Week #22.
- Placed Third in Week #24.
- Tied for First, Week #25.
- Tied for First, Week #27.
- Tied for Second, Week #29.
- Placed Second, Week #30.
- Placed Second again, Week #31.
- And again, Week #32.
Cast up to four votes in the comments by Friday morning!
8 comments:
van Honthorst! Chase, Kalf, Daubigny
Powers, Overbeck, van Honthorst, Daubigny.
Powers is of course amazing, but boring somehow to me. Maybe his people are too perfect? Kalf and Daubigny will get my votes again. Van Honthorst's chipper chiaroscuro does not totally jibe, but I love a good Dutch house scene, so he gets my 3rd vote. And I'll cast a vote against Overbeck's cartoonish take on the Renaissance
Andre, Chase, Kalf, and Daubigny.
Powers, Chase, van Honthorst, and Daubigny.
Yee haw! It's nice to have another chance to vote for Overbeck, I was disappointed by how quickly he went out, even if he was kind of an anachronism. Van Honhorst is good clean fun, or at least good fun. I'll stick with the spare intellectualism of Andre too, though. And Chase, because Chase.
"von Honthorst, Chase, Kalf, Daubigny," says Susan via email.
Van Honthorst and Chase are the two standouts for me in this bunch.
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