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"Semifinals" designates the Fourth to Seventh Rounds of the Infinite Art Tournament, and it's what we're going to be doing on weekends for a while. This is a Left Bracket Fourth Round Match between Hendrick Avercamp (5-1-3, 71-46, .607) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (3-1, 25-13, .658). Basquiat has been waiting for Avercamp's series of ties to be resolved since he lost to Balla in an October 2012 match. Leaving the Tournament this week after falling to Avercamp is Sofonisba Anguissola (3-2-1, 44-35, .557).
Hendrick Avercamp
1585-1634
Dutch
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1960 - 1986
American
- Defeated Georg Baselitz in Round 1.
- Decisively defeated Italian master Jacopo Bassano in Round 2.
- Beat German artist Max Beckman in Round 3.
- Lost to Giacomo Balla in Round 4.
Neither Georges Seurat and Egon Shiele had very long adult lives, so it's perhaps all the more impressive that they've both survived into Third Round Elimination. The first step for Seurat was getting past Gino Severini, the same guy who Shiele beat to make it into this match, so the two of them gave Severini the two losses that bump him out of the Tournament at 3-2; 28 vf, 24 va.
Also leaving this week is Jan van Scorel (3-2; 26 vf, 28 va).
Georges Seurat
1859 - 1891
French
Egon Schiele
1890 - 1918
Austrian
- Beat Christian Schad in Round 1.
- Beat Julian Schnabel easily in Round 2.
- Lost to Kurt Schwitters in Round 3 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Beat Gino Severini in the Left Bracket Third Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE STILL COUNTS!!!
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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.
Yves Tanguy
1890 - 1955
French
José Clemente Orozco
1883 - 1949
Mexican
- Defeated Bryan Organ in Round 1.
- Beat Claes Oldenburg in Round 2.
- Lost to Giovanni Paolo Pannini in Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
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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.
By longstanding tradition, Fourth Round matches are started on the first day of even numbered months, but it's time to shake things up a little bit. With both the First and Second Rounds complete, it's time to start wrapping up business in anticipation of the high-powered Sixth Round matches that can't be too far over the horizon! So, even though it's an odd-numbered month, here's a Fourth-Rounder to kick off the new year.
Jan Steen
1626ish - 1679
Dutch
- Defeated Frank Stella in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Won easily against Adriaen van Ostade in Round 2.
- Beat Graham Sutherland easily in Round 3.
Jean Tinguely
1928 - 1991
Swiss
- Defeated Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Round 1.
- Held off Dutch Master Hendrick Terbrugghen in Round 2.
- Came back from behind for a two-vote victory against Mexico's Rufino Tamayo in Round 3. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
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. Fourth-round matches are open for at least three months after posting.
Claes Oldenburg
Born 1929
Swedish-born American
Ben Nicholson
1894 - 1982
British
- Defeated Isamu Noguchi in Round 1.
- Fended off his contemporary Barnett Newman in Round 2.
- Lost to American Georgia O'Keeffe in Round 3.
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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.
As the tournament enters its later stages, if it appears that there will be an unresolved tie in a particular round, the final match of that round will not be held, but will be treated as if it were a tie, and its artists played against the artists from the unresolved tie...
The Unresolved Tie Rule was used for the first time on Saturday to bring us the unexpected match of Metsu v. Zorn. And may the best painter win! Today, we continue the madness with a match that might have been... well, I shan't editorialize. We continue the madness with Michelangelo v. Valázquez!
Michelangelo
1475 - 1564
Italian
Beat Sir John Everett Millais by a single vote in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Beat Spanish painter Joan Miró in Round 2.
Tied with Gabriel Metsu in his first try at Round 3.
Diego de Silva y Velázquez
1599 - 1660
Spanish
Tied with Victor Vasarely in his first try at the First Round.
Defeated Marcel Duchamp in the final match of Round 1.
Beat Francisco de Zurbarán in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
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.
