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Saturday, April 14, 2012

The Infinite Art Tournament, Round 1: Brancusi v. Braque

Constantin Brancusi
1876 - 1956
Romanian; worked in France.





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Georges Braque
1882 - 1963
French




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19 comments:

  1. Morgan6:45 AM, April 14, 2012

    Close! I like 'em both. I'll vote Brancusi.

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  2. mrs.50007:43 AM, April 14, 2012

    Braques for me! Mmmm, I especially like that second one, my favorite flavor of cubism--the bright, fun, collagy still-life.

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  3. Christine M.8:45 AM, April 14, 2012

    Braque

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  4. Nichim9:07 AM, April 14, 2012

    Brancusi. Out of these four pieces of art I only like the stone kissy twins.

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  5. mcl10:48 AM, April 14, 2012

    Brancusi for sculpture Braques for painting

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  6. Michael500012:44 PM, April 14, 2012

    Tsk tsk, mcl, you know it doesn't work like that...

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  7. Elizabeth12:55 PM, April 14, 2012

    Braque, hands down.

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  8. lamanyana11:01 PM, April 14, 2012

    Brancusi, for the kissy twins.

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  9. Candida7:50 AM, April 15, 2012

    Brancusi. I like the idea that those starkly alone Easter Island figures get to be together (in my mind, whatever Brancusi intended).

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  10. Jenners4:39 PM, April 15, 2012

    Brancusi … just for that first one. So appealing.

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  11. pfly4:44 PM, April 15, 2012

    Good match up. While I like Braque I really like Brancusi. He did a ton of awesome stuff. Also, I've always gotten a chuckle out of how US Customs refused to let his ''Bird in Space'' sculpture into the US as "art", apparently not believing it could be art. It was admitted as "Kitchen Utensils and Hospital Supplies". Haha!

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  12. pfly4:54 PM, April 15, 2012

    BTW, a professor in an art history class I once took made a big deal out of the nail and its shadow in that first Braque. Something about cubism exploding space into fractured shards but the whole held together with that one nail. Something about the nail representing traditional painting clinging desperately to the crazy cubism. Yadda yadda, something like that...

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  13. Chuckdaddy10:47 PM, April 17, 2012

    Braque

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  14. Michael50002:38 PM, April 18, 2012

    An emailed vote for Braque.

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  15. Michael50002:38 PM, April 18, 2012

    And my own vote goes for Braque too. Mmm, Cubism....

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  16. Alison9:33 PM, May 30, 2012

    Braque for me!

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  17. Michael50002:31 PM, June 30, 2012

    Yoiks, it's a tie! That means that Brancusi and Braque stay in Round 1, and will eventually take on play-in artists as they enter the tournament! Look for them again in approximately Summer 2014!

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  18. Chuckdaddy6:42 AM, March 18, 2013

    Uh oh. Clerical error? I believe Braque actually won this 7-6. The IAT's Stolen Election?

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  19. Michael500012:52 PM, March 20, 2013

    Chuckdaddy is quite right. Braque actually won this match, 7-6.

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