Phase One Rules:
- You may cast votes for up to four artists.
- One vote per artist per person.
- Since play-in artists were nominated by your peers in the IAT community, including myself, courteous and affirmative voting is in order
- Which is to say, no baggin' on the aesthetic sensibilities of the nominators.
- Full rules, procedures, and anticipated timeline for the Play-In SubTournament are available on the Play-In SubTournament page.
Phase 1, Flight 3 will be open until noon PST, Saturday, November 24th. (4 Frimaire 221)
Phase 1, Flight 4 will be open for voting for about one more month.
Flight 5 will be open for approximately two months.
Markus Linnenbrink
born 1961
German; works in U.S.
Dorothea Lange
1895-1965
American
Keith Haring
1958-1990
American
Nicholas Roerich
1874-1947
Russian
Theo Jansen
born 1948
Dutch
Joseph Wright
1734 - 1797
English
Helen Levitt
1913-2009
American
Norman Rockwell
1894-1978
American
Vote for up to fours artists! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. This poll will be open for approximately two months past posting.
Linnenbrink, Roerich, Wright, Rockwell
ReplyDeleteOn second thought, swap out Wright for Jansen
ReplyDeleteLevitt, Jansen (watch the videos - this is sculpture I can get with), Roerich (new love), Linnenbrink.
ReplyDeleteLange
ReplyDeleteJansen
Roerich
Levitt
Linnenbrink
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Roerich
Levitt
Jansen, Roerich, Rockwell, Wright.
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Rockwell
Lange
Lange, Rockwell and Roerich
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit of a painful one for me, because I like five of 'em very much. I think I'll vote Morgan's original ticket -- Linnenbrink, Roerich, Wright, Rockwell -- and stand firm.
ReplyDeleteGotta get a vote in for Kutztown homeboy Keith Haring (whose folks live just down the road a ways).
ReplyDeleteRockwell
Jansen (though you've got to see videos of these in action to get The full effect).
Roerich
Now I find this phase to be the most difficult of the play-in rounds; I like them all. But whom do I like the best...
ReplyDeleteWell, I like Lange so much I am in utter disbelief that she's not making everyone's ballot. Her first might be one of my favorite photographs ever, and the second tells such an interesting open-ended story. Linnenbrink's opener also blew me away.
But then who? I'm going to cast a vote for Haring even though I totally get why he's now only up to 2 votes. I just feel he pulled off something special. Or maybe they're just glorified dancing stick figures. Whatever, I just love that these happy figures are what came, for many, to be the art that stood for (against?) the 80's US Aids epidemic. They're so optimistic. And Roerich is very cool (and gets extra points for factoring into the 1940 and 1948 presidential elections).
And maybe the order I saw them in biased me.
Wright, Lange, Levitt, Linnenbrink
ReplyDeleteAlliterations, yay
I'm with Chuckdaddy--it's not just Lange, it's OMGLange (rhymes with "orange").
ReplyDeleteAnd Rockwell. You can make fun of me for vapid tastes if you want (although I'd rather you didn't), but I love his ability to present humanity's lovable foibles.
Jansen.
And, between Wright and Roerich, that's pretty tough. I love Roerich's colors and sense of magic (and the guy does love his snowy mountains), but I'm going to go with Wright after scoping out further images. They really ought to have given that littlest girl a kerchief or scarf or something, though.
We've got us here a vote-by-postcard for the following:
ReplyDeleteLange, Roerich, Jansen, and Wright. "It's so hard to leave out quintessential New Yorker Helen Levitt, but I love Wirght of Derby."
And, it's all over. Nicholas Roerich -- who was an alternate on the play-in list, replacing somebody for whom I couldn't find a good set of images -- came out on top of the crowd. Theo Jansen claimed second, and once again the tournament structure is gummed up by a tie for third: Norman Rockwell and Dorothea Lange are both still in contention, in some form.
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