Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Play-In Artist SubTournament: Phase 1, Flight 9


Phase One Rules:
  1. You may cast votes for up to four artists.  
    • One vote per artist per person.
  2. 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.
  3. Full rules, procedures, and anticipated timeline for the Play-In SubTournament are available on the Play-In SubTournament page.


Phase 1, Flight 7 will be open until noon Pacific Time, Saturday, March 23.
Phase 1, Flight 8 will be open until April 21.
Phase 9 will be open for approximately two months.



Robert Maguire
1921-2005
American






Gunther Forg
German
Born 1952






James Avati
1912-2005
American






Jean Baptiste Oudry
1686-1755
French







Pavel Filonov
1883-1941
Russian





Baptiste Debombourg
? (contemporary)
probably French






Clifford Tjapaltjarri
1932-2002
Australian





Pierre Alechinsky
Born 1927
Belgian; works in France





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.

16 comments:

Christine M. said...

Pierre Alechinsky,
Clifford Tjapaltjarri,
Baptiste Debombourg,
Jean Baptiste Ourdry

Morgan said...

Maguire, Avati, Ourdry, Debombourg

Chuckdaddy said...

Tjapaltjarri!!!!
Alechinsky!!
Filinov!
Ourdry?

Elizabeth said...

Let's put Ourdry, Filinov, and Debombourg in the mix.

Chuckdaddy said...

And I (and by "I" I mean wikipedia) believe it's Filonov and that he's Russian.

Michael5000 said...

Thanks, Chuck

pfly said...

Jean Baptiste Oudry (wikipedia spells it that way)
Pavel Filonov
Baptiste Debombourg
Clifford *Possum* Tjapaltjarri

Michael5000 said...

Thanks, p. I was wondering why people kept writing "Ourdry" in their votes...

MulchMaid said...

Oudry
Forg
Alechinsky
Filonov

And I'm completely confused by the Sub Rules - but that's probably me.

Michael5000 said...

The MulchMaid is voting! Awesome.

It's not just you! The tournament rules are absurdly convoluted! Think of it as all part of the festive atmosphere.

mrs.5000 said...

Filinov--I've seen some of his work in person, and it's awesome in tiny-multi-faceted ways that are hard to describe.

Oudry looks good, and I'll also go with Tjapaltjarri and Alechinsky.

Michael5000 said...

Filinov is one of my faves in person, although it's been hard to find good images to do him justice.

I think the commercial artists in this flight are quite good, particularly Avati but Maguire as well. I'm with them.

And, I'll join the Oudry landslide as well.

lamanyana said...

Oudry
Filonov
Tjapaltjarri
Alechinsky

Candida said...

Maguire
Avati
Oudry
Debombourg

And may I just say that although I am not a fan of all of Debombourg, after looking a bit on the net, I thought that some of his pieces had a fun whimsy that really appealed to me.

Michael5000 said...

A vote-by mail has arrived with the following slate:

Robert Maguire
James Avati
Oudry
Filinov.

Michael5000 said...

It's the first ever unanimous decision as Oudry sweeps the voting for a powerful 1.000 rating and a guaranteed top seed in his second flight.

Pavel Filinov is second, with .727.

Then -- and this will really complicate things for me, but not for you -- there's a three-way tie between Debombourg, Tjapaltjarri, and Alechinsky. They all have ratings of .455.

Thanks for voting! Or, if you didn't vote, catch up to the current contests and vote on them!