The Brackets!

▼

Saturday, July 20, 2013

The Infinite Art Tournament, Round One: van der Goes v. van Gogh!

Hugo van der Goes
1440 - 1482
Dutch



-----

Vincent van Gogh
1853 - 1890
Dutch; worked in France



----

Vote for the artist of your choice!  Votes go in the comments.  Commentary and links to additional work are welcome.  Polls open for at least one month past posting.
at

17 comments:

  1. Elizabeth1:29 AM, July 20, 2013

    I like the komodo dragon interpretation of Satan in the first van der Goes, plus the strategically placed blue flower, and I find the cutout-decoupage-collage style of his second work intriguing, but I van der Go(es) with van Gogh this time.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Christine M.4:34 AM, July 20, 2013

    van Gogh

    ReplyDelete
  3. Everyone9:28 AM, July 20, 2013

    This guy's pretty good, depending on the matchup... (scrolling down) Oh, have fun in the left bracket, van der Goes.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Nichim10:45 AM, July 20, 2013

    I know that Van Gogh is so important that they even made a Doctor Who episode about him, but I'm going with van der Goes anyway. Maybe I'm just being contrary. But I really love the attitudes and straight-faced bizzareness in the van der Goes paintings.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Rebel10:59 AM, July 20, 2013

    Van Gogh... every single time!

    ReplyDelete
  6. pfly11:17 PM, July 20, 2013

    Heh, I was wondering what poor soul would come up with van Gogh. Poor van der Goes, bad luck!

    ReplyDelete
  7. mrs.500012:53 PM, July 21, 2013

    I too really like van der Goes, but gotta go with beloved supernova Vincent.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Morgan10:39 PM, July 21, 2013

    I wasn't a huge fan of Van Gogh until I saw "Wheatfield with Cypruses", which I thought was good enough to swing my opinion of the artist all the way in his favor! Van Gogh for me in this matchup.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Ben12:23 PM, July 22, 2013

    The conventional choice - van Gogh

    ReplyDelete
  10. Heather De Munn1:53 AM, July 23, 2013

    The starlight in the 4th painting inspires more religious feeling in me than the first two combined. Could have something to do with not being Christian. Anyway...Van Gogh!

    ReplyDelete
  11. lamanyana6:58 AM, July 23, 2013

    I think I have to go with van der Goes. I surprise myself a bit though - I've always thought of myself as a van Gogh fan, but he's not doing it for me today.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Unknown4:52 PM, July 26, 2013

    Gotta gogh with Vincent. By an ear.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Michael50008:49 AM, July 27, 2013

    Well done, Mr. Kemp -- I was wondering when somebody would claim that one.

    I'm more of a Van Gogh fan every year, and feel like Vincent has done as much to teach me to ~see~ as anyone with the possible exception of Ann Piper.

    Yet, van der Goes. Willya look at the humanity of those SHEPHERDS!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Candida6:14 AM, August 09, 2013

    I like van Gogh and van der Goes pretty much as well as the next person, which has been proven by the fact that most everything I wanted to say has already been said, and I agree with it all.

    I think I may vote differently when I'm on my laptop than when I'm on my desktop, but in any case the vote today tips towards van Gogh.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Maria Ontiveros3:41 PM, August 14, 2013

    Do you even really need to ask?
    Van Gogh of course.
    Rinda

    ReplyDelete
  16. Michael50003:59 PM, September 06, 2013

    I am in receipt of a postcard vote for van Gogh.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Michael50002:15 PM, October 13, 2013

    We've all been wondering how this one would go down: it's the Dutchman, by a whopping 13-3! Oh, wait, which Dutchman? Vincent Van Gogh! He loved color and he let it show.

    ReplyDelete

Voting in the Infinite Art Tournament? Awesome. And, please be aware that purely anonymous votes are not counted. You don't need to log in or use your real name, but you must identify yourself in some fashion for your vote to count.