1727 - 1788
English
Beat Renaissance Florentine Taddeo Gaddi in an amazing come-from-behind victory in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Paul Gauguin
1848 - 1903
French; worked in France and Tahiti
Took care of business versus Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in Round 1.
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At first I was going to vote for Gauguin, but then I kept looking back at the Gainsborough works, and so I think I'm going to vote for Gainsborough. Maybe I'd better look up some more representatives pieces from both first - hang on a minute ...
ReplyDeleteNope, still Gainsborough.
Gauguin
ReplyDeleteGauguin will be a tough call for me in certain matchups. I'm surprised by how little I like some of his paintings and how blah I find others. What's interesting (at least to me) is it doesn't even seem to be a period of his I'm into. Many of the Tahiti paintings I don't like, but then Midday Nap ranks pretty up there for me. And some of his symbolist (or is Synthetist or is it Cloissonism...) paintings don't do it for me, but Yellow Christ does.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, do I go for the technically superior and consistent Gainsborough or the occasionally home run hitting Gauguin? I'll take Hack Wilson this round, but I'm not sure how far Gauguin will go for me.
I'm not a huge Gauguin fan, but enough to vote Gauguin this time.
ReplyDeleteChuckdaddy said it all. "So yeah, do I go for the technically superior and consistent Gainsborough or the occasionally home run hitting Gauguin?" is a perfect assessment of both painters. Still... I am going to vote Gainsborough for the Blue Boy alone. Once I owned a three-foot-tall ceramic Blue Boy. But I swapped it to the dean of Wacky Portland College for my diploma, as part of a time-honored graduation ritual.
ReplyDeleteChuck, you're going to have to clarify "Hack Wilson" for me; I'm not sure whom you're voting for.
ReplyDeleteChance, I didn't know you went to Wacky Portland. How's the football team looking this year?
Gainsborough isn't my favorite ever, but I like him better than Gauguin, who usually leaves me cold.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I like the use of color and light in the first two Gauguins, the third one really does nothing for me. And the more I look at it, the perspective in the first one (especially the arm of the figure on the left) kind of bothers me. So, with a nod to Chuckdaddy, I, too, am going to go for the "technically superior and consistent" Thomas Gainsborough.
ReplyDeleteThey don't have a football team.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I asked!
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, a WPU alumnus friend and I will on occasion amuse ourselves by making up cheers for the (non-existent) team. GO BIG MAROON!
ReplyDeleteWho are you calling a maroon? We're not maroons! Some of us are highly qualified baristas.
ReplyDeletegauguin. his colors are so-o beautiful, sue
ReplyDeleteI wish I still had that ceramic Blue Boy.
ReplyDeleteGaugin is not someone I'd invite over for dinner, but I really love his yummy blocks of color. Unlike Ben, my favorite here is the bottom picture, because of the landscape, and because I'm just less squeamish about his cultural voyeurism in Brittany than in Tahiti. He definitely gets my vote over Gainsborough.
ReplyDeleteGaugin - lively colors; Gainsborough is just too stuffy.
ReplyDeleteRidna
Gainsborough, and Alison votes for the same
ReplyDeleteCall me old-fashioned, but I'm going to keep rolling with Gainsborough. Having seen some Gaugin in person, I no longer think of him as "bad." But I haven't been convinced he's up to Gainsborough's snuff, either.
ReplyDeleteGauguin
ReplyDeleteHere's a postcard vote for Gauguin.
ReplyDeleteGainsborough for me - he's a bit of a one trick pony but he's good at his one trick. Gauguin has never excited me.
ReplyDeleteWow this one is close, so I should probably clarify my vote. I'm not sure why giving obscure baseball references and saying "how little I like" when I meant "how much I like" would throw you off (or the 2 other voters who used me as a reference to vote differently than me). But yeah. Hack Wilson was a baseball player who had a couple of the greatest baseball seasons ever, with records not broken until the steroid era, but also some very bad seasons. And that's who gets my vote, Guaguin that is.
ReplyDeleteAnd it's a TIE, ladies and gentlemen, a TIE, as Gauguin and Gainsborough pile up votes -- eight apiece -- but are never quite able to shake off the other guy!
ReplyDeleteThere's an earlier Round 2 tie sitting around waiting for resolution, so we will move immediately into tiebreak action on Tuesday. Maybe they'll both play through! Maybe... not!
Thanks as always for your superb voting.