The "Fight for Their Right" contests will be open only until Friday, June 26.
#1 Joseph Wright (aka Wright of Derby)
1734 - 1797
English
Tied for Fifth in Phase 1, Flight 5, with a voting score of .385.
#2 Theo Jansen
born 1948
Dutch
Finished Second in Phase 1, Flight 5, with a voting score of .692.
Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 1, with a voting score of .417.
Finished last in the Phase 2 Tiebreaker, with a voting score of .291.
#3 Geertgen tot Sint Jans
1465 - 1495
Dutch
Placed Second in Phase 1, Flight 3, with a voting score of .750.
Placed Third in Phase 2, Flight 6, with a voting score of .364.
Vote for one artist only in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome.
13 comments:
Damn, in any other contest I would have voted for Joseph Wright and SCIENCE!!! (and volcanoes) but I really, really like Theo Jansen's ambulating shell-creatures and seahorse-vaned millipedes. I suppose this is still a vote for SCIENCE!!! after all, come to think of it.
In my opinion, Wright earns his right! I'll vote for Mr. of Derby.
Wright, though a tough call!
The right choice is Wright.
Jansen's sculptures are freaking amazing. They GO, you know! But you know what? I'm casting my vote for Geertgen tot Sint Jans, whose images are super tugging at my heartstrings.
I'll go for the odd oblongly-shaped people of Sint Jans.
I'll go with this Wright guy, although I like them all.
I'm surprising myself here by voting for Wright, but another day, it'd be Jansen.
I like all these artists, too! But I'll give my nod to Joseph Wright.
Sint Jans
I really like Wright of Derby, but everybody knows that I'm a Gertgen tot Sint Jans man through and through, and there's no use hiding it.
via the US Postal Service, there's a vote for Geertgen tot Sint Jans!
This one came down to a single vote, with Wright of Derby defending his right from Gertgen Tot Sint Jans 6 votes to 5. One vote went to the universally praised wind-robots of Jansen. Wright therefore dusts himself off after his Play-In flop, and readies himself to jump back into the fray in three or four years.
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