Jacob Jordaens
1593 - 1678
Dutch
Beat living artist Allen Jones after a tough fight in Round 1.
Frida Kahlo
1907 - 1954
Mexican
Crushed Donald Judd in Round 1.
Vote for the artist of your choice in the comments, or any other way that works for you. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Polls open for at least one month past posting.
15 comments:
Kahlo
If you give me a chicken, a cat, AND a satyr in the same piece of artwork, obviously I am going to vote for that artist.
So Jordaens.
Anyway, while I have always admired Kahlo as a person, I've never really been attracted to her work.
Kahlo
Kahlo!
Kahlo
The lighting in the Jordaens works is weird. The subject matter in the Kahlo works is weird.
Kahlo's weirdness gets my vote today.
An emailed vote for Jordaens!
Confession: I've never that into Frida Kahlo, because her work is all about Frida Kahlo, and I've just never been into Frida Kahlo. Jordaens is a helluva painter, working hard to spark my interest and reward my close attention, so I'm fine with giving him my vote.
The Dutch guy is very cool, but Frida Kahlo...let's just say I first discovered her at a Burning Man years ago and leave it at that.
Jordaens
Khalo.
Khalo
This is a very tight race for me -- I like both of them very much, but I also immediately sense a limit to both. Does that make sense? It's a visceral response of "Ooh, that's VERY good... although not truly magnificent."
Let's go Kahlo.
Jordaens grows on me whereas I like Kahlo less and less. A vote for Jordaens here.
And it's Kahlo on top at the end of voting, 8-5. She takes on Bouguereau in an odd matching, and Jordaens will take on somebody else in some other odd match, in a few weeks!
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