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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

The Infinite Art Tournament Left Bracket Second-Round Elimination GRUDGE MATCH: Fantin-Latour v. Fabritius!


In the Infinite Art Tournament, as you know, we have rules and we adhere to them.  Therefore, it doesn't matter that when they crossed paintbrushes the first time, Carel Fabritius didn't only crush Henri Fantin-Latour like a bug, he scored one out of only two (I believe) total shutouts to date.   Fabritius's momentum didn't get him past a second-round match with Feininger, however, and that's why he's here in the Left Bracket.  Meanwhile, Fantin-Latour pulled together some votes to knock out crowd least-favorites Fautriet and Lucio "the Knife" Fontana.  He's back for another drubbing, or an amazing reversal, or something in between. 

Leaving us with records of 1-2 are Fontana (12 cumulative votes for, 20 against) and Jean Fouquet (16-21).  Oh, and remember: the Grudge Match Rule states that a tie goes to the previous victor, so Fantin-Latour has to scrape together an actual win if he wants to be the one who moves on to tangle with Van Eyck in Round Three!


Henri Fantin-Latour
1836 - 1904
French





Carel Fabritius
1622 - 1654
Dutch

  • Skunked Henri Fantin-Latour in the Tournament's second-ever shutout in Round 1.
  • Lost to Lyonel Feininger by a two-vote swing in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
  • Made it past Jean Fouquet in theLeft Bracket Second Round by a safe margin.





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14 comments:

  1. Christine M.3:47 AM, June 03, 2014

    Carel Fabritius

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  2. Morgan7:40 AM, June 03, 2014

    The Fabulous Fabritius!

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  3. lamanyana10:45 AM, June 03, 2014

    Fabritius

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  4. Elizabeth12:13 PM, June 03, 2014

    I do like Fabritius' finch BUT I remain a fan of lovely still lifes. Still lives?

    Also, I prefer Fantin-Latour's peeved woman with lint brush to Fab's jolly woman with hankie.

    So Fantin-Latour for me, merci.

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  5. Ben1:09 PM, June 03, 2014

    I'm going to agree with Elizabeth on this one. Fantin-Latour.

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  6. Chuckdaddy6:17 AM, June 04, 2014

    The prestigious Fabritius

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  7. mrs.50003:55 PM, June 04, 2014

    I'm still with Fabritius.

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  8. pfly6:11 PM, June 04, 2014

    I like that Fabritius guy

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  9. Michael500011:08 AM, June 14, 2014

    A vote through the mails (which, as is often the case with these, comes from beautiful New York City), says "Fabritius: I get to vote for the Goldfinch. The crowds last winter at the Frick were so huge that I didn't get to see it.

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  10. Michael500011:09 AM, June 14, 2014

    And I feel that the third paintings strengthen Fantin-Latour a lot and weaken Fabritius a little, but not enough to flip my vote. Fabritius for the rematch!!

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  11. Nichim2:30 PM, June 18, 2014

    Fabritius. Those other ones bored me SOOOO MUCH.

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  12. Candida9:07 AM, August 12, 2014

    And yet again I'm torn. Fabritius, though.

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  13. Alison9:26 AM, September 12, 2014

    Fabritius

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  14. Michael50008:45 AM, April 10, 2016

    Well, in their second dust-up, Fantin-LaTour managed at least to scrape up a couple of votes. But, to nobody's excessive surprised, Fabritius laid a second beating on the floral specialist, who retires from the Tourney at this point. Fabritius rolls back into action on Tuesday!

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