As Vincent van Gogh piled up votes in his opening rounds, he beat up on Hugo van der Goes in Round 1 and Natalia Gontcharova in Round 2. Both of them have stayed alive so far in the left-hand side, but only one can emerge from this contest to meet the long thin man: Giacometti.
Leaving the tournament this week are Jan van Goyen (1-2, 16 vf, 24 va) and Paul Gauguin (1-2-2, 33 vf, 34 va). Gauguin is probably one of the best-known artists to have been voted out of the Tournament to date.
Hugo van der Goes
1440 - 1482
Dutch
- Lost to somebody named Vincent van Gogh in Round 1.
- Smeared Arshile Gorky in First Round Elimination.
- Beat somebody named Paul Gauguin in the Left Bracket Second Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Natalia Gontcharova
1881-1962
Russian; worked in France
- Defeated Arshile Gorky in Round 1.
- Fell to Vincent Van Gogh, although not without a fight, in Round 2.
- Made it past Jan van Goyen in the Left Bracket Second Round.
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, but likely much longer.
12 comments:
Gontcharova without a doubt. I like her work, and I still particularly like the shards of blue and green.
van der Goes
Gontcharova for me, too!
I like Gontcharova's bicyclist, but not so much her others (as shown here). van der Goes gets my vote.
I really like Goncharova. I wish...hey! my wish is granted! The library has a book of her work! Published 2010. And that is delightful, because I saw a few of her paintings a few years back, and couldn't find that much on her at the time. May she go far!
It took a bit of googling to decide on Gontcharova.
Gontcharova
van der Goes
van der Goes
I'm sticking with van der Goes.
van der Goes
OH HOW PAINFUL TO THROW GONTCHAROVA OUT ON HER EAR!!! But I try not to reconsider my vote while tallying, and besides I find van der Goes' collation of the dead accuracy in human figuring with hallucinatory religious elements pretty darn compelling.
Anyway, the Dutch fellow takes the contest six votes to five. He's turned into the great slayer of modernists; having felled Gauguin and Gontcharova, how will he do with Giacometti?
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