Saturday, May 23, 2015

The Infinite Art Tournament, Round One: Moholy-Nagy v. Mondrian!

László Moholy-Nagy
1895 - 1946
Hungarian; worked in Germany and U.S.



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Piet Mondrian
1872 - 1944
Dutch



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Vote for the artist of your choice! Votes go in the comments. Commentary and links to additional work are welcome. Polls open for at least one month past posting.

13 comments:

Christine M. said...

Mondrian

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater said...

I guess the first guy, but I'm not crazy about it. Reminds me of the "Seinfeld" where George buys the picture of the guy who painted triangles in the hopes that the artist will die and the value will go up.

Maddy said...

Moholy-Nagy. I like Mondrian's one print but he repeated it too often.

Morgan said...

Moholy-Nagy!

Michael5000 said...

Moholy-Nagy, says Linda on Facebook.

DrSchnell said...

Moholy-Nagy, Batman!

mrs.5000 said...

Oh, definitely Mondrian for me.

boonec1974 said...

This was kind of a tricky one for me. I was at first leaning Mondrian, but the google search was not kind to him. It even made me wonder if any artist had quite the potential for a more boring career retrospective show. But in reading his wikipedia bio (I take my votes seriously!), I saw he actually did have some interesting early pieces that had colors that weren't, gasp, primary ones. I also do think his second one is quite cool and am not really much of a fan of any of Moholy-Nagy's.

I guess this is a long way of saying probably neither will get my vote next round, but that I'm going with Mondrian.

pfly said...

Oof what a choice. I'll throw my lot in with Mondrian.

Michael5000 said...

Susan votes for Moholy-Nagy.

Michael5000 said...

All the way with Piet! Mondrian for me!

Candida said...

Mondrian, I guess.

Michael5000 said...

Hmm, I never actually mentioned it back when, but this one was a 6-6 tie.