The Infinite Art Tournament, Round 2 TIEBREAK: Haeckel v. Martin!
Ernst Haeckel and Franz Marc tied in their Second Round contest. With no previous tie waiting, that put them on hold, but only for as long as it took for me to check the other contest in their bracket pair. With Martin and Martini locking up 4-4 in a ballot marked by alarmingly low voter turnout, the stage was set for a close-knit tiebreaker. Instead of the winner of Haeckel/Marc going up against the winner of Martin/Martini, now we'll pair off the winners of Haeckel/Martin and Marc/Martini. Unless there are more ties, of course.
Beat Italian sculptor Marino Marini in Round 1. Tied with Simone Martini in his first attempt at Round 2.
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.
Those Martin paintings are pretty amazing, but I have a sweet spot for Haeckel. And there's some Haeckel I like much more than these four, fwiw, like:
Several of jellyfish, such as http://img03.deviantart.net/f11e/i/2009/137/4/5/trachomedusae_by_ernst_haeckel.jpg
And these things, whatever they are https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Haeckel_Stephoidea_edit.jpg/800px-Haeckel_Stephoidea_edit.jpg
And what the hell are these? Aliens? DMT entities? http://biolib.mpipz.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/Tafel_017_300.jpg
The guys from the top tie both trounced the guys from the bottom tie, which will, oddly enough, provoke an immediate rematch. More about that next week. For now, suffice to say that Haeckel advances on a vote of ten to two.
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Those Martin paintings are pretty amazing, but I have a sweet spot for Haeckel. And there's some Haeckel I like much more than these four, fwiw, like:
ReplyDeleteSeveral of jellyfish, such as http://img03.deviantart.net/f11e/i/2009/137/4/5/trachomedusae_by_ernst_haeckel.jpg
And these things, whatever they are https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Haeckel_Stephoidea_edit.jpg/800px-Haeckel_Stephoidea_edit.jpg
And what the hell are these? Aliens? DMT entities? http://biolib.mpipz.mpg.de/haeckel/kunstformen/Tafel_017_300.jpg
Haeckel
ReplyDeleteI'll jump on the Haekel bandwagon!
ReplyDeleteI like both! But Martin.
ReplyDeleteMartin for me!
ReplyDeleteHaeckel
ReplyDeleteThe opposite of Martin
ReplyDeleteHaeckel, though Martin is fun to look at.
ReplyDeleteMariah goes with Haeckel via FB.
ReplyDeleteHaeckel's carnival of diversity over Martin's bombast.
ReplyDeleteI'll go with Haeckel's precise scientific illustration over Martin's... sure, bombast is a reasonable word for it.
ReplyDeleteSusan votes for Haeckel -- "so different, hard choice."
ReplyDeleteThe guys from the top tie both trounced the guys from the bottom tie, which will, oddly enough, provoke an immediate rematch. More about that next week. For now, suffice to say that Haeckel advances on a vote of ten to two.
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