1894 - 1978
American
Placed Third in Phase 1, Flight 5, with a voting score of .538.
Placed Second in Phase 2, Flight 3, with a voting score of .500.
Crushed Arthur Dove in Round 1.
Master of Moulins (probably Jean Hay)
late fifteenth century
French
Defeated Robert Motherwell in Round 1.
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Ah yup, Norman Rockwell.
Tough call. And I'm trying to divorce myself from dinging Rockwell for familiarity, but I just really love those Moulins.
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Susan writes: "At first I thought -- this is the weirdest pair ever. But then I looked again at all the pictures & thought -- hold on, both artists are ultra-realists, among the most realistic the competition has ever presented. Both putting forward their clear-cut idea of their time, also in both cases idealized. So, I'll vote for MofM, but this is why the Tournament is so much fun."
That middle M of M kind of rocks my socks off, but so does the top Rockwell. Not so much for the narrative line, nor for the economy with which it creates not only an entire diner but something of an entire town around it, but mostly for the hard-bitten counterman, a guy who has tasted disappointment and failure and, though he is not above smirking at the innocence of a child, is not without kindness while he's doing it.
Rockwell by a nose.
Rockwell.
You still don't find Rockwell in a lot of the Serious Art Books, but he's doing just fine here in the Infinite Art Tournament. He has just dispatched the Master of Moulins, nine votes against two.
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