The upper left hand side of page three of the brackets has been a mess for a couple of years. Today we resolve the old Gaddi/Gericault tie -- both of them survived their tiebreakers! -- but that won't really do much for us until the ancient tie from First Round Elimination #17 gets taken care of. Someday!
In the meantime, it's Gaddi v. Hockney!
Taddeo Gaddi
c.1300 - 1366
Florentine
- Lost to Thomas Gainsborough in Round 1 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Bested hard-to-pronounce sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska in First Round Elimination.
- Tied with Théodore Géricault in the Left Bracket Second Round.
- Crushed Pietro Longhi in the Left Bracket Second Round.
David Hockney
Born 1937
British; works in United States
- Beat Howard Hodgkin in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
- Tied with Switzerland's Ferdinand Hodler in Round 2.
- Lost to Jacques-Louis David in the Round 2 tiebreaker.
- Beat Gentile da Fabriano in the Left Bracket Second Round by a safe margin.
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.
11 comments:
Hockney
I think Gaddi.
Hockney
Hockney, I guess.
Hockney
Elliott and I are both going for Gaddi.
Hockney
Susan says: "Hockney: not just because I saw a good show of his drawings at a gallery recently."
Oh! Oh, dang. Um... Um... Gaddi, I think.
Gaddi by golly.
Late votes for Gaddi got him within one vote of Hockney... which is another way of saying 'Hockney takes the match!' He'll move on to see what he can do against Fabritius in Round Three. And Gaddi is off to the locker room of the arts.
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