Leaving us this week are Van Eyck (2-2; 22 vf, 27 va) and the Tsugouharu Foujita (2-2; 30 vf, 20 va). Foujita's vote ratio "batting average" of .600 trails only Antonello da Messina, Boccioni, Alma-Tadema, Joseph Cornell, and Oskar Kokoschka among exiting Tournament artists. He knocks Bierstadt out of his recently claimed sixth spot on that list.
Richard Estes
born 1936
American
- Beat Max Ernst on the last vote in Round 1. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Lost to Jan Van Eyck in a 2013 Round 2 match by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTED!!!
- Beat Edvard Munch with a late run in the Left Bracket Second Round.
- Beat Max Ernst handily in a Grudge Match.
- Snuck by Tsugouharu Foujita by a vote in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Carel Fabritius
1622 - 1654
Dutch
- Skunked Henri Fantin-Latour in the Tournament's second-ever shutout in Round 1.
- Lost to Lyonel Feininger by a two-vote swing in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
- Made it past Jean Fouquet in the Left Bracket Second Round by a safe margin.
- Crushed Fantin-Latour, again, in a Left Bracket Second Round Elimination grudge match
- Upset Jan Van Eyck in the Left Bracket Third Round.
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ReplyDeleteMan, this took me a while to decide. Fabritius.
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ReplyDeleteYes, tough one between two masters of detail. Estes' scenes don't radiate warmth the way Fabritius's do, but they find beauty and order in the banal chaos of a (now slightly dated) version of our own world. Go Estes!
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ReplyDeleteSusan votes for Fabritius -- "I love Estes but love the Goldfinch more.
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ReplyDeleteGo Estes! And not just because I'm running out of extant Fabritius paintings! I really dig Estes' photorealism. Along with Van Gogh, he's an artist who has literally changed the way I see the everyday world.
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ReplyDeleteIt went down to the last vote, but the most famous casualty of the Delft Powder Explosion takes the day on the last vote! Estes leaves the Tournament with a more-than-respectable 6-4 record!
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