Faceoff #1: Snyders v. Soulages
Frans Snyders
1579 - 1657
Dutch
Lost to David Smith in Round 1.
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Pierre Soulages
Born 1919
French
Lost badly to Sodoma in Round 1.
Faceoff #2: Soutine v. de Staël
Chaim Soutine
1893 - 1943
Russian; worked in France
Thumped on by Sir Stanley Spencer in Round 1.
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Nicolas de Staël
1914 - 1955
Russian; worked in France
Pounded by Léon Spilliaert in Round 1.
Vote for the two artists of your choice! Votes generally go in the comments, but have been known to arrive by email, by postcard, or in a sealed envelope.
Please note that you may vote only once in each face-off. Opining that both of the artists in one of the two face-offs is superior to the other is fine, but casting your votes for two artists in the same face-off is not permissible.
10 comments:
Can we vote to eliminate all four?
But if I have to pick, Soulages and de Stael
I vote for the abstract ones.
Snyders and Soutine.
What Morgan said.
Susan votes #1 --Snyder, #2 -- "Sorry to say I'd eliminate both these Russkies."
What Nichim said.
Soulages and de Staël. Easy peasy.
I find I dislike specialists in dead things. Soulages and de Stael.
Snyder and de Stael.
OK, let's wind this one up! Soulanges takes the top contest five votes to four (YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!), and de Staël takes the bottom one six to two with an abstention. Thanks for voting!
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