Faceoff #1: Vigée Le Brun v. Vouet
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
1755 - 1842
French
Lost to M. C. Escher in Round 1.
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Simon Vouet
1590 - 1649
French
Lost to Maurice de Vlaminck in Round 1.
Faceoff #2: Wadsworth v. Wallis
Edward Wadsworth
1889 - 1949
British
Pummeled by Édouard Vuillard in Round 1.
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Alfred Wallis
1855 - 1942
British
Lost to Andy Warhol in Round 1 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
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:
Le Brun, Wadsworth
Vigée Le Brun, Wadsworth
I mean, it's clearly "Le Brun, Wadsworth", right?
Le Brun. And after being wadsworth's lone supporter last round Im already tired of him. Wallis.
Le Brun and Wallis.
Susan: "#1 - Vigee le Brun #2- Wallis -- Exact contemporary Brits & really a tie. I like both second examples best, Wallis' first a bit better than Wadsworth's"
Morgan is right. It's clearly Le Brun... Oh, wait! Honest mistake! Morgan is half right, half wrong. It's clearly Le Brun, WALLIS. Easy typo.
Mariah abstained on this one, on Facebook.
Le Brun and Wallis, totally!
So here's the damage: Vigee-LeBrun skunks Vouet, or kind of does, except the abstention is kind of like an invisible half a vote for Vouet. Or maybe a negative half-vote? We shouldn't think that way though, since the abstention got us to quorum, which is nine. Similarly, Wallis beats Wadsworth by two votes, five to three with one member abstaining. In this case, the vote for nobody was as good as a vote for Wallis, since it created the conditions for victory. Your vote counts! Sometimes in unexpected ways! Vouet, incidentally, leaves us with the third worst voting record in the history of the Tournament. We shouldn't think less of him for that, though. He was probably better with a paintbrush than any of us. He was premier peintre du Roi, which is more than you can say!
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