1908 - 1963
Spanish; worked in Mexico
Her paintings are carefully drawn, making the astonishing stories or mystic legends especially convincing. Rejecting the male-dominated language of Surrealist doctrine, Varo often painted magnificent heroines busy with alchemical activities. A delicate figure may spin and weave tiny threads transforming them into musical instruments or fashion them into paintings of small birds. The settings are often medieval tower rooms equipped with occult laboratory devices. Figures wearing tattered garments may emerge from a forest of withered trees.... Varo borrowed from Romanesque Catalan frescoes and medieval architecture, mixed nature and technology, and combined reality and fantasy to create worlds that elude time and space.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 3 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .917.
- Finished First in Phase 2, Flight 1 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .500.
- Beat André Beauneveu in Round 1.
- Defeated Katsushika Hokusai in Round 2.
- Thumped Dutch Master Pieter De Hooch in Round 3.
- Crushed Andō Hiroshige in a Round 4 11-1 blowout.
- Beat Edward Hopper in Round 5 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
1889 - 1975
American
Throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s, Benton, who left New York in 1935 and settled in Kansas City, Missouri, became closely associated with a movement known as Regionalism, which exalted rural America and tended to disregard contemporary abstract art.
- The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
- Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 10, with a voting score of .818.
- Tied for Second in Phase 2, Flight 2, with a voting score of .364.
- Survived the Phase 2 Tiebreaker.
- Beat John Robert Cozens easily in Round 1.
- Beat Richard Long easily in Round 2.
- Crushed Lorenzo Lotto in Round 3.
- Tied with Andy Goldsworthy in his first attempt at Round 4. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Defeated Wassily Kandinsky in a Fourth Round Tiebreaker by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Beat Peter Severin Krøyer in Round 5 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
12 comments:
Varo.
Remedios Varo
Varo
I really love them both, but I love Remedios Varo more.
Susan says "Benton -- Although Varo has grown on me & I'm sorry to have to vote against her."
I wonder if they would have got along! I like Varo for much of the same reasons I like Varo, and would like to see her have a stronger profile in art history - although I guess that's true of Benton too. In any event, I vote Benton in this clash of the excellent underrated.
Aw man, can I vote for both? Okay, fine, I hate to vote against Varo, but I love Benton a bit more.
Tough call! But Varo.
VARO!
Benton
Oh, I'm going to go with Varo, though Benton has really grown on me!
Did you expect Remedios Varo in the Elite Eight? Golly, me neither! But here she is, flying high with a 7-4 Sixth Round victory. Her new year's resolution for 2019? "Beat Vincent Van Gogh in Round Seven."
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