Left Bracket Round Four: Morisot v. Pannini!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Match is between Berthe Morisot (5-1, 39-28, .582) and Giovanni Paolo Pannini (3-1, 32-20, .615).  Leaving the Tournament after falling to Morisot is the Master of Moulins (4-2-1, 38-33, .535).

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Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
French

• Defeated Giovanni Battista Moroni in Round 1 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!
• Lost to Gustave Moreau in Round 2 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Henry Moore by a single vote in the Left Bracket Second Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!!!
• Beat Fernand Léger in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a wide margin.
• Snuck by Alphonse Mucha by a single vote in the Left Bracket Third Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat the Master of Moulins in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Giovanni Paolo Pannini
1692ish - 1765
Italian

• Defeated Parmigianino easily in the Toasted Cheese Sandwich Bowl.
• Skunked Palma Vecchio in Round 2.
• Squeaked past José Clemente Orozco in Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Georgia O'Keeffe in Round 4.

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Round Six: Monet v. Patenier

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Claude Monet

1840 - 1926
French

Claude Monet was a key figure in the Impressionist movement that transformed French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century. Throughout his long career, Monet consistently depicted the landscape and leisure activities of Paris and its environs as well as the Normandy coast. He led the way to twentieth-century modernism by developing a unique style that strove to capture on canvas the very act of perceiving nature.

- - The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Skunked! Skunked Henry Moore in Round 1
  
• Skunked! Skunked Fernand Léger in Round 2
  
• Beat Gustave Moreau easily in Round 3.
• Defeated Norman Rockwell in the Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Georgia O'Keeffe in Round 5.

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Joachim Patenier (aka"Patinir")

Patenier - engraving by Cornelius Cort

1485ish - 1524
Dutch

[He is] the first Western artist known to have specialized in landscape painting.... The basic elements of his landscape style—the high viewpoint overlooking vast tracts, where earthy brown foregrounds merge into woodland and meadow greens and again into the hazy blues of distant mountains—do not differ from those of his predecessors, particularly David. Yet the picturesque melancholy with which he invested the woods and rivers and the great ghostly rocks that jut up abruptly in the middle distance of such paintings as his Baptism of Christ (c. 1515) and his Charon Crossing the Styx (1520–24) strike a personal note that won Patinir instant success and many imitators.

- Britanica

• Skunked German Expressionist Max Hermann Pechstein in Round 1.
• Beat Francis Picabia in Round 2.
• Stunned Pablo Picasso with a one-vote victory in Round 3. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Defeated Camille Pissarro in the Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Upset Raphael in Round 5!

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Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination: Picasso v. Pissarro!

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This Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination Match pairs household name Pablo Picasso (5-1, 46-21, .687) and Camille Pissarro (4-1, 36-19, .655).  They reached this contest by defeating Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (3-2, 32-24, .571) and Paula Rego (4-2, 35-32, .522), respectively.

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Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Spanish

• Beat Piero della Francesca easily in Round 1.
• Beat Piero di Cosimo in Round 2.
• Upset by Joachim Patenier in the Round 3 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Pisanello in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Defeated Piero di Cosimo a second time in a Left Bracket Third Round Elimination Grudge Match.
• Defeated Pierre-Paul Prud'hon in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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Camille Pissarro
1831 - 1903
Caribbean-born; French

• Lambasted Andrea Pisano in Round 1.
• Came from behind to beat 15th century master Pisanello in Round 2.
• Won easily against Jackson Pollack in Round 3.
• Lost to Patenier in Round 4 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Defeated Paula Rego in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.

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The Infinite Art Tournament, Left Bracket Third Round: Sluter v. Leighton!

This is the final new match of the Left Bracket Third Round -- unless there are tiebreakers, and with twelve active contests there could well be tiebreakers.  Plucky, puckish Marcel Duchamp was the final artist to be knocked out in Second Round Elimination, falling to Claus Sluter 3 votes to 9.  Lord Leighton -- "Sir Tiesalot," as they call him backstage here at the Tournament -- ends up here after falling to Andrew Wyeth in the Right Bracket.

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Claus Sluter
1380ish - 1405
Dutch; worked in France.

• Pounded by Michiel Sittow in Round 1.
• Beat the 20th Century's David Alfaro Siqueiros in First Round Elimination.
• Trounced Paula Modersohn-Becker in the Left Bracket Second Round by a safe margin.
• Tied with Rubens in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Marcel Duchamp easily in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a single vote -- YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Frederic Leighton
1830 - 1896
British

• Tied with Fernand Léger in his first try at Round One.
• Tied with Paula Modersohn-Becker in his second try at Round One.
• Tied with Adriaen van Ostade in his third try at the First Round.
• Beat Spain's Antoni Tàpies in a fourth try at Round 1.
• Held off fifteenth century German Konrad Witz in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Andrew Wyeth in Round 3.

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The Infinite Art Tournament, Left Bracket Third Round: Rubens v. Sodoma!

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens
1577 - 1640
Flemish

• Crushed Théodore Rousseau in Round 1.
• Tied with Henri Rousseau in Round 2. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Estonia's Michiel Sittow in the Round 2 Tiebreaker. It was a single-vote margin! YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Bridget Riley in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Tied with Claus Sluter in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Francisco de Zurbarán in Left Bracket Second Round Elimination by a two-vote swing -- YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi)
1477 - 1549
Siennese

• Defeated living French artist Pierre Soulages in Round 1.
• Beat twentieth century sculptor David Smith in Round 2 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Lost to Sir Stanley Spencer in Round 3.

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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.