"Semifinals" designates the Fourth to Seventh Rounds of the Infinite Art Tournament. This is a Left Bracket Fourth Round Match between Domenico Ghirlandaio (4-1-2, 49-32, .605) and J.M.W. Turner (3-1, 39-14, .736). Leaving the Tournament after a beating from Ghirlandaio is Graham Sutherland (3-2, 30-33, .476).
Domenico Ghirlandaio
1449 - 1494
Florentine
- Tied with Lorenzo Ghiberti in his first try at Round One.
- Beat Raoul Hausmann in the Round 1 tiebreaker.
- Laid a beating on Oskar Kokoschka in Round 2.
- Lost to Peter Krøyer in Round 3 by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
- Beat Thomas Cole in the Left Bracket Third Round by one little vote. YOUR VOTE STILL COUNTS!!!
- Tied with Czech abstract painter Frantisek Kupka in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
- Defeated Graham Sutherland handily in a second try at Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
J.M.W. Turner
1775 - 1850
British
- Crushed Cy Twombly in Round 1.
- Defeated Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Round 2.
- Beat James Tissot easily in Round 3.
- Lost to Jan Vermeer in Round 4.
14 comments:
J. M. W.
Turner
Ghirlandaio by a nose. And what a nose!!
Ghirlandaio
Turner!
Mariah votes for Turner on FB
Ghirlandaio has really grown on me, and I hate to see him go. But I love the emotions that Turner's paintings evoke, so I'll go with him.
Turner. The man was a magician with colour.
Ghirlandaio has all the virtues you'd expect from your Renaissance Florence, except...well...don't his large scenes seem a bit...cluttered? A little too carried away with their whiz-bang constructed perspectives? You certainly can't make the same complaint about Turner, who was all about sweeping things away and letting the light in. I'll go with him.
It all comes down to Chance... whose comment about the nose tips me off the fence on Ghirlandaio's side. (Do You Know the Way To) Electric Ghilandaio?
Susan votes-by-mail for Turner.
Turner, for the storm one
Turner
Candida tried to vote for Ghirlandaio, but had technical problems.
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