Left Bracket Fifth Round TIEBREAKER: Caravagio v. Klimt!

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If you thought the recent Klimt/Hopper match was emotionally difficult, there's great news: it has been declared a tie!  After locking up at six votes apiece, those painters will now try their skills against another pair that tied in the Left Fifth: Caravaggio and Frederick Church.  Klimt takes on Caravaggio today; Church and Hopper will go head to head starting this Thursday.

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Caravaggio
1571 - 1610
Italian

For 400 years Caravaggio's staggering artistic achievements have thrilled viewers, yet his volatile personal trajectory... has long confounded historians.

- National Gallery of Art

• Defeated sculptor Antonio Canova in Round 1.
• Crushed likeable landscape specialist Canaletto Round 2.
• Fought to a draw with Gustave Caillebotte in Round 3.
• Edged out Spaniard Salvador Dali in a Round 3 tiebreaker by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beaten by Edgar Degas in Round 4.
• Snuck by Georges Braque in the Left Bracket Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Beat Gustave Courbet in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination.
• Tied with Frederick Church in his first try at the Left Bracket Fifth Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Austrian

Gustav Klimt painted... many scenes at the Attersee, a lake near Salzburg where he often spent his summers beginning in 1900. Klimt frequently used a telescope or opera glasses when composing his landscapes; these devices allowed him to see in great detail while at the same time collapsing the middle distance. The flatness of the resulting close-up perspective gives the surface of the canvas the appearance of a densely knotted tapestry....

- The Phillips Collection

• Beat Franz Kline black and blue, mostly black, in Round 1.
• Lost badly to Paul Klee in Round 2.
• Crushed Pierre Bonnard in the Left Bracket Second Round.
• Beat Franz Kline black and blue, again, in a Left Bracket Second Round Elimination Grudge Match.
• Beat sculptor Anish Kapoor in the Left Bracket Third Round.
• Defeated Banksy in Left Bracket Third Round Elimination.
• Beat Georges de La Tour decisively in the Left Bracket Fourth Round.
• Beat Wassily Kandinsky in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination by a two vote swing.  YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Tied with Edward Hopper in his first try at the Left Bracket Fifth Round. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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