Infinite Art Tournament: Left Bracket Fifth Round Elimination GRUDGE MATCH: Goldsworthy v. Klee

Andy Goldworthy and Paul Klee encountered each other way back in February 2017, and Klee came out the winner by a single measly vote. Since then, Goldworthy has won three close ones (against Fillipino Lippo, Magritte, and Matisse), Klee lost to Leonardo da Vinci and then trounced Manet, and we have all grown in our collective aesthetic judgements. Now it's time for Goldsworthy and Klee to take on each other again -- but this time, only one will survive!

Andy Goldsworthy
born 1956
British

In a diverse career spanning four decades, Andy Goldsworthy has become one of the most prominent and iconic contemporary sculptors. In photographs, sculptures, installations, and films, Goldsworthy documents his explorations of the effects of time, the relationship between humans and their natural surroundings, and the beauty in loss and regeneration. Goldsworthy’s permanent projects and ephemeral works contrast in their scale, tension, and lifetime, but are unified through their responses to the environment and his constant investigation into understanding the landscape he is in.

- Galerie Lelong & Co.

Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 12 of the Play-In Tournament, with a voting score of .923.
Finished First in Phase 2, Flight 4, with a voting score of .500.
Beat contemporary Tony Cragg decisively in Round 1.
Walloped L.S. Lowry in Round 2.
Defeated René Magritte in Round 3.
Tied with Thomas Hart Benton in his first attempt at Round 4. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Lost to Paul Klee in a Round 4 single-vote tiebreak thriller. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Beat Filippino Lippi in the Left Bracket Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS AGAIN!!!
Defeated René Magritte again -- by only a single vote, this time -- in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination. YOUR VOTE COUNTS YET AGAIN!!!
Upset Henri Matisse in the Left Bracket Fifth Round.

Paul Klee
1879 - 1940
German

Klee is known for his simple stick figures, suspended fish, moon faces, eyes, arrows, and quilts of color, which he orchestrated into fantastic and childlike yet deeply meditative works.... By 1915, he had turned his back to nature and never again painted after the model. With abstracted forms and merry symbols, he expressed the most diverse subjects drawn from his imagination, poetry, music, literature, and his reaction to the world around him . His subjects reveal his impish humor and his bent toward the fantastic and the meditative.

- The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Beat Yves Klein black and blue, mostly blue, in Round 1.
Knocked around the popular Gustav Klimt in Round 2.
Defeated Banksy without too much trouble in Round 3.
Tied with his old roommate Wassily Kandinsky in his first try at Round 4. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Beat Andy Goldsworthy in the Round 4 tiebreaker by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
Lost to Leonardo da Vinci in Round 5.
Laid a beating on Édouard Manet in Left Bracket Round 5.