Left Bracket Sixth Round: Gentileschi v. Benton!

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Here's the second match of the Left Bracket Sixth Round!  Ms. Gentileschi (7-1, 66-35, .653) has been taking care of herself in the Left Bracket for a while.  She has just dispatched Caspar Friedrich (5-2, 60-28, .682), whose record makes him the second highest ranking artist of everyone who has left the Tournament, behind only the elusive Antonella da Messina.  

Thomas Hart Benton, in addition to surviving the play-in Tournament, has put together an impressive main tournament record (5-1-1, 51-31, .622).  He is here after losing to Remedios Varo.

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Artemisia Gentileschi
1593 - 1652
Italian

Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century. Her innovative compositions and focus on Biblical heroines set her apart from her male contemporaries and have lead to the celebration of Gentileschi as a painter with a uniquely female perspective.

- Brooklyn Museum

• Slew Gentile da Fabriano in his tent in Round 1.
• Dispatched Théodore Géricault in Round 2.
  
• Outpolled Jacques-Louis David in Round 3.
• Lost to Caspar David Friedrich in Round 4.
• Defeated Carel Fabritius in the Left Bracket Fourth Round by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Vanquished Lyonel Feininger in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination.
• Ousted Atkinson Grimshaw in the Left Bracket Fifth Round.
• Snuck by Caspar Freaking Friedrich in Left Bracket Fifth Round Elimination by a two-vote swing. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!

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Thomas Hart Benton
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!!!
• Lost to Remedios Varo in Round 6.

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