The last living living artist, if you will, left at the hands of the late Pablo Picasso in the Left Bracket Sixth Round. Here's a salute to the United States's own Tim Ely, whose 5-2, 55-48, .534 record kept him in until the last few rounds. Meanwhile, Paul Klee beat Patenier in the Left Sixth, just after beating Andy Goldsworthy -- whose 6-2-1, 74-45, .622 record is now definitively the best of any living Tournament artist.
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.
- Beat Andy Goldsworthy, again, in Left Bracket Round 5 Elimination.
- Beat Patenier in the Left Bracket Sixth Round.
1881 - 1973
Spanish
Pablo Picasso [was] one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism. The enormous body of Picasso’s work remains, and the legend lives on—a tribute to the vitality of the “disquieting” Spaniard with the “sombre…piercing” eyes who superstitiously believed that work would keep him alive. For nearly 80 of his 91 years, Picasso devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to and paralleled the whole development of modern art in the 20th century.
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- 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.
- Crushed Camille Pissarro in Left Bracket Fourth Round Elimination.
- Beat Georgia O'Keeffe in Left Bracket Round 5.
- Knocked out Norman Rockwell in Left Bracket Fifth Round Elimination.
- Defeated Tim Ely in the Left Bracket Sixth Round.
13 comments:
Klee
I don't like either of them much, but I'll vote for Klee.
Picasso.
Definitely Klee for me.
I'm going to go Klee as well. Picasso is amazing, and of course has a stunning range, but I feel like Klee did a better job of creating a more coherent new abstract world. Also, I'm surprised by how many Picasso paintings I don't like. Here's to Klee being the last abstract artist standing!
Picasso.
Picasso
Klee!
Susan keeps trying to say "Klee," and I keep not putting up her vote!
Klee.
Oh, and Mariah voted for Klee on Facebook quite a while ago.
What, me? Me, personally? Why, I think I'd have to throw my vote in with Picasso.
Which gives us four sets of two Klees to a Picasso, which means Klee wins eight votes to four and Picasso finally, finally, finally drops out of the Tournament at the very end. He is perhaps the highest ranking artist that gets on a number of frequent voters' nerves! ...and had a pretty good record, all things considered.
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