Only just last week, I was griping about how few new artists were stepping up onto the Ladder of Art, but here we are this week with a whopping FIVE new artists on which to cast your critical eye. It's because there was a three-way tie for first, and no tie at fourth: Freud plays through, and Daubigny comes out of his bye-week, and the other five are fresh grist for the mill.
Last Week's Results
This Week's Contest
Morris Louis
1912 - 1962
American
Tournament Record: Tied for 472nd. Lost to Lorenzo Lotto and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. 6 votes for, 19 votes against (.240).
Paris Bordone
1500 - 1571
Italian
Tournament Record: Tied for 472nd. Lost to Hieronymus Bosch and David Bomberg. 6 votes for, 19 votes against (.240).
Veronese
1528 - 1588
Venetian
Tournament Record: Tied for 474th. Lost to Jan Vermeer and Andrea del Verrocchio. 5 votes for, 16 votes against (.238).
David Alfaro Siqueiros
1896 - 1974
Mexican
Tournament Record: Tied for 474th. Lost to Alfred Sisley and Claus Sluter. 5 votes for, 16 votes against (.238).
Rosso Fiorentino
1494-1540
Florentine
Tournament Record: Tied for 474th. Lost to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Mark Rothko. 5 votes for, 16 votes against (.238).
Lucian Freud
1922 - 2011
German; worked in Britain
Tournament Record: Tied for 479th. Lost to Helen Frankenthaler and Sam Francis. 6 votes for, 20 votes against (.231).
- Tied for Fourth in Week #12.
- Placed Fourth in Week #13.
Charles-François Daubigny
1817 - 1878
French
Tournament Record: Placed 505th. Lost to Salvador Dali and Aelbert Cuyp. 4 votes for, 26 votes against (.133).
- Finished First in Ladder Week #2.
- Finished First again in Week #4.
- ...and again in Week #6.
- ...and in Week #8.
- ...and in Week #10.
- ...and in Week #12.
Cast up to four votes in the comments by Friday morning!
12 comments:
Bordone, Veronese, Fiorentino, Daubigny.
I'm super into a couple of the newcomers to the ladder! I'll vote Louis, Siqueiros, Fiorentino. And I'll vote for the fortnightly favorite Daubigny.
I'll take David Sequerios. Spelling it wrong I'm sure. Sorry.
I'm going to go with Louis, Freud, and the fortnightly Daubigny.
Yes, fun to get some new blood in there. This is a pretty easy week for me: Daubigny, Freud, Siqueiros, and Veronese. I'm surprised Veronese hasn't gotten more love, thus far in the ladder or before. I think he's pretty amazing- sort of a Titian-lite.
Siqueiros, Daubigny, and votes against Freud and Louis
Daubigny, Freud, Veronese, and Fiorentino
Daubigny, Veronese, Louis, and Bordone.
Siqueiros, Fiorentino, Freud, and Daubigny. I'm having fun visualizing them collaborating on a big mural commission.
Well, let's see. With the malicious DrSchnell no doubt intentionally nullifying my votes, we end up with Fortnightly Daubigny advancing to another bye week from first place, with Siqueiros in second, Veronese and Fiorentino in third, and the other three doomed.
Aw, don't take it personally! Looking at Freud's art just makes me want to throw up, and Louis looks like less-interesting versions of my daughters' kindergarten-era art still hanging up in my office.
Obviously we're all adults here, and I certainly would never be so shallow as to take your malice personally.
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