Left Bracket Seventh Round: Klee v. Vermeer

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I hardly know what to say about Klee vs. Vermeer!

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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. 
• Beat Andy Goldsworthy, again, in Left Bracket Round 5 Elimination. 
• Beat Patenier in the Left Bracket Sixth Round.
• Beat Pablo Picasso in Sixth Round Elimination.

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Jan Vermeer

1632 - 1675
Dutch

With Rembrandt and Frans Hals, Vermeer ranks among the most admired of all Dutch artists, but he was much less well known in his own day and remained relatively obscure until the end of the nineteenth century. The main reason for this is that he produced a small number of pictures, perhaps about forty-five (of which thirty-six are known today), primarily for a small circle of patrons in Delft.... His compositions are mostly invented and exhibit the most discriminating formal relationships, including those of color. In addition, Vermeer’s application of paint reveals extraordinary technical ability and time-consuming care.

- The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

• Beat Veronese easily in Round 1.
• Vanquished Maria Elena Vieira da Silva in Round 2.
• Trounced Félix Vallotton in Round 3.
• Beat Turner in Round 4 by a single vote. YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!
• Got past Jan Steen in Round 5.
• Beat Michaelangelo in Round 6.
• Lost to John Singer Sargent in Round 7.

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