Chase and Daubigny are both on bye-week for the 36th running, which leaves the three new guys a relatively survivable art ecosystem. Maybe one of them will survive! Or maybe they all will!
Last Week's Results
1. Chase: 7
1. Daubigny: 7
3. Kalf:5
3. van Honthorst: 5
3. Marin: 5
6. Davis: 2
7. Mangold:1
This Week's Contest
Piero della Francesca
1410s - 1492
Italian
Tournament Record: Tied for 412th. Lost to Pablo Picasso and Pietro da Cortona. 7 votes for, 14 votes against (.333).
Antoni Tàpies
1923 - 2012
Spanish
Tournament Record: Placed 414th. Tied with Vladimir Tatlin, then lost to Frederic Leighton and Richard Wilson. 12 votes for, 25 votes against (.324).
Andrea del Verrocchio
1435 - 1488
Florentine
Tournament Record: Placed 415th. Lost to Vieira da Silva, beat Veronese, and then lost to Utamaro. 10 votes for, 21 votes against (.323).
John Marin
1870 - 1953
American
Tournament Record: Placed 416th. Lost to Franz Marc and Theo Van Doesburg. 8 votes for, 17 votes against (.320).
- Tied for Third in Week #35.
Gerrit van Honthorst
1590 - 1656
Dutch
Tournament Record: Placed 423rd. Lost to Pieter De Hooch, beat Hans Holbein, then lost to Hokusai. 11 votes for, 24 votes against (.314).
- Placed First in Week #33.
- Tied for Third in Week #35.
Canaletto
1697 - 1768
Italian (Venetian); also worked in England
Tournament Record: Placed 448th. Beat Robert Campin, then lost to Caravaggio and Alexander Calder. 7 votes for, 17 votes against (.292).
- Placed First in Week #24.
- Placed First again in Week #26.
- Placed First again in Week #28.
- And again in Week #30.
- And again in Week #32.
- And again in Week #34.
Willem Kalf
1622 - 1693
Dutch
Tournament Record: Tied for 454th. Lost to Wassily Kandinsky and Richard Parkes Bonington. 7 votes for, 18 votes against (.280).
- Tied for First in Week #22.
- Placed Second in Week #24.
- Tied for Third in Week #25.
- Placed Fourth in Week #26
- Placed Third in Week #27.
- Placed Second in Week #28.
- Tied for Second in Week #29.
- Placed Fourth in Week #30.
- Placed Fourth in Week #31.
- Placed Fourth in Week #32.
- Placed Fourth in Week #33.
- Tied for Fourth in Week #34.
- Tied for Third in Week #35.
Cast up to four votes in the comments by Friday morning!
I'll vote for the old guys. Marin, van Honthorst, Canaletto, Kalf.
ReplyDeletevan Honthorst, Canaletto, Marin.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom 4.
ReplyDeletePiero della Francesca now and for as long as he lasts on his ladder climb (or possible fall). And then I'll also take Verrocchio of the new guys. Of the old guard I'll take Canaletto and Kalf.
ReplyDeleteSusan casts her lot in with Piero della Francesca, Verrochio, Canaletto & one non-Italian, Willem "Lemon Peel" Kalf.
ReplyDeleteI'll take Verrochio, and -- to my surprise -- Marin. I didn't really think much of Marin, and was kind of dumbfounded when people voted for him last week. That sent me looking, and I liked what I saw.
ReplyDeleteIt's tempting, this week and every week, to toss in a negative vote against Canaletto as a way of saying 'wow man he is like so overrated." But I don't really have a grain of dislike for Canaletto in my body, so I will continue to resist the temptation for many weeks to come.
Hey, I like the new guys! Piero Della Francesca for sure, and Verrocchio. And Tapies. And then Canaletto.
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