Cast votes for up to four of these seven artists by Friday May 15. For clarifications, consult the Ladder of Art FAQ.
Last Week's Results
1. Chase: 6
2. Daubigney: 4
2. Mondrian: 4
2. Oudry: 4
2. Fantin-Latour: 4
6. Ensor: 3
7. Ribera: 2
This Week's Contest
Lucio Fontana
1899 - 1968
Argentinian
Tournament Record: Tied for 336th. Beat Flavin, Lost to Foujita and Fantin-Latour. 14 votes for, 20 against (.412).
Giambologna
1529 - 1608
Florentine
Tournament Record: Tied for 336th. Lost to Giacometti, beat Gilbert & George, lost to Giorgione. 14 votes for, 20 against (.412).
Henri Fantin-Latour
1836 - 1904
French
Tournament Record: Placed 338th. Skunked by Fabritius, beat Fautrier and Fontana, and lost a rematch with Fabritius. 18 votes for, 26 against (.409).
- Tied for Third Place in Week #69.
- Tied for Second Place in Week #70.
Francesco Guardi
1712 - 1780
Venetian
Tournament Record: Placed 339th. Defeated Guercino, and Grosz; Lost to Grimshaw and Hammershoi. 20 votes for, 29 against (.408).
- Placed First in Week #69.
Jean Baptiste Oudry
1686 - 1755
French
Tournament Record: Tied for 347th. Finished First in Phase 1, Flight 9 and in Phase 2, Flight 6 of the Play-In Tournament. Beat Gerrard Dou; Lost to Metsu and Millet. 14 votes for, 21 against (.400). Lowest-performing artist from the play-in tournament.
- Tied for Third in Week #64.
- In the Great 2nd-Place Scrum of Week #65.
- Placed First in Week #66.
- Tied for Fourth Place, Week #68.
- Tied for Third Place, Week #69.
- Tied for Second Place in Week #70.
Piet Mondrian
1872 - 1944
Dutch
Tournament Record: Placed 351st. Tied with László Moholy-Nagy; lost to Sir William Orpen and Auguste Rodin. 14 votes for, 21 against (.400).
- Tied for First in Week #63.
- In the Great 2nd-Place Scrum of Week #65.
- In the Great 2nd-Place Scrum of Week #66.
- Tied for Third, Week #67.
- Tied for First Place in Week #68.
- Tied for Second Place in Week #70.
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 all of the even-numbered Ladder Weeks #2 - #20.
- Tied for First, Week #22.
- Placed Third in Week #24.
- Tied for First, Week #25.
- Tied for First, Week #27.
- Tied for Second, Weeks #29 - #34.
- Tied for First, Week #35.
- Tied for Second, Weeks #37 - #40.
- Placed Second, Week #41.
- Placed Third in Week #42.
- Tied for First, Week #43.
- Placed Second, Week #45.
- Placed First, Week #46.
- Tied for First in Weeks #48, #50, and #52.
- Placed First, Week #54.
- Took two weeks off while the Ladder got sorted out, then took a bye in Week #57.
- Placed First in Weeks #58, #60, #62, and #64.
- In the Great 2nd-Place Scrum of Week #66.
- Placed First, Week #67.
- Placed Second in Week #69.
- Tied for Second Place in Week #70.
Cast up to four votes in the comments by Saturday morning!
8 comments:
All pretty good! Fontana, Fantin-Latour, Mondrian.
Wolverine is back! Well, not him. I'll go with...
Daubigny (Who at some point won't get my vote. But not yet.)
Mondrian (I can't decide if I'm voting for him to balance the art in my ballot or if he's really in my top 4.)
Giambologna (Whoa! How is he this low? He'll be getting my vote for a while.)
Guardi (He'll be getting my vote for even longer.)
Votes for Fantin-Latour, Daubigny, and Oudry.
Voe against Giambologna. (That looks like 3 penises! Gross!)
Votes for Duabigny (so whimsical and satisfying) and Giambologna (they look so real and tell a story).
Votes against Mondrian (technically art but not real) and Fontana (Who would put this in their house! I worry about the people who like him.)
Well, Mondrian is right at the top of my list. Elliott makes me wonder if I would still appreciate him if I didn't have a sense of where he stood in the history of art and architecture. But I do, and one of my rules in voting has been that you get extra credit for being first to do something. I like that even after he restricted his art to very spare rules, he was still able to give his paintings the poetry, balance, and complexity of his early landscapes.
I will also vote for Giambologna, Fantin-Latour, and Guardi.
Fantin-Latour, Oudry, Mondrian, Daubigny.
Susan sez: Fantin-Latour, Guardi, Oudry & Daubigny.
I haven't said this for a long time, but -- I'll go with Morgan's slate.
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