Henri Cartier-Bresson1908 - 2004FrenchFinished First in Phase 1, Flight 11 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .909.Finished First in

Marie Laurencin1883 - 1956French

Hans Hartung1904 - 1992German; worked in France Put up a good fight against Childe Hassam in Round 1.Won a close one against St. Ives' Patrick Heron in

Richard Hamilton1922 - 2011BritishLost to Wilhelm Hammershoi in Round 1.Beat his near-contemporary Philip Guston in

European Style If you

Stanley William Hayter1901 - 1988BritishTied with Raoul Hausmann in his first try at Round One.

I don’t like to use telephones for anything except what they were made for, which is to say text messaging. If I have to, although I really don't like it, I’ll use them to have a remote voice conversation. But that’s it, and for the other esoteric electronic business of Modern Life, I use task-specific tools. This

Are artists that lose their First Round matches doomed?  Well, today sees the meeting of two artists who lost their initial match but have since won two straight to stay alive in the Left Bracket.  After this match, of course, one will advance to the Third Round, and the other won't.  

Faceoff #1: Beccafumi v. JohnsDomenico Beccafumic.1486 - 1551ItalianTied with André Beauneveu in his initial Round 1 outing, in Ja

Albrecht Altdorfer

Halfway Week celebrations continue with the other half of the tiebreaker that started yesterday!Francisco Goya1746 - 1828SpanishScored a decisive v

Halfway Week celebrations continue today and tomorrow as we try to untangle a snarl of ties that has had Jacques-Louis David and Francisco Goya in its grip for what seems like forever.  Will they finally play on through to the Third Round?  Will they fall to the Left Bracket?  Or will they just keepi

A natural question to ask halfway through a tournament is "Who's winning?" And the answer, of course, is that there's no telling. No matter how anybody is doing right now, it's always possible that Mark Tobey, or Kitagawa Utamaro, or Johann Zoffany -- or, say, Vermeer -- will eventually cut through the brackets like a hot

The letter C represents some of the biggest names in art, and today's Third Round Elimination match pits some of the survivors of a bracket cluster in which even artists like Marc Chagall, Christo, Claude Lorraine, and Giorgio de Chirico could not get any traction.Joseph Cornell and Jean-Baptiste-Simeo

Two unrelated facts: We are halfway through 2014, and halfway through the Infinite Art Tournament!!Halfway Through the Infinite Art Tournament?!?Sort of!  For when Lanyon entered the ring against La Tour on Saturday, they were the 255th and 256th artists out of the 512 that will ultimatel

Peter Lanyon1918 - 1964British

June's Element of the Month:Sodium! Na11Atomic Mass: 22.98976928 amuMelting Point: 97.794 °CBoiling Point: 882.940 °CThe sun, as everyone knows, is a big ball of fusion en

Way back in January, we had our first ever foray into Left Bracket Third Round Elimination, with Bazille and Beckmann meeting in a high-power grudge match.  Now, five months later, we've been able to drag a second

The "Fight for Their Right" contests for Bill Viola's and Wright of Derby's bracket spots close Friday!

Nicolas Lancret1690 - 1743French

Jean-Baptiste Greuze1725 - 1805FrenchLost to Atkinson Grimshaw in Round 1.Scorched another French guy 20 years his elder, Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, in

Dosso Dossi and Georges Braque have developed the habit of winning or losing by a single vote.  Mr. Dossi has just snuck by Buren, while Mr. Braque was thrown to the left bracket last October by Richard Diebenkorn.  Will it be another close match?  Let's find out!

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Frantisek Kupka1871 - 1957Czech; worked in France

Faceoff #1: Ghiberti v. HoudonLorenzo Ghiberti1378 - 1455FlorentineTied with Domenico Ghirlandaio in a June 2013 First-Round m