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The younger man's relaxed appearance suggests that he may be winning, while the older man's tense grip of the table edge suggests that his game is going poorly. [4] Daumier matched the colors of the chess players' clothing with the color of the chess pieces; the white suit of one character opposed to the black sweater of his opponent.
An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43] I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players) (c. 1590) by Ludovico Carracci; Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess) (1847) by Eugène Delacroix
The Chess Players is a painting from 1913 by the Finnish (later Swedish) painter Antti Favén (1882-1948). It was created from Favéns fascination for the chess scene in the Café de la Régence at Paris. The painting displays a fictitious scene with various well known chess players who Favén met during his stay in Paris. [1]
Michael Clapper of Franklin & Marshall College has noted, "Eakins’s choice of [chess] and his knowledgeable treatment of it suggest that he was familiar with and interested in the game, though there is little direct evidence of it apart from the painting." [1] Art historian Akela Reason proposes that the painting is a tribute to a number of ...
Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...
Real people were the chess pieces in this Alice in Wonderland-inspired chess game!
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