Endless-love wrote:
[Painting of lovers]
Knut Ekwall was a very talented Swedish painter and The Proposal is one of his more well-known pieces. Chess was often used to symbolize two people together in the game of life.
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Mar 24, 2020
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#85
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/chess-images?page=5#comment-47172840
Great! I did not know about Fischer's humanitarian angle. Thanks so much for sharing all these pictures, paintings and notes, Batgirl, YOU ROCK!
Beautiful paintings and photographs 💆
I'd hate to rush it and pick something off from a Google search, so I'll share an image that truly does move me:
wow so wholesome 
This oil painting by Sir John Lavery... I can't quite put a finger on it yet alone the more abstract word, hence my curiosity...
Mar 25, 2020
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#89
batgirl wrote:
PoolPlayerToo wrote:
Don't know anything about this painting other than a copy hung on a wall in my grandparents house when I was a little kid in the '50's
That's “Chess Players” by the Belgian artist, Alex de Andreis. Notice the long clay pipe - they were pretty common in 19th century Dutch and German paintings. Those fellows are kind of roguish.
Here's a clay-pipes-galore-picture
"Die Schachpartie" c.1870
London born Charles Meer Webb studied in Amsterdam and Anvers and lived in Düsseldorf.
Mar 25, 2020
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#91
In the always interesting world of Surrealism and its environs, this is a photo taken in Hollywood in 1946 by Lee Miller, the former lover and muse of photographer Man Ray. The subject is Juliet Browner, who had just married Man Ray (in a double ceremony with Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in Hollywood, 1946). The chess set is one designed by Man Ray -who also owns the disjointed hand in the photo.
Mar 25, 2020
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#92
WSama wrote:
This oil painting by Sir John Lavery... I can't quite put a finger on it yet alone the more abstract word, hence my curiosity...
A rather snooty subject matter, depicting the Hons. Margaret and Rosemary Scott-Ellis, daughters of Thomas Scott-Ellis, the 8th Baron Howard de Walden. (painted in 1929). Sir Laverly, however, is quite talented with a good eye for composition and detail.
batgirl wrote:
WSama wrote:
This oil painting by Sir John Lavery... I can't quite put a finger on it yet alone the more abstract word, hence my curiosity...
A rather snooty subject matter, depicting the Hons. Margaret and Rosemary Scott-Ellis, daughters of Thomas Scott-Ellis, the 8th Baron Howard de Walden. (painted in 1929). Sir Laverly, however, is quite talented with a good eye for composition and detail.
Snooty?... I hoped the girls in the picture were a figment of Laverly's imagination. I simply can't imagine myself hanging a painting of somebody's daughters, not to mention a painting of famed personalities. It's simply not in my taste. But still it remains a beautiful painting. Thanks for the info batgirl. Your efforts are always cherished.
Mar 26, 2020
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#95
Schachdorf Ströbeck
(click the image for the story of Schachdorf Ströbeck in words and pictures)
جميل جدا شكرا شكرا على هذة الروائع
Thanks to that beautiful article, I have two favourite images now:
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Mar 26, 2020
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#98
Death playing chess....
A wall painting by Albert Pinkus in Täby Church, Sweden, c. 1480
probably by printmaker Israhel von Meckenem c.1475
@batgirl, in keeping with the theme of death and chess, I'd like to point out some occult references in the image I borrowed from your article:
Firstly, the stylization is common of drawings depicting deities, worship, legends and so forth.
Second, the lonely character on the right is pointing one finger upwards to the sky and the other finger downwards to the ground. This symbol is often associated with the occult.
Third, the player accompanied by the bard is wielding another occult symbol, and it is pointed at the previously mentioned player. Not to mention the discoloured fingers as if to say they might have been submerged in what may be perhaps blood.
Lastly, the bard's instrument seems to be marked with a certain symbol right in the center, but it's hard to make it out. Whatever that symbol is, it is depicted as being music to the player's ears.
There are a few other themes in the drawing, but those four are the most notable.
... there's also the diamond-looking geometric pattern, which is quite common of most art but is also known to represent a serpent.
If one were to view it in accordance with Christian lore, then the drawing depicts the game as the forbidden fruit (abstract world), and the two players partaking of it.
And if one posts the two works of art in the order I did, it makes for quite a mystic setting:
Don't know anything about this painting other than a copy hung on a wall in my grandparents house when I was a little kid in the '50's
That's “Chess Players” by the Belgian artist, Alex de Andreis. Notice the long clay pipe - they were pretty common in 19th century Dutch and German paintings. Those fellows are kind of roguish.