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Oct 22, 2021
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Really Cool, I love Chess Art!!!! Your Awesome Thank You so Much For All Your Work And Efforts!!!
Oct 22, 2021
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I discovered/your blog only 2 days ago via your Morphy Biography on the other web site. Glad to see you still post about chess and not only music as I read somewhere. 
The artist's ideas seen very unconventional to me. Why does he write Rex, Regina on the faces but does not give them a crown ?
Oct 22, 2021
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kamalakanta wrote:
What a great artist!
Thanks!
...and thank you. I like that he made a set.
Oct 22, 2021
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terminuso wrote:
Really Cool, I love Chess Art!!!! Your Awesome Thank You so Much For All Your Work And Efforts!!!
Thanks for the encouragement.
Oct 22, 2021
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Rook_Handler wrote:
But Kafkaesque doesn't mean anything anymore.
How existential.
Oct 22, 2021
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MF972 wrote:
I discovered/your blog only 2 days ago via your Morphy Biography on the other web site.
Which other web site?
MF972 wrote:
The artist's ideas seen very unconventional to me. Why does he write Rex, Regina on the faces but does not give them a crown ?
This was his surrealistic period. Surrealists offered neither rhyme nor reason for their fantastical creations.
This is some brilliant work for those interested in the style. I wonder if there are any poster reproductions out there for purchase? I love to collect anything chess!
MilagroHombre wrote:
This is some brilliant work for those interested in the style. I wonder if there are any poster reproductions out there for purchase? I love to collect anything chess!
The original lithographs sold in 2013 and 2018.
Sold Price: Raffi Kaiser Original Lithograph - November 4, 0118 9:00 AM PST (invaluable.com)
The only prints I could find were of the Queen. There was a print of all the pieces at the board but it's been sold on ebay. Don't have any idea about the copyright on it.
Raffi Kaiser Chess - The Game of Kings - Queen Framed Lithograph 18.5 " x 22.5 " | eBay
UzielAncient wrote:
MilagroHombre wrote:
This is some brilliant work for those interested in the style. I wonder if there are any poster reproductions out there for purchase? I love to collect anything chess!
The original lithographs sold in 2013 and 2018.
Sold Price: Raffi Kaiser Original Lithograph - November 4, 0118 9:00 AM PST (invaluable.com)
The only prints I could find were of the Queen. There was a print of all the pieces at the board but it's been sold on ebay. Don't have any idea about the copyright on it.
Raffi Kaiser Chess - The Game of Kings - Queen Framed Lithograph 18.5 " x 22.5 " | eBay
Thank You UzielAncient !
I don’t know much about visual art, but it is mysterious to me how visual art is described as kafkaesque. I have read Kafka…. what does this mean?
Amazing! Sarah, thanks for your insatiable curiosity and inexhaustible searches for chess beauty!
Oct 22, 2021
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#18
yeah here's a joke ...along with the math of the joke ...jokes are no joke
i am pro for i am the gamer boy neon
Oct 22, 2021
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#20
Stunningly beautiful! Thank you @batgirl, I didn't know anything about Raffi Kaiser!
Raffi Kaiser | The Art Institute of Chicago
an ad placed in Chess Life on March 1980
Raffi Kaiser was born in Jerusalem on May 27, 1931. He was a classically trained artist. The time between 1962 and 1978 is considered his 'first period' during which his work was surrealistic, often described as Kafkaesque. This set came from that period. In 1978 Kaiser went into a three-year long self-exile, living in the Judean and Negev Deserts of Israel during which, true to Kafka, he underwent a Metamorphosis. His style radically changed from surrealism to landscapes. He embraced drawing over painting and forsook his use of vibrant colors for the starkness of black & white. His art journey took him to China, Japan and Italy were he learned to embrace each culture's traditional styles and incorporate them into his own work. He lived in Paris and Tuscany and died in 2010.
Here is his "The Game of Kings" set
The Game of Kings
The King
The Queen
The Rook
The Bishop
The Knight
The Pawn