chess in art

Ronald Llanos
(b 1984)
Chess

Paul Weber
(1893 - 1980)
Chess Tod und Teufe
(1967)

Jerry Wall (1952)

The Cheater (2007)

Jerry Wall (1952)

Bad Move (2007)

Jerry Wall (1952)

First Chess (2007)

Paul Weber
(1893 - 1980)
Chess foxes
(1967)

The postcards are by A. Paul Weber (1893-1980), a German artist who first put his talents to work for publications of the resistance against Hitler, until arrested by the Gestapo and encouraged to tackle other subjects. According to the website of a museum dedicated to his work, “The chess motif reoccurs in his work after 1937. Chess is a game, but it is also a struggle of minds. Weber used the game to make conflicts between different groups clearer. He steadily created new games between literary, political and historical figures.”

Paul Weber
(1893 - 1980)
Napoleon playing chess with the Russian Winter
(1975)

Paul Weber
(1893 - 1980)
Voltaire is playing chess with the Pope

Paul Weber
(1893 - 1980)
Schach

Olga Glumcher
(b 1982)
Yes Boss

Olga Glumcher
(b 1982)
Yes Boss

Kenneth Matthews
(1908 – 1994)
Lord Grey playing William IV
(1948)

Sublime. 

Viera Szabo's "Game in Progress" and James Christiansen's "Abstract Chess" also wonderful.

i have looked at the "game in progress" "äbstract  chess",,, 

please tell me/us what you like and inspire us!! i'll  try and  keep my mind open :)) i want to understand !!

I am going to supress about 10 digital art paintings which are not very beautiful.

If you see some improvements to the slideshow please tell me.

Thanks for your interest but, must respectfully decline.  All I can offer is this Joyce Carol Oates quote:

"Assuming that all art is metaphor, or metaphorical, what really is the motive for metaphor?  Is there a motive?  Or, in fact, metaphor?  Can one say anything finally, with unqualified confidence, about any work of art - why it strikes a profound, irresistible, and occasionally life-altering response in some individuals, yet means very little to others?  In this, the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remain private, and cannot be communicated to others.  Our secret affinities remain secret even to ourselves....We fall in love with certain works of art, as we fall in love with certain individuals, for no very clear motive."

Beyond this, would simply say its key to look to the work for inspiration not to people's interpretations of the work.  If what you are looking at doesn't inspire you look elsewhere, but keep looking. 

August Hermann Knoop
(1856 - 1900)
The chess players

Henri Brispot
(1846 – 1928)
The chess game

Alessandro Sani
(1856 - 1927)
A game of chess