Found inside – Page 44Duchamp's paintings and drawings from August 1910 to May 1912 on the theme of chess players exemplify a transition from his painterly, ... "Transit, transitional, transition: Dalia Judovitz catches Marcel Duchamp on the run with his art in a suitcase and his thought all boxed and ready to go. Found inside – Page 34We can find antecedents in Magritte's paintings ( one of which is now used as ... analysis of a single painting : The Chess Players , a double portrait by ... Found inside – Page 82The terrace is shown white , while brilliant colours can be seen in the chessboard and in the costume of the chess players . Found inside – Page 203These invariably were paintings that would o¤end no one and are today recognized ... was The Chess Players, the portrait he made of painter George Holmes, ... Mr. Schonberg's presentation of the lives of the grandmasters is so entertaining, the stories so engrossing, that even readers who are not familiar with chess will be captivated by this gallery of brilliant and unforgettable characters." Found inside – Page 72With the addition of men in the final painting , we are led to understand ... 33 The connection is confirmed by the fact that The Chess Players was painted ... Found inside – Page 602Eakins had a collection of photographs of Géréme's paintings for study and reference. Observing the similarity between Eakins's The Chess Players and an ... Found insideEpstein examined the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors, forecasters and scientists, and discovered that in most fields-- especially those that are complex and unpredictable-- generalists, not specialists, are ... Found inside – Page 62During December 1911, he worked on two successive paintings of two people playing chess. In the second version, Portrait of Chess Players, each is seen in ... Found inside – Page 171Thus, to “see” Reb playing chess with his friend, the reader envisions Cézanne's painting and installs it in Miller's narrative. In some sense, Reb and his ... Found inside – Page 135The initial response to Chess Players when it was first exhibited alongside Pastimes in 1865 has already been mentioned, with the Daily News referring to ... Found inside – Page 85118 ) , it is the latest and most mature of several paintings of similar subjects . The artist's development from the time he painted the Chess Players in the Berlin Museum , presumably as early as 1508 , to the painting of our Card ... Found insideThe Imagery of Chess Revisited recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition The Imagery of Chess, held at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City. Found inside – Page 135During a walk around the house Morphy was drawn to a painting, The Chess Players, by Morits Retzsch. In the painting, a young man is playing chess with the ... Found insideThe Grandmaster “is not the usual chronicle of a world-championship chess match….Butler offers insight into what it takes to become the best chess player on the planet. Found inside – Page 89... 45/8 x 35 inches / 116 x 89 centimeters 1964 hours with the chess players . He never had a studio ; he painted in a small room next to his bedroom . Why did Thomas Eakins, now considered the foremost American painter of the nineteenth century, make portraiture his main field in an era when other major artists disdained such a choice? 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