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Christopher Kreuzer
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Chess art

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:11 pm

I thought we had a thread on examples of chess art, but couldn't find it.

I came across the works of an artist called Wieslaw Smetek:

http://smetek.de/

In a copy of this book of his:

http://propagandaverlag.net/buecher/sme ... r-die-zeit

I noticed at the back, two artworks inspired by the Anand-Carlsen match. They don't appear to be online, but are worth looking up for the collectors and connoisseurs out there. Let's just say that they merge chess with punk! :D

The artworks (two of them) may also have been published in Die Zeit (German newspaper) at some point.
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Barry Sandercock
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Re: Chess art

Post by Barry Sandercock » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:33 pm

For Chess art, try Nette Robinson website.
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Re: Chess art

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:38 pm

Thanks, Barry. I know Nette and should have mentioned her website:

http://netterobinson-art.co.uk/

Goodness, I had missed this somehow:

http://netterobinson-art.co.uk/page/4585535395

I didn't know Alexey Slavin had been elected President of the Samara Chess Federation!
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David Robertson

Re: Chess art

Post by David Robertson » Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:58 pm

One must not overlook this fabulous collection from Martin Smith
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Re: Chess art

Post by PeterFarr » Thu Mar 26, 2015 10:15 pm

David Robertson wrote:One must not overlook this fabulous collection from Martin Smith
Absolutely right. I wonder if Martin Smith has ever thought of making a book out of it; really it is a great series of articles.
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Stephen Saunders
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Re: Chess art

Post by Stephen Saunders » Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:41 am

Geoff Chandler drew my attention to this painting:-

http://serkanergun.org/gallery/world-chess-champions/

Geoff wanted to know why Kramnik is blindfolded (I assume it's just a reference to Melody Amber myself.)

I think the people standing behind Capa are meant to be Morphy and Anderssen.
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Martin Smith
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Re: Chess art

Post by Martin Smith » Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:38 pm

Thanks David and Peter for your generous comments on my articles on the Streatham and Brixton Chess Blog. The Chess in Art collection there was initiated by the sequence of images posted by Justin Horton.

A couple of articles discuss Nette's brilliant artwork:
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... inson.html
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... three.html
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Re: Chess art

Post by MJMcCready » Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:46 pm

For chess art, join the Memorychess group on facebook, the image bank is much larger than anything else you will find on line and well categorized.
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