"End Game" - Acrylic / oil on board
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd …
It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.
-- Stefan Zweig, Chess Story
I painted this miniature in 1990 when I was student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
End Game, 1990
Acrylic/oil on fiberboard
21 x 21 cm / 8.27" x 8.27"
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Wonderful visual story and composition, one of my favorites.
Thank you Monica!
you were part of a Prof. Brauer grad class exhibition at the Belvedere Palace back then - and this image is in the catalog of that show (idk if I still have it somewhere). It inspired me for a drawing at that time, i.e. detail of that landscape.
This was at a time when I was doing serious research about the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
PS: just found the catalog - MEISTERSCHULE BRAUER OBERES BELVEDERE '90
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Yeah, long time ago...
haha, to me it seems like yesterday ..... do I have Alzheimer's? I don't remember last week, or why I just went into the kitchen ....... but these memories are as clear as can be!
for someone to play against himself is absurd … how about playing with yourself instead of against, lol 🤡
Nice, in my opinion you blend surrealism with your own unique style and the result is magnificent. The horizon beneath the chess board is a fine touch, like a portal leading beyond the roots of the mountain, on a separate plane. I like the faces hidden in the white rock, and those fractal-like fossils on the greenish rock to the right (I think I see fractals everywhere lately!)
Thank you @nyarlathotep!
Fantastic!! Really an excellent miniature, @gric !
Thanks!
Wow deine ältere Sachen gefallen mir besonders!
Danke Martin!
Hast du im unteren Bereich eine Decalcomania gemacht und dann die Gesichter erweitert??
Ja, das ganze Bild basiert auf Decalcomanie.
Max Ernst was a inspiration for me also. Funny coincidence: I posted about Decalcomania just recently.
I am really curious.. In your mind, are all these things part of the same world or independent entities?
I see it as a whole, but it doesn't really matter.