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.
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Thank you Monica!
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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...
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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!
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for someone to play against himself is absurd … how about playing with yourself instead of against, lol 🤡
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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!)
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Thank you @nyarlathotep!
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Fantastic!! Really an excellent miniature, @gric !
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Thanks!
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Wow deine ältere Sachen gefallen mir besonders!
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Danke Martin!
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Hast du im unteren Bereich eine Decalcomania gemacht und dann die Gesichter erweitert??
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Ja, das ganze Bild basiert auf Decalcomanie.
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Max Ernst was a inspiration for me also. Funny coincidence: I posted about Decalcomania just recently.
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I am really curious.. In your mind, are all these things part of the same world or independent entities?
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I see it as a whole, but it doesn't really matter.
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