Checkmate at Dawn
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"Checkmate at Dawn"
Otherwise known as "The Preemptive Strike".
A series of four small paintings,
an abstracted still life of Japanese hand carved chess pieces,
king and knight, in a real check mate that appeared in the chess section of the
New York Times,
sometime in the autumn of 1965 (The Greenwich Village Period).
Oil on canvas.
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the above paintings to go to a close-up of it.
Heavy use of ultramarine blue, which is a sulfate of aluminum oxide at least in these days. The science of pigments have advanced somewhat. I'm a little concerned about the colors they make out of petroleum lately, used in commercial aspects of the color business. I'm worried that science has kind of stopped looking for new fine art colors. I'm certain there must be thousands and thousands of them out there still undiscovered.
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