Chessa-lee: art

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20 Apr 2009

Fook Island

Fook Gallooper..image: artthrob.co.za artist:Norman Catherine

If you wanna know what Fook Island is all about..then click here to read who was the creater of this island. He even created fookian banknotes and exchanged it on the airport of Rome. His fookian drivers license was accepted in the USA! hehehe...The link will open in a new window.

24 May 2008

Paul Klee and Chess

Please click HERE to see more Paul Klee art and you can see children's art work in the style of Paul Klee.

4 Oct 2007

Underground

These pictures were taken on platforms as I was travelling on the Underground.....or ..........the tube...some of the pictures are Platform Art....You will read it in the right bottom corner...it is to promote art and artists throughout London. The other pictures are only advertisements.....and one picture tells you that London Underground is busy improving the stations!

9 Sept 2007

Waiting

7 Sept 2007

Whoops! Glad for this!

Seated: The chess champions Mikhail Tal (1936-1992), José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942), Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941), Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900), and Bobby Fischer (b. 1943). Standing: Boris Spassky (b. 1937), the playwright Arrabal (b.1932), and Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946). On the right-hand side: Paul Morphy (1837-1884), François-André Philidor (1726-1795) and Ruy López de Segura (1530-1580). In photos on the left-hand side: Vasily Smyslov (b. 1921), Machgielis (Max) Euwe (1901–1981), Anatoli Karpov (b. 1951), Judit Polgár (b. 1976), Tigran Petrosian (1929-1984), and Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995).

Painting of Great Chess Players by Fernando Arrabal
Whoops! I was lucky to find this site....HEREwhere this pic comes from!

2 Sept 2007

Leone's Art

Leone and Pieter live in Aberystwyth and we met them here in London. Leone is a fantastic artist and some of her work can be seen in Embassies in some countries. I took two pictures, bear in mind that I'm not a professional photographer! but I think it is still good enough to admire and to share. The first two pictures are the two which I photographed and I found the others by a search on Yahoo....
We visited them in Wales and you can follow
this link (and go down with the slider) to look at the pictures in Aber and read more about our visit there.

27 Aug 2007

old books sculptures

Wow, just look at this site! Amazing what some people are thinking of! Why not me first to think of it! Old books

21 Jul 2007

Africa mood

Saturday mood....my Africa mood!! In 7 days....I'm on my continent!! and then my country! South Africa!! No other place in the world is as good as "my" place...South Africa!! Don't try and argue with me...then it shows that you haven't been there! haha!! you better go there....and you would like to go and stay there....
This movie..."Out of Africa" is just a MUST! Robert Redford and Meryl Streep...
"I had a farm in Africa...on the foot of the Ngong Hills....." This is how the movie starts.....and once upon a time..."I" also had a farm....in South Africa.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngong_Hills

15 Jul 2007

Chess and Charlie's Angels

Hello Earl, this first picture is specially for you! :)

This chessboard is a game played by Anand and Alekseev (hope I've got his name right!) The game wasn't finished....this was only at a stage during the game...

Horses! one of my favourite animals!

And........South African artist...J H Pierneef....stamps to commemorate his work!

14 Jul 2007

Chess on stamps

Pointillism: Seurat

I would like my children to do a final piece of art and that will be in the style of Seurat! Read more about pointillism here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointillism

9 Jul 2007

Just Me playing around

This statue by the State Theatre, in Pretoria, is slowly spinning around and at night, there's a spotlight and you can clearly see the two ballerinas turning...amazing...just a pity that theatre lovers can't enjoy art by night like before...due to obvious reasons...

8 Jul 2007

More designs

This first picture is my own variation on the artist Matisse's "Snail"...somewhere on my blog. I've used Paintshop for the other images.

5 Jul 2007

Children's art in the style of Paul Klee

Please click HERE to see images of children's art in the style of Klee.

Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Please click HERE to see more Paul Klee and children's art in the style of Klee.

4 Jul 2007

Fun Stuff

Geniet wat jy hier vind....Enjoy what you found here...

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade--C J Langenhoven...Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future...Paul Kruger... Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven... Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected --Langenhoven... Goeie boeke en musiek verryk jou siel -- Good books and music enrich your soul --Langenhoven... Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved now love the more. --Thomas Parnell

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in--Knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak--Heraclitus, Fragments. Vuil wasgoed is om te was!-- Langenhoven 'I think one move ahead - but it is always the best move'-Reti Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover

There is no failure except in no longer trying--Elbert Hubbard. The secret of success is the ability to survive failure --Noel Coward.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language, it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.~Robert G. Ingersoll

Avoid the crowd, think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece! - Rumi.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy. Chess is the touchstone of the human intellect.-John Wolfgang von Goethe.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley.

Jou persepsie hang alles af van hoe wyd jou opvatting van die digkuns is. - Joan Hambidge.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - Proverb.

I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. Spanish proverb.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates.

Val eerder in my sop as in my rede. - Langenhoven.

See in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future..Paul Kruger - President of the ZAR. Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek. - Langenhoven. Friends should be like books, few, but handselected...Langenhoven.

Good books and music enrich the sould - Langenhoven. The secrete of success is the ability to survive failure. - Noel Coward.

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in..knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak. --Heraclitus, Fragments.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

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