Chess Strategy

"Chess Strategy" by Harsh Sethi is a captivating surrealistic masterpiece that centers on the outline of a face, intricately layered with symbolic elements. The painting predominantly features dark blue and black borders with mesmerizing light blue gradients in concentric ellipses, creating a semi-cuboidal shape on a dark blue background. The skeletal face in textured brown with golden highlights embodies a chess horse's head, with intricate details within its eyes and mouth. The right eye amalgamates an introverted queen and aspects of the king and pawns, while the left eye exhibits a clock with multiple sword-like hands. The mouth is sealed with a cluster of jail bars. Around the skeletal face are 4 three-dimensional bars extending towards the viewer, housing bishops, pawns, and a chequered chess board moving into the face with a fallen horse, all rendered in cream and brown tones. The face, seemingly worried, forms its head using the fallen horse's head, symbolizing the tension and contemplation involved in strategic chess play.

Year: 2018

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Type of Work: Surrealism

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Artist: Harsh Sethi