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Checkmate painting retzsch
Checkmate painting retzsch








checkmate painting retzsch

What is at stake? Getting what you need, your well-being, and the happiness of the people you care about. It's your comeback power and clear path forward. Think of One More Move as the ace in your back pocket when life happens. Billy Graham wrote a famous Sermon (1955 Sermon: Is There An Answer?) about this painting: "But I believe there is One looking down from above who looks upon the board and says to you and me: There is a move, there is one move that you can make, and you can win!" In the words of Nelson Mandela, "It always seems impossible until it's done." The concept of One More Move has appealed to audiences in every corner of the world because it is a message of hope, a state of mind encouraging us to create a better future. The way of thinking and acting that changes everything. The King has one more move, and he will win". "Not Checkmate!" We can imagine the Chess Master saying, "the young man should stay in the game because he is not checkmate. Suddenly, he realizes that there is one more move. He feels sorry for the young man and that the enemy should be defeated. He looks at the arrangement of the pieces left on the chessboard. One More Move In The Game One day a Chess Master (the mentor) studies the painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The young man will need to spot and outsmart it.

checkmate painting retzsch

The spider crawling onto the table is getting ready to set a trap. The chessboard represents our human journey, love, betrayal, hope, frustrations, victories, defeats, mistakes, course correction, happiness, sadness, crescendo, decrescendo, second chances, and achievements.

checkmate painting retzsch

Chess is a struggle, chess battles.” - Garry Kasparov. He created a painting that came to be called Checkmate. However, scholars have affectionately renamed the piece Checkmate, because it showed the human’s impending loss in this contest. He originally named the painting, The Chess Players. In the background, an Angel watches over the young man, ready to intervene. In the 19 th century there was a German Artist by the name of Moritz Retzsch. German painter Freidrich Moritz Retzsch depicted an exacerbated man playing chess with Satan as an angel looked on. (Moritz Retzsch was fascinated by Faust). The stakes are high: The enemy wins his soul if the young man loses. The young man is sitting there with his head bowed. On one side of the painting is the enemy and on the other side is a young man. Two opponents are facing each other across the chessboard. Here's how the story goes (as we see it). What is at Stake? "Checkmate." Painting by Moritz Retzsch(German painter) At, we have always been fascinated with this painting.

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The man who was studying this picture happened to be a world professional chess player, after a brief period of time he came to the shocking understanding that it wasn’t checkmate at all, Faust actually had a possible move. What I found more interesting was the story around this picture or maybe more of the tale, apparently when showing this picture in an art gallery a man stood and examined the picture for a while. The angel in the middle is weeping over the loss of a human soul. In this painting Faust and the Devil are playing a game of chess over Faust’s soul, the Devil seem’s to have a slight grin on his face while he waits realizing Faust has no available moves. One that really stood out to me was of a painter named Moritz Retzsch – Checkmate Friedrich Moritz August Retzsch, a man with a really cool name and possibly a miserably long email address, composed an amazing piece of art depicting an epic battle between the Devil and. My themes have already been decided so it was a case of looking through paintings that connected to my story and that stood out to me personally. Once found hanging on the walls of the Louvre, but now housed in a private collection, a painting entitled, Checkmate, regularly gathered large crowds. Reading Jake’s blog made me see how many different ways you can draw inspiration, one of these being from art. Still carrying on with my new script idea I have started to look for some real inspiration continuing from my past motivations I have found a few more.










Checkmate painting retzsch