Chess set pieces by Man Ray Stefi Orazi Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman

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Chess set pieces by Man Ray Stefi Orazi Derek JarmanIn this set, the Surrealist artist Man Ray translates traditional chess pieces into pure geometric forms abandoning all classical and figurative characteristics used to define the pieces. Instead, he composed them of pure Euclidean geometric ideal forms cube, sphere, pyramid and cone. Dadaist that he was, one discordant form was interjected into the set. He based the form of the Knight on a found object in his studio, the head scroll of a violin.