Is the poker in Fine Art - such a Thing Existing?
The fans of poker can appreciate the Art of Poker to collect, and there is a rather big industry does not import what that debits art of flea of Great Mario to the photographs monochromes elegant with the titles as Handler of gun and Any Chance. Most of it is nevertheless products principally of the commercial ones, with very few nuance to attract the eye of a connoisseur.
Is in what the player of serious poker - with an eye for the aesthetic one complex game - can have a general interest when it is to challenge a worthy rival done not occupy that is the poker in the art: but the good art existing which is related in a significant way to the poker?
Despite his immense popularity, value references to the game in the art are rare and some admirers cherish them with the pride of elite of the fascinated of some practice edsotedrique wonderful. The poker in the music, to my knowledge, my characteristics principally in the modern compositions, but does not seem to be there the a lot of possibilities for his expression in the sound. The efforts do more succeed are the video of ordinary one accompanied of, and these are limited to the clips of MTV. There are a lot of songs that address the poker, but these offer especially a consolation without conviction, calm in well meaning fans or same by the professionels of poker that are not necessarily big with the words or the music.
The work of art of the poker more significant inspired in the music than I know, and the one that by his nature merges ideally the music with visual, is The Party of Card: The ballet in Three Matters, first danced by Ballet of American Balanchine Together. The music by Stravinsky, that appreciated the poker as the hobby, this is one of the admirers of poker of rarer curiosities could want to see, although is more eccentric more than more precise in to represent the process to play the cards.
In to paint form, the example more evident is the collection of Coolidge of Cassius of Dogs Playing Poker. These were part of an order for 19 commercially oriented pictures that use dogs anthropomorphized. These days, it is not even the original pictures that are idols as much of, as the general concept of canideds that smoking cigar around a table in a weak lit club.
Indeed, a lot of works of art tend to stylize the poker and the card games, the mixture usually with the fantastic themes. The example more evident would be Alice to the country of the wonders. One of Alexander Pushkin most of the popular histories is The Queen of Spades that concern a hopeless player to learn a card turn it had heard about of a friend. The history begins as the realism and peaks as a kind of horror of game of cards: the man if is despaired to learn the secret of the old widow it that keeps that it threatens it with a gun (unloaded), the cause without wanting it to die fear. To funerals, his corpse opens its eyes and its brightnesses to him; then his ghost visits it and unveils at his place the secret. In his first game next the man doubles its possessions. It plays another, but although it knows that it held a have, of a manner or of another, it appears to have played a queen and all lost. It then is committed to lodge 17 of a refuge, being delirious: Three, seven, have it! Three, seven, the queen!. For the film polishes, there is a bafta-nomme 1949 adaptations of fantasy horror of British adaptation of the history by Thorold Dickinson.
In the film, the poker tends to be in a manner realistic criminal (although not necessarily more precise), Childlike one of Cincinnati to Baseball, with Edward Norton and Matt Damon. The last one did moderately in the window but became a worship film precisely because of his decent representation of the playing process. Three years Martin Scorsese preceding gave us a memorable sequence to Casino where a pair of players of poker of against is detected manner experte and is deprived capacity to cheat in the future close by means of a hammer and effective threats of poker-visage as for the Niro.
Posted on March 6, 2010.