František Chochola is perhaps not a household name, but he was quite an accomplished man. He has the illustrations to countless books to his name,…
CIPC #448: Karina Schaapman, Sam & Julia
Writing a children’s book must be easy. The story is short and simple. You don’t need to come up with creative metaphors or beautiful sentences,…
CIPC #439: Johnson, The winner
It’s very rare that I write about paintings on this blog. But it’s far rarer even that I write about a sculpture. In fact, I’ve…
CIPC #433: Larsson, Schackspelet
Every once in a while, I like to give this blog a temporary and unconvincing sheen of refinement by spotlighting a painting. Since the current…
CIPC #427: Stained glass window
This has never happened before and it’s never going to happen again: I’m talking about a stained glass window. Yes, an honest-to-God medieval stained glass…
CIPC #162: M. C. Escher, Metamorphose II
I assume, I guess, I hope, that Dutch artist M. C. Escher needs no introduction. His lithographs and woodcuts have penetrated the farthest corners of…
CIPC #158: Mysterium
More than one hundred posts ago, I talked about dixit, a popular card game featuring a bunch of highly surrealistic but beautifully drawn cards, on…
CIPC #153: Kilburne, A game of chess
Let’s get this new year started for real! Now with some shitty pop music, like last year, not with an obscure publicity photo, like 2018,…
CIPC #143: Stone, Impending mate & Mated
Some twenty years ago, there was a regular contributor to the magazine Chess writing under the name C. P. Ravilious. He mainly wrote a column…
CIPC #116: Kelly, The plateau of chess
Unless you are a connoisseur of the graphic arts, the name Leon Kelly probably doesn’t mean much to you, so a short biographic note seems…