Man Ray Chess Set Coasters and the purification of art

and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression

Approximate Size: 19" X 26"

The clock face appears as a stylized sun

Langkop Design

make up a single element modeled in biscuit

Man Ray Chess Set Coasters and the purification of artWith his long career of pioneering work in painting, sculpture and photography, Man Ray (1890 1976) can readily be regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. In this first design of his relating to chess from 1920, Man Ray abandoned all the overly classical and figurative characteristics used to identify the pieces. Instead, he composed them of the pure Euclidean geometric ideal forms cube, sphere, pyramid and cone. He still