Dogs Playing Poker
Dogs Playing Poker (English for Dogs Playing Poker) refers to a series of oil paintings by the American artist CM Coolidge, who in 1903 commissioned by the publisher Brown & Bigelow in order to market cigars.
Topic
All paintings in the series show anthropomorphic dogs, the nine images in which dogs are seated around a card table around, were especially well known. The apartment facilities shown in the pictures are in the United States to be typical of slightly pompous status symbols of the working class. The dogs, however, are drawn as independent professionals or as (almost exclusively ) men of the upper middle class. The period when these pictures is also congruent with the rise of poker as a game for soldiers of fortune become a pastime for men of.
Painting
The paintings in the series Dogs Playing Poker are:
- A Bold Bluff ( Original Title: Judge St. Bernard Stands Pat on Nothing)
- A Friend in Need
- His Station and Four Aces
- Pinched with Four Aces
- Poker Sympathy
- Postmortem
- Sitting up with a Sick Friend
- Stranger in Camp
- Waterloo ( Original Title: Judge St. Bernard Wins on a Bluff )
This followed a similar 1910 painting, Looks Like Four of a Kind. Some of the paintings the composition is modeled images of human card players, which are by artists such as Michelangelo, Georges de la Tour and Paul Cézanne.
Perception and criticism
According to the critic Annette Ferrara is Dogs Playing Poker deep in American, if not rooted images memory even in the global collective " Schlock " ( Schlock is Yiddish [ derived from German whipped cream, not to be confused with schmuck ] and referred to a cheap or inferior imitation of Art similar to the kitsch ). The paintings were burned by their non -ceasing reproduction in all kinds of pop culture ephemera indelibly in the subconscious. This is based primarily that the images show dogs and they are represented very anthropomorphic. The poker player and author James McManus other hand, sees the popularity due to the fact that the images " so funny " are. Poker is a game that requires particular brain activity and the idea that dogs would play poker, was " manifestly absurd".
Trivia
The Saint Bernard in the paintings Waterloo and A Bold Bluff was Theodore Long, a florist from the Fifth Avenue, a friend of Coolidge. The name of the dog was Captain.
On 15 February 2005, the originals of A Bold Bluff and Waterloo were purchased at auction by an anonymous buyer for a total of 590 400 U.S. dollars. This is the highest price that a Coolidge painting has scored. Previously, the maximum price was $ 74,000.
In the computer game Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is located in the Brunwalder art collection a copy of Dogs Playing Poker.