Jüri Arrak
(1936–2022)
Game. 1980
Oil, canvas. 37 x 75 cm (framed)
price 16 000
the illustration depicts four masked persons holding a palaka and a fifth person enjoying an aerial flight. The word "trickster" comes to mind, someone who fools with his words or looks, deliberately confuses. The Palaka seems to show the shadow of the sixth person. The scene takes place against the background of ordinary Estonian nature – a rather low horizon and a blue sky. The vertical direction dominates the painting, but it is not related to religiosity. Do those who have control deliberately bring in the media buffoons to increase viewership? Or has the trickster in the middle of the picture deceived those in control? Anyway, they all seem to be on the same page and doing the same thing.
Such hoax paintings are still created from time to time in order to visualize cheating and open people's eyes with it. Like, for example, Caravaggio's painting "The Card Players" from 1596, which is in the place of honor at the Kimbell Art Museum:https://i.pinimg.com/736x/08/48/71/084871f639e0060e623a9e3b36c2665c.jpg
Such hoax paintings are still created from time to time in order to visualize cheating and open people's eyes with it. Like, for example, Caravaggio's painting "The Card Players" from 1596, which is in the place of honor at the Kimbell Art Museum:https://i.pinimg.com/736x/08/48/71/084871f639e0060e623a9e3b36c2665c.jpg