Art inspired by card games

Card entertainment brings pleasure and, to some extent, benefits (if we talk about the financial component) not only to the players themselves, who, by the way, choose Betsafe, but also to representatives of other areas. So art lovers can get acquainted with a similar industry through paintings. There are a number of canvases created by artists who were inspired by card games.

“Card cheats”, Caravaggio (1594)

In the age of online board games, it’s hard to imagine that in the 1500s, the artist Caravaggio depicted in one of his works, which he called “Card Cheats”, three men around a table at which a card game was played. One of them hides the card behind him, and the other, located behind the player, shows his cards to the cheater.

“Card Players”, Cezanne (1890)

This legendary oil painting is on display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and depicts two peasants playing cards on a table that appears to be in a tavern. In the painting, you can see a bottle in the background, and one of the men smoking a pipe. A version of this work was sold in 2011 to the royal family of Qatar. It is estimated that the amount paid was 250 million dollars!

“Dogs Playing Poker”, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1910)

The works in the series “Dogs Playing Poker” by American artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge are known throughout the world and to this day inspire many artists to create stories that appear in films, theaters and various other forms of artistic production. For example, in one series, dogs play cards in the same way that many people do – they drink, smoke and talk.

“Soldiers playing cards”, Fernand Léger (1917)

Léger was a French Cubist painter who was greatly influenced by the art of Cezanne and Picasso. In this work, the author expresses post-World War I mechanization through robotic soldiers, in the best Cubist style of playing cards. Industrial aesthetics is also present in the painting of this artist. The work was completed while Léger was in the hospital recovering from participation in the Battle of Verdun.