Mechanical Turk

Hans Heiner Buhr • Pittura, 2021, 160×200 cm
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1704 × 1237 px • JPEG
44.1 × 35.3 cm • 89 dpi
28.9 × 20.9 cm • 150 dpi
14.4 × 10.5 cm • 300 dpi
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Disciplina artistica: Pittura
Soggetto e oggetti: Pittura mitologica, Genere allegoria
Tecnica: Acrilico
Materiali: Tela
Data di creazione: 2021
Dimensioni: 160×200 cm
Venditore: Hans Heiner Buhr
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Descrizione del quadro «Mechanical Turk»

The "Mechanical Turk" was an invention, a fraudulent chess machine from 1770 that was apparently able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent.

The fraud was later exposed. A small human was hidden inside the machine, who unrecognizedly controlled the moves of the "Mechanical Turk".

My picture shows the "Mechanical Turk" who doesn't play chess, but paints a picture at the easel.

Like a painter who mechanically implements an idea and suddenly thinks that he should actually paint the picture completely differently.

I painted the picture in 2021 in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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