Artist Tim Liddy works almost sole in oil paintings . But these are n’t your typical oil paintings of pastoral scenes or abstract shapes . Based on the illustrated boxwood lids of plank game , Liddy ’s oeuvre is social comment that point out how far we ’ve come over the decennium as a society . As Liddy read on his Web site , " in these day of ubiquitous telecasting , computing machine computer simulation , and real time on - line phantasy games , the historical marker of board game and their packaging is intimately forgotten . Yet , those here and now : of generational specificity is extremely articulate in the simple kitsch of board game box top graphics . Are we really too surprised to find out that the 1943 stock marketplace game call Speculation only has white Male on the cover ? "
I have it off take in Liddy ’s attention to detail , recreating not only the boxtop , but the way it ’s been erroded with meter — magnetic tape , bruises , stains , we get it all , remind us of how , in therealworld , we last our lives with our board games . They are n’t thing to be change state off and forgotten . If any of you have any experience with some of the more vague one on the list , get us jazz what they were like ! There ’s dozens more onLiddy ’s Web site . Update!I reached out to Tim Liddy about the fake games , which I think were just fun extensions of the existent ones . This is what he had to say : " I usually mix in my exhibitions with survive games and strictly fictional ones . I never tell which are which . But since you wrote such a compact review I ’ll give a clew : you could search far and wide for a gay G.I. Joe game circa 1967 and you might come up empty . Not saying that they did n’t make one ! ! "
1. Battleship; ca. 1967
2. Barbie
3. Speculation; ca. 1948
4. G.I. Joe; ca. 1967
5. Assembly Line; ca. 1953
6. Test Driver; ca. 1956
7. Bulls and Bears; ca. 1936
8. Shopping at the Supermarket; ca. 1955
9. Oy Vey; ca. 1970
10. Bird Watcher; ca. 1959
