Art, Meet Board Games: The Paintings in Ca$h ‘n Guns
Board games are filled with visual art, from logos to card designs and more. In the case of Ca$h ‘n Guns, there are actual famous paintings that you can steal from your friends. Let’s take a look at the cards and the original masterpieces they pay homage to!
1: Guernica (Picasso, 1937)
Picasso, the famous surrealist, painted this as a reaction to the events of the Spanish Civil War. It has never actually been up for sale, so it doesn’t have a price. It’s now hanging in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
2: The Persistence of Memory (Dali, 1931)
Dali, another surrealist, painted this grotesque dream-like landscape, commenting on the meaninglessness of time. It resides at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
3: The Scream (Munch, 1893)
Edvard Munch’s iconic scream is a well-known piece of modern art that reflects our modern anxiety. The National Museum in Oslo, Norway holds this masterpiece. It sold in 2012 for over $119 million.
4: Girl with a Pearl Earring (Vermeer, 1665)
Dutch artist Vermeer painted this portrait of a young woman, one of his best known works. It’s in the collections of the Mauritshuis in The Netherlands. It was originally acquired for the equivalent of about 30 Euros ($35), and is now considered priceless.
5: Sistine Chapel (Michaelangelo, ~1480)
A Renaissance master, Michaelangelo painted this famous scene of The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. A larger than life masterpiece, it was painted as a fresco into the plaster of the building.
6: Mona Lisa (da Vinci, ~1500)
The famous, smirking Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The subject of this portrait is still debated, and it’s famously on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
7: Haystacks (Monet, 1890s)
Claude Monet, the father of impressionism, painted this series of haystacks in France at different times of day and in different seasons, capturing the delicate changes in light and color. The many paintings of the series are scattered across the world, from the Parisian Musee d’Orsay to the Metropolitan Museum in New York City to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.
8: Unspecified Piet Mondrian work (~1900s)
It’s unclear exactly which Mondrian painting this card refers to, but it’s definitely an homage to the modern art of Piet Mondrian—distinguished by its rigid lines and playful squares of primary colors.
9: Birth of Venus (Botticelli, ~1480s)
Another Renaissance masterpiece, this painting shows Venus, the goddess of love, beauty, and fertility, surrounded by other gods and goddesses such as Zephyr, one of the winds. It’s on display in the Uffizi Gallery in Florency, Italy.
10: Unspecified Rembrandt portrait (~1600s)
This is the card I’m the most uncertain about—although, as all the other cards are from the “greats” of Western art, I think it seems like a good bet that this portrait could be from Rembrandt, who produced many notable portraits in his career.
The playful representations of these masterpieces in the Ca$h ‘n Guns board game pieces are a fun touch to an already fun board game—next time you play, now you can teach your friends about some classic artwork at the same time!
