Jack-in-the-Box Puzzles Gallery

#53 - Homage to Modern Art

chagall puzzle

back of homage puzzle

Figurals: (top) amorphous blob, Keith Haring's people, Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror, Dali's melting clock
(second row) Man Ray's Les Amourex, Dali fly, signature piece, Andy Warhol's dollar sign, Dali's bee
(bottom row) Gockel's Heart of Fire, Rene Magritte's pipe, Mickey Mouse, Dali's Ascending to Heaven, Miro's star

M.C. Escher's Mosaic II was the inspiration for this mini-puzzle. Each jigsaw puzzle piece represents one of the mosaic animals in Escher's famous work.

mickey mouse
Mickey!


Salvador Dali's famous melting clock is represented here. Note the extended cut representing the table that the clock is melting over.	Rene Magritte's pipe (or is it?) has flowing smoke-lines extending into the adjacent piece.

Homage to Modern Art
oil painting of Le Bouquet Ardent by Marc Chagall

knobby cut
219 pieces
11" x 15.5" (1.3 pieces per square inch)
15 works of modern art represented: 12 as single-piece figurals, 1 multi-piece set of figurals of Keith Haring's work, 1 mini-puzzle of Escher's Mosaic II, and 1 dropped-out representation of Dali's Meditative Rose
bubbly irregular edge

This puzzle was conceived as an homage to modern art. The customer and I picked out a number of our favorite works of art from the major modern art movements, and attempted to symbolize them all in figural form in the puzzle. Expressionism, abstract art, cubism, dadaism, op art, pop art, and surrealism are all represented, among others.