The Art Puzzle Book

by Susie Hodge, Gareth Moore

THINK YOU KNOW BOSCH FROM BOTTICELLI? MONDRIAN FROM MIRO? THINK AGAIN...

The Art Puzzle Book turns art history on its head by testing your brainpower and perception on some the world's most iconic paintings. Journey from ancient Egypt to 1980s New York solving riddles, discovering hidden secrets and challenging your general knowledge. 

Esteemed art historian Susie Hodge and leading brain trainer Dr Gareth Moore introduce you to 36 iconic pieces of art – including Botticelli's Primavera, Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Picasso's Guernica. For each painting, they reveal fascinating facts about the work and artist (and give clues on what to look for), before challenging you to decipher the art for yourself through carefully crafted questions. Look at art in new ways as you: Decode the hieroglyphs from the Book of the Dead Find new symbols in The Arnolfini Portrait Solve riddles based on The Garden of Earthly Delights Navigate M.C. Escher's gravity-defying staircases Reassemble the Mondrian With over 300 questions, The Art Puzzle Book is designed to entertain and perplex, whether you're an art novice or an art connoisseur. 
Features artworks by: Altichiero, the Limbourg Brothers, Gentile da Fabriano, Jan van Eyck, Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Bruegel the Elder, Paolo Veronese, Basawan and Chetar Munti, Caravaggio, Hendrick Avercamp, Artemisia Gentileschi, Diego Velazquez, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco de Goya, Hiroshige, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Suzanne Valadon, Sonia Delaunay, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, M.C. Escher, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. 

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Eileen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I learned some things reading this book but the level and format are not for me. I took it from the children's section of a French library. It does have "How many big strawberries can you find?" type questions, but also tells the backstory of the artist being raped by her tutor for Judith Slaying Holofernes. It's factual and interesting but the target age is ? There are anagram-style riddles that baffled me and the reproductions of art were on the whole far too small for the detail-oriented questions asked. Answers at the back give a feeling of having failed a test rather than presenting what they think is worth knowing as you go.

[Jo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing! The illustrations are not reproduced with enough clarity & definitely not enough information. You definitely need a magnifying lens!

[Tania · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a fun book!

[Sigo Paolini · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute but really for high schoolers or newbies to art... Rather simplistic...

Here's an example...google the art.

21 Ryōgoku Bridge and the Great Riverbank
Utagawa (Andō) Hiroshige (1797–1858) c.1856
Woodblock print on paper owned by Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

Spanning the Sumida River, the Ryōgoku Bridge was built in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1659.here is a constant flow on the bridge as figures pass each other, crossing each way; and on the river, both passenger and cargo boats can be seen. In the distance, on the opposite bank, are even more figures, and the whole scene is set beneath a fiery red sunset.

Now here's the puzzles...

1 How many boats can you see on the river?
2 How many blue parasols can you count?
3 What letter could the composition be?

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Táto publikácia predstavuje príjemné a nenáročné čítanie, ideálne na dlhé zimné večery. Čitateľom ponúka možnosť objaviť významné diela renomovaných umelcov, pričom často poskytuje aj zaujímavé detaily z pozadia ich tvorby. Obsah knihy je prístupný aj mladším čitateľom, najmä žiakom základných škôl, vďaka jednoduchým a zábavným úlohám. Istým nedostatkom je však menší formát reprodukcií, ktorý môže viesť k strate detailov najmä pri veľkolepých umeleckých dielach. Tento fakt, v kombinácii s tmavšími pasážami niektorých obrazov, môže sťažovať presné odpovede na určité otázky.

[Ruth A secas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es un libro muy guay con mazo acertijos que hacen que nos fijemos en cosas que a lo mejor antes pasábamos por alto, muy top