Relatively recent Victory Artistic and Gold Box series puzzles, another Super-Cut one, and conclusions from this recent vintage puzzle binge. (about 6700 words; 50 pictures)
Hi, Bill. Thanks for your latest posting. I had to laugh inwardly at myself when I saw that you’d be discussing Hayter puzzles from the 1970s. I thought, “Oh, good, now we’ve arrived at the modern era,” followed quickly by a realization that the 1970s were half-a-century ago. I guess I reflexively think of whatever happened within my own lifetime as “current events!”
For this particular essay, I think it was a good idea to display each puzzle as complete before building up the stages of assembly gradually. That doesn’t mean I think you need to present things in that order during each of your essays; I just think it suited your work well this time around.
“Blossom Time” is a lovely image, and I agree with you (though I am no expert) that it seems to have been turned into an especially well-cut puzzle. The figural pieces you revealed to us by showing the underside of the puzzle appeal to me, and even the very regular positioning of those. I think that I’d have been expecting about when another figural was about to appear if I had been doing this puzzle myself, which might have been fun.
The picture by the artist Sedlacek used for “The Slave Market” was a surprise to me. That was a painting I’d never seen before. When I noticed in Parts 1 & 2 of your current series of postings that “The Slave Market” in puzzle form would be discussed in Part 3, I was expecting an image from a painting I did already know, that being “A Slave Market in Asia Minor” (sometimes just known as “Slave Market”) by the French painter Devedeux.
By the way, I really like Sedlacek’s “A Woman with a Red Flower.”
Thanks, Greg. I also have trouble thinking about events that took place during my lifetime as now being history.
Yes, while assembling Blossom Time I did find myself anticipating where figural pieces would be placed and that helped with a challenging assembly.
Thanks for your tip about the Devedeux painting. I had overlooked that orientalist artist in my previous research I looked into it and found that he is considered one of the most important orientalist painters at the time, and that painting was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Salon and was bought by Napoleon III. And it turns out, Devedeux he had travelled extensively in Ottoman Turkey. I have amended my essay in the blog/archive to add both that painting and a paragraph about him to my write-up.
Hi, Bill. Thanks for your latest posting. I had to laugh inwardly at myself when I saw that you’d be discussing Hayter puzzles from the 1970s. I thought, “Oh, good, now we’ve arrived at the modern era,” followed quickly by a realization that the 1970s were half-a-century ago. I guess I reflexively think of whatever happened within my own lifetime as “current events!”
For this particular essay, I think it was a good idea to display each puzzle as complete before building up the stages of assembly gradually. That doesn’t mean I think you need to present things in that order during each of your essays; I just think it suited your work well this time around.
“Blossom Time” is a lovely image, and I agree with you (though I am no expert) that it seems to have been turned into an especially well-cut puzzle. The figural pieces you revealed to us by showing the underside of the puzzle appeal to me, and even the very regular positioning of those. I think that I’d have been expecting about when another figural was about to appear if I had been doing this puzzle myself, which might have been fun.
The picture by the artist Sedlacek used for “The Slave Market” was a surprise to me. That was a painting I’d never seen before. When I noticed in Parts 1 & 2 of your current series of postings that “The Slave Market” in puzzle form would be discussed in Part 3, I was expecting an image from a painting I did already know, that being “A Slave Market in Asia Minor” (sometimes just known as “Slave Market”) by the French painter Devedeux.
By the way, I really like Sedlacek’s “A Woman with a Red Flower.”
Cheers, and thanks again, Bill.
—Greg
Thanks, Greg. I also have trouble thinking about events that took place during my lifetime as now being history.
Yes, while assembling Blossom Time I did find myself anticipating where figural pieces would be placed and that helped with a challenging assembly.
Thanks for your tip about the Devedeux painting. I had overlooked that orientalist artist in my previous research I looked into it and found that he is considered one of the most important orientalist painters at the time, and that painting was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Salon and was bought by Napoleon III. And it turns out, Devedeux he had travelled extensively in Ottoman Turkey. I have amended my essay in the blog/archive to add both that painting and a paragraph about him to my write-up.