Ahoy! Complete the swashbuckling new hidden objects puzzle from Tim’s Printables! The theme of today’s activity is “Pirates!” There are 35 objects to find that don’t quite belong in the scene. Can you find the pizza slice, the needle, the golf club, and more?
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Hidden Objects – Argh! Here Be Pirates!
The scene show two pirates, a captain and a sailor, fighting with swords aboard a pirate ship. The drawing style is a the ligne Claire (“French for ‘clear line’), similar to Herge’s TinTin comics. Below is the black and white version of the puzzle.
Hidden Objects Puzzles – A Bit of History
Today, hidden object puzzles, (also known as hidden pictures) are popular brain teasers found in various children’s magazine throughout the world. The goal of the puzzle is to find all the hidden objects that don’t belong. The concept originated long ago in Europe, where painters such as Hieronysmus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Hans Jurgen Press created complex oil paintings filled with intricate details to discover upon close observation.
Such illustrations could provide hours of entertainment for children, in a time when animated cartoons and widely available media did not exist. Back then, the drawings did not contain illogical objects. (There was, however, an interesting artist named William Hogarth (1754) who purposely created false perspective.)
Today, however, in addition to including intricate details, the puzzles include objects that would not naturally occur in the scene.
In visual art, highly detailed drawings are known as ‘horror vacui’, latin for ‘fear of empty space.’ Notable examples of this include “Where’s Waldo?” by Martin Hansford, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, and the Scrooge McDuck comics by Don Rosa.
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_object_game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimmelbilderbuch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder