Artistic Vision
This is the metapuzzle for the Art round.
The painting contains one stroke each in red, blue, gold, black, and white. We notice that all of the feeder answers are associated with one or two of these colors.
| Puzzle | Answer | Color(s) | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fine Dining | BOLESLAWIEC POTTERY | Blue and White | Boleslawiec pottery is traditionally painted mostly blue and white. |
| Art of the game.such.fame! | CHICAGO WHITE SOX | White and Black | The Chicago White Sox team colors are these (and also silver, not in the painting) |
| Cute Cats | CATALONIA | Red and Gold | The Catalonia flag is these colors |
| Interpretive Art | RHAPSODY | Blue | A reference to George Gershwin’s famous “Rhapsody in Blue” |
| Graffiti | NABISCO LABEL | Red and White | The Nabisco label is these two colors |
| The Collage | TRIFORCE | Gold | Sometimes called the “golden power”, the triforce in the Legend of Zelda games is usually depicted as gold. |
| Centerpieces | VANDERBILT | Black and Gold | Vanderbilt University’s official colors |
Line intersections in the painting always involve two strokes (or one stroke and itself), so that could be related to the color pairs. We find and mark the places where the strokes of these colors overlap (using self-intersections for the one-color answers). The title and flavor text reference “vision” and “can’t see,” which is a clue to use Braille. We read the marked intersection points as braille, and get our answer: SEEING DOUBLE RAINBOW
You can click on this image to visualize colors. The visualization tool is not part of a puzzle.
