With the most romantic holiday just around the corner, choosing last-minute Valentine’s Day gifts can be a real challenge.
However, a “holiday-saving” idea could be to give a puzzle depicting a romantic work of art, to be built together.
A puzzle isn’t just a fun and logically stimulating activity, it’s also a chance to spend some quality time together. And what better occasion than Valentine’s Day to complete a romantic-themed puzzle together?
In fact, among Valentine’s Day gifts , puzzles are not often considered, even though their advantages are many.
If your partner loves art, there’s no doubt about the success a romantic puzzle gift for Valentine’s Day can achieve.
Among the most romantic puzzles you can give for Valentine’s Day, for example, is undoubtedly the one depicting “The Waiting “ by Gustav Klimt , the greatest exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In this majestic painting, a beautiful and evocative Egyptian woman is depicted, who—with her long dress—tells a thousand other stories and evokes just as many emotions.
The colors of this work are warm and delicate, perfect for ensuring that the puzzle is protected by a frame once completed.
The puzzle also represents an excellent opportunity to spend time together, thanks to its 1000 pieces , which will require the couple’s commitment for a few hours.
Among the puzzles of art and love, how could we not mention Hayez’s famous Kiss ? Painted by the artist in several versions, the one that has survived to this day is that of a very much in love couple kissing sweetly, probably before the man says goodbye.
Delicate, romantic, and sweet, with some interesting elements that are far from romantic, the painting lends itself perfectly to becoming a thousand-piece puzzle, thanks to its soft colors and its historical and artistic charm.
In the same vein as ‘The Kiss’, Francesco Hayez created another very evocative and romantic work, in turn inspired by Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy: Romeo and Juliet .
The painting, with its delicate yet vivid nuances, is perfect for a puzzle to complete together. Naturally, the scene depicted is also perfectly suited to the holiday: Romeo and Juliet display all their passion in this kiss, and the girl seems to be trying to hold back Romeo, who instead needs to say goodbye.
Among the puzzles you can give as Valentine’s Day gifts, you don’t have to choose exclusively those with very romantic and sweet themes. A cute and interesting idea could be to choose a fun puzzle, whose colors can evoke love but whose construction is cheerful and stimulating.
A great idea in this regard could be the Impossible Puzzle , based on the work of Guillermo Mordillo . This work depicts a city protest, seen from above. All the people in the puzzle are depicted in very small dimensions, which makes the piece complex to put together, considering it is a jigsaw puzzle with 1,000 pieces.
In this case, the work of Guillermo Mordillo – a world-famous cartoonist – cannot fail to cheer up lovers and keep them busy for a long time on Valentine’s Day, with the aim of completing the puzzle as soon as possible and hanging it.
Another original and fun idea, which in this case can also conceal an additional gift, could be to offer your partner a puzzle by Andrea Kurti , a young contemporary illustrator, which portrays two young stylized lovers intent on passionately kissing in front of the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris.
This work, with its bright colors, stylized lines, and deeply romantic theme, also features an illustration of some hot air balloons, and the puzzle level is quite simple, despite the presence of 1000 pieces.
What’s more evocative, romantic, and sweet than a beautiful natural landscape ? Beyond works depicting passionate kisses and the most profound moments of love, you can evoke beautiful emotions and cheer your partner up with a puzzle depicting a pristine natural landscape.
An example is the puzzle depicting Vincent Van Gogh ‘s ‘ Irises ‘. In this brightly colored work, what catches the observer’s eye is the contrast between the purple of the flowers and the bright green of the leaves, in a juxtaposition of hues that makes the painting extremely lively, as well as suitable for any environment.
Van Gogh, after all, is known for his passion for nature. Indeed, some of his works—including “Iris” itself—represent the artist’s attempt to study nature rather than represent it artistically. However, creating Valentine’s Day gifts using an “Iris” puzzle is undoubtedly an original idea.
Another fitting example, which recalls the theme of love even more intensely, is ‘ The Starry Night Over the Rhone ‘, in which a couple of lovers are depicted walking along the banks of the river, under a clear sky enriched by bright stars.
The contrast between the blue and gold, the couple depicted walking arm in arm and the reflections of the houses and the stars in the river waters make the work very evocative, as well as the ideal candidate for creating a romantic puzzle, simple to complete and undoubtedly of great impact, if displayed at home.
A puzzle as an original Valentine’s Day gift is anything but uninteresting or unromantic. If the puzzle represents a work of art with a highly romantic feel or evokes intense emotions, it’s the perfect Valentine’s Day gift.
