Figment’s Brush with the Masters Scavenger Hunt around Epcot

This past year has been a crazy year for me and my family. One of the biggest changes is that we’ve moved out to Florida! Instead of having Disneyland in my backyard, I now get to explore all of Walt Disney World!

I am super excited for this year’s Epcot International Festival of the Arts! Even though the Festival has been around since 2017, this is the first year I’ve been able to attend. There are so many amazing things to see and do here, but today I’m focusing on one of my family’s favorites, the Scavenger Hunt! 

Mischievous Figment has re-imagined what famous paintings might look like with him as part of the artwork. The paintings are scattered around Epcot’s World Showcase, in each of the different pavilions, and it’s our job to find them. 

Before we can get started, we’re going to need a map. 

It was there, on the back wall, that we discovered our first painting! Ah, I see. These are paintings and need to be protected a little more from the elements.

This golden picture frame with Figment’s bust on it tells us that we found the right one! 

Dreamers’ Woods, inspired by Canadian painter Emily Carr’s Deep Woods (1936), shows Figment taking a stroll through the forest. 

Inspired by English painter Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (1770), this painting is titled Dragon in Blue. 

I’ve seen something similar to this before, haven’t I? The ride Journey Into Imagination with Figment takes us through Figment’s house, and as you go through his living room, you see this painting there too, though he does look a little more portly in the painting above. 

France

For our next land, it’s time to go to France. With so many different nooks and crannies, I wasn’t sure how long this was going to take us. The first two paintings were accessible to anyone walking outside. Would Disney put the next one inside a shop? Let’s go into the Les Halles Patisserie.

Yes, they would! Just behind the register is Reflections of Imagination, inspired by French painter Claude Monet’s Waterlily Pond: Green Harmony (1899). I love that Figment is wearing a French beret and how his reflection blends in so well with Monet’s Impressionist style. 

Titled Pigments of Figment this artwork is not based on a single painting but is instead inspired by Moroccan tile patterns called Zellij. Beautiful!

The Wave of Inspiration is inspired by the Japanese painter Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831). The original shows three boats caught in a giant wave, their passengers bent down and cowering. This version still has the original passengers, but Figment is aboard one of the boats and is paddling it through the waves.  

It’s hidden in a side window, just behind some trash cans. 

Of course, it has to be German-American artist Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851). Dragon Crossing the Delaware shows Figment taking the place of Nathanael Greene, one of George Washington’s most dependable generals.  

The Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa (1817), but in our version, Mona Figment has taken her place. Mona translates to “My Lady” so this is My Lady Figment. 

This is another painting you can see when you visit Journey Into Imagination with Figment, though the differences between the two are striking.

When comparing these to the original Mona Lisa that we saw in the Louvre, which one matches the best?

Titled At The Heart of All Creation (borrowing a line from the “One Little Spark” lyrics), this painting shows Figment taking the place of Cupid from German artist Johann Liss’ Cupid (Amor) (1630). Both Cupid and Figment have wings, though I’m not sure I want Figment to be handling those love arrows! 

In the China pavilion, near the back of the House of Good Fortune, our next painting can be found hiding in an alcove. 

The Ox and the Dragon is inspired by the Qing Dynasty woodblock print Picture of Spring Ox. 

My daughter said she knows where the last two paintings go, because one is up and down, and the other is side to side. Clever girl. I think you’re right, but let’s go find them and make sure. 

The Norway pavilion is next, inside The Fjording store, just to the left as soon as you enter you’ll find the next painting. 

I couldn’t find a title for this painting, but it’s clearly inspired by The Maelstrom (which was replaced by Frozen Ever After in 2016). The three-headed troll you encounter is there, along with the giant Nokken water spirit. A similar painting can be found inside the Anna and Elsa meet and greet nearby in the Royal Sommerhus. 

Our very last painting to find is inside the Mexican pavilion and inside the Pyramid. Right beside La Cava del Tequila is Landscape Near the Volcano Figment. It was inspired by German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas’ Vista del Volcán Colima (1834). He was a European painter who featured the Americas in many of his works. The smoke rising up from the volcano has formed into a smiling Figment head.

Great job family! We’ve completed our quest! 

The kids redeemed their completed artist palette at the Disney Traders store, and for finishing it we are supposed to receive an “Artful Surprise”. 

Let’s Hear From You

Have you participated in an EPCOT scavenger hunt? Which of the Figment art did you like the best? Would you want any one of them to hang up at home?

For more about EPCOT’s International Festival of the Arts, take a look at the article below!

EPCOT Festival of the Arts – The Color, Entertainment and Taste of Creativity

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