If you're one of those people who still haven't watched Netflix's 'Squid Game', the runaway superhit show that's making the rounds on social media as well as in our collective psyche because of how unique it is, you're missing out big time.

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Apart from the fact that it has emerged as one of Netflix's most viewed shows of all time, the little quirks here and there intertwined among the storyline are what make it the hit that it is.

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However, there is one more thing that the makers sneakily inserted, that is blowing the minds of art enthusiasts. They managed to include four hidden art references in the series that are obvious but elusive at the same time. Take a look!

1. 'The Scream' by Edvard Munch (1893)

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The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangular table for 39 mythical and historical famous women. Sacajawea, Sojourner Truth, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Empress Theodora of Byzantium, Virginia Woolf, Susan B. Anthony, and Georgia O'Keeffe are among the symbolic guests. It was featured during the last dinner scene with the three finalists before the final task.

3. The Rothschild Surrealist Ball (1972)

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According to The Rake, "few parties are genuine works of art, but the Rothschilds’ 1972 ball sounds and looks like it came close. Semi-curated by the founder of surrealism and played out by the leading ladies of the day, it was (like Buñuel’s seventies films) a self-satirising social labyrinth, a Garden of Earthly Delights in a secret forest, endless immersive theatre avant la lettre." As soon as you see the 8th episode with the VIPs, it will be evident what the makers were referring to. Disturbing? Yes. Impressive? YES!

4. Relativity by M. C. Escher (1953)

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Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. All of the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads. The internal structure of the facility where the games are being held, is modelled on the same.

All we can say is, we're super impressed!

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