The Art of Magic is featured in a set of five stamps. Illusions can be broken down into several major categories, including production, mental phenomena, defiance of natural laws, vanishing, and transformation. The stamp issuance features these exploits with classic representations: a rabbit in a top hat (production), a fortune teller using a crystal ball (prediction), a woman floating in air (levitation), an empty bird cage (vanishing), and a bird emerging from a flower (transformation).

Pulling something out of a hat, usually a rabbit, is a classic magic trick. That trick is performed rarely today, not because of its difficulty, but both because of protests of animal-rights groups and the mess a rabbit sometimes leaves in the hat.