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Amazing LEGO Art by Nathan Sawaya

June 29, 2009

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates very nice pieces using some unlikely things, mostly LEGO bricks. Sawaya has some portraits, logos, large and small sculptures ... all made of bricks. As you will see here, his work is very amazing since he puts together lots of bricks to form very nice and unique work. He is currently touring North American museums in a show titled The Art of the Brick, an exhibition focused exclusively on LEGO as a way of art.

"Sawaya is a surrealist mash-up of forms and artists. Imagine Frank Lloyd Wright crossed with Ray Harryhausen, or Auguste Rodin crossed with Shigeru Miyamoto, and you start to get a sense of where Sawaya is coming from". Scott Jones

I bumped into his work when I was reading a local newspaper and they mentioned his work and the touring. As I really liked the one piece I saw I decided to search more about the artist and his pieces. I really think that this kind of art is impressive not only because of it's looks but also because of the whole process of putting together a huge amount of bricks to form a great final piece. The artist must be not only creative but also very patience to do that. Who as a kid didn't try do create cool stuff out of LEGO? For sure our tries were not this good, maybe only for our moms. ;)

Find more about Nathan Sawaya and his work online at:
The Art of the Brick
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Click at the images to visit Sawaya's page and check out more about each piece. Enjoy!! :)

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42 Comments

Tiago06/29/2009

Amazing pieces.
The mirror one is just fantastic!

Anonymous06/29/2009

Looks very pixelated to me.

TipSquirrel06/29/2009

Wonderful! Nice to see (I think) it is just the old standard bricks being used too.

You may also be interested in http://www.legoland.co.uk/ a wonderful place

woony06/29/2009

That's amazing! Has to take ages to make!
Great job

Max06/29/2009

Minor, but funny typo in the first paragraph -

'Ass you will see here'

Joel Vardy06/29/2009

Some really awesome talent here, the statues are just imminence!

MateToth06/29/2009

LEGO rocks!
Cool post.

Caitlin06/29/2009

Wow! Those are amazing! Thanks for sharing!

tfw06/29/2009

awesome o:

Vim06/29/2009

Brilliant.... i agree with "woony" must have taken ages to make? very talented

Hot Chipz06/29/2009

Cool!

Anonymous06/29/2009

just so you know it says "Ass" instead of as in the headline

John Davis06/29/2009

Wow, that is truly amazing!

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Locu06/29/2009

Unfortunately lego's cost so darn much. The artwork is awesome, but none of them have less than about $10k in legos in them. It's amazing how LEGO charges $200 for a box of legos that cost less than $2 to make in China.

Television Spy06/29/2009

Exceptional pieces of art , the head with the people coming out was my favorite.

Guy06/29/2009

"Ass you will see here, his work is very amazing since he puts together lots of bricks to form very nice and unique work."

Grammar Nazi06/29/2009

>Ass you will see here

Funny how spellcheck doesn't check grammar...

petern1906/29/2009

i just saw these in person at Kansas City last week!

Tiketa06/29/2009

unbelievable!

CJ06/29/2009

I LOVE legos! I still have all of my Legos from childhood. This is cool, what he's doing with them. Makes me want to break out my container of them.

Maryann Miller06/29/2009

Wonderful works of art. I admire your patience and creativity.

calero06/30/2009

the yellow one its amazing riping the chest nice nice

Helena06/30/2009

This looks interesting but the links http://www.daniel.net don't seem to be working.

Anonymous06/30/2009

awesome post!

and you're welcome

lexi06/30/2009

These are really fantastic-- your creativity is superb. Major kudos, you are definitely one of a kind. Keep up the great art.

saboten06/30/2009

Wow... he must have lots of patience....crazy awesome...

thebestestjeremy06/30/2009

not only are you extremely talented and imaginitive, but you are the most patient person I've come across

Ashy Shoe06/30/2009

Finally, someone who can earn money by playing with Lego.

uundaa06/30/2009

wooow, great!!!

Burn06/30/2009

wow, that's amazing.

SDX06/30/2009

Absolutely amazing. The man in the mirror my particular favourite

_________06/30/2009

awesome work! he makes such cool things!! it must have taken him like 10 years to build all that!!

Highlights:

star wars statue of liberty-that was hilarious
man on the wall-awesome!
man in the mirror-really cool!
city in the hand-(my personal favorite) its so cool!!

Deep06/30/2009

Amazing.. I have been in love with building blocks since my childhood and this is truely inspiring.

Luís López06/30/2009

Great work!!

Nirg06/30/2009

SIMPLY AMAZING. wow

Christofer Blom06/30/2009

Amazing stuff, truly amazing...to mutch time, to little to do :-D

kilinkis06/30/2009

aawweessoommee!!

Simon07/01/2009

This looks interesting but the links don't seem to be working.

magaly07/01/2009

goog work....it's very cool

roboMachineMAN07/07/2009

Nice artworks!

The skier looks like a computergame character with really poor graphics.

Andrew207/12/2009

Genius!

Ashley Adams : Postcard Printing08/27/2009

Wow!! these are breathtaking.. lovely structures and awesome collection of images.. this is so inspiring, we can also make our kids learn some techniques from this.. Hey, has anyone kept a tab on how many blocks have been used for these creations??? Great Job!!!

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