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Amazing LEGO Art by Nathan Sawaya
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
Behance
Click at the images to visit Sawaya's page and check out more about each piece. Enjoy!! :)
42 Comments
Amazing pieces.
The mirror one is just fantastic!
Looks very pixelated to me.
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
That's amazing! Has to take ages to make!
Great job
Minor, but funny typo in the first paragraph -
'Ass you will see here'
Some really awesome talent here, the statues are just imminence!
LEGO rocks!
Cool post.
Wow! Those are amazing! Thanks for sharing!
awesome o:
Brilliant.... i agree with "woony" must have taken ages to make? very talented
Cool!
just so you know it says "Ass" instead of as in the headline
Wow, that is truly amazing!
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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.
Exceptional pieces of art , the head with the people coming out was my favorite.
"Ass you will see here, his work is very amazing since he puts together lots of bricks to form very nice and unique work."
>Ass you will see here
Funny how spellcheck doesn't check grammar...
i just saw these in person at Kansas City last week!
unbelievable!
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.
Wonderful works of art. I admire your patience and creativity.
the yellow one its amazing riping the chest nice nice
This looks interesting but the links http://www.daniel.net don't seem to be working.
awesome post!
and you're welcome
These are really fantastic-- your creativity is superb. Major kudos, you are definitely one of a kind. Keep up the great art.
Wow... he must have lots of patience....crazy awesome...
not only are you extremely talented and imaginitive, but you are the most patient person I've come across
Finally, someone who can earn money by playing with Lego.
wooow, great!!!
wow, that's amazing.
Absolutely amazing. The man in the mirror my particular favourite
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!!
Amazing.. I have been in love with building blocks since my childhood and this is truely inspiring.
Great work!!
SIMPLY AMAZING. wow
Amazing stuff, truly amazing...to mutch time, to little to do :-D
aawweessoommee!!
This looks interesting but the links don't seem to be working.
goog work....it's very cool
Nice artworks!
The skier looks like a computergame character with really poor graphics.
Genius!
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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