The Art of the Brick

Posted on December 7, 2016 by johnvic8

While we were in San Diego for Thanksgiving with our daughter and her family, we attended a leggo art exhibition.” The Art of the Brick”  at the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park featured the astonishing creations of artist Nathan Sawaya.

I will let the photographs speak for themselves in this slideshow. To give you some sense of scale, the Easter Island monolith in the first photograph contains some 85,000! leggos.

I can only ask myself, “How can someone take these simple tiny children’s toys and make such incredible works of art?” We are blessed that there are such people as Nathan Sawaya who make our lives so much more interesting by their creativity.

About johnvic8

John Viccellio retired after 24 years in the U. S. Navy and began to dig into gardening when he could finally land in one place. He completed the Master Gardener course in 1992 and has since designed and constructed two of his own gardens. He wrote a monthly garden column for ten years and was a regular contributor to Carolina Gardener magazine. John published his first book, Guess What's in My Garden!, in 2014. He lives in Stallings, NC with his wife, in close proximity to six of his eight grandchildren.
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10 Responses to The Art of the Brick

  1. PurplePumpernickel says:
    December 7, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    Wow! Incredible! And quite unbelievable.

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  2. dennyho says:
    December 7, 2016 at 8:27 pm

    What a wonderful exhibit to see! Girl with a Pearl Earring would be my favorite, I have a passion for her on canvas so my vote goes with her in the leggo medium as well.

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  4. Love it Now says:
    December 8, 2016 at 7:28 am

    amazing work! 🙂

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  5. Len Kagami says:
    December 17, 2016 at 1:21 pm

    This was exhibited in Hamburg as well. Among all sculptures, the T-Rex was my favorite 🙂

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