of the number of times, we have featured LEGO on our blog,
photographs David Levene/The Guardian, but if you click here you can see them, and here is another masterpiece made of them, Ai Weiwei has completed his largest LEGO piece to date in a recreation
of “Water
Lilies,” one of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet’s most iconic
artworks, Monet’s Water
Lilies series was inspired by the artist’s garden in Giverny,
France, featuring a foot bridge over a pond teeming with wildlife. This idyllic
setting was the design and creation of Monet himself, who at the turn of the
20th century had the nearby River Epte partially diverted in order to bring his
vision to life,
Monet’s brushstrokes in his water and reflection landscapes
are replaced by about 650,000 studs of Lego bricks, in
22 vivid colours, in the 15-metre-long work at the centre of Weiwei’s biggest UK
show in eight years, opening next month, entitled Water Lilies #1, it
is the largest Lego artwork by the celebrated global artist since he first
adopted the medium in 2014 to produce portraits of political prisoners, and
will span the entire length of one of the walls of the Design Museum
gallery in Kensington, west London, where his first design-focused exhibition
opens on Friday 7 April to July 30 in London, you can follow more updates
on Instagram,
and read the original story here at The Guardian, is there anything that can not be built of LEGO?
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