tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9392858793763551132024-03-13T09:13:29.848-04:00ArtisticBricksBut is it art?Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-28438219467791957042019-04-02T11:40:00.002-04:002019-04-02T11:40:57.605-04:00Arthur Gugick, 1960-2019Hi all, I know this blog has been dormant for a long time, but I just saw a notice on Facebook that <a href="http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=arthur-gugick&pid=192044803&fhid=2098">Arthur Gugick</a> died in a car crash a few days ago. Arthur was a father and math teacher and, the reason I'm noting him here, an AFOL. You may remember him primarily for microscale recreations of world architectural landmarks, also amazing mosaics, along with other MOCs that you can see <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10321180@N08/">in his Flickr stream</a>. I've <a href="http://artisticbricks.blogspot.com/search?q=gugick">featured his work here on multiple occasions</a> as he has made several mosaics based on famous artworks. Indeed his last posted MOC was also a mosaic, an experiment in <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10321180@N08/39924060363/in/dateposted/">tiling patterns</a> that to me comes out looking like a quilt, which as a form of folk art has a proper home here in this blog.<br />
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10321180@N08/39924060363/in/dateposted/"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7848/39924060363_113b93231b.jpg" /></a>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-84406146640681904352016-07-22T16:42:00.002-04:002016-07-22T16:42:23.819-04:00Nerdly with a Doughnut EarringLast fall Tommy Williamson hosted a <a href="http://bricknerd.com/home/we-have-winners-4-2015?rq=nerdvember">Nerdvember</a> contest, challenging builders to recreate his blog's mascot <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/geekytom/8736876124/">Nerdly</a> (a red 2x2 LEGO brick wearing thick glasses). Kosbrick came up with <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kosmassantosa/22284419634/">Nerdly with a Doughnut Earring</a>, a parody of the Vermeer portrait.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Meisje_met_de_parel.jpg/800px-Meisje_met_de_parel.jpg" height="300"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-20592355566814125752015-12-16T13:24:00.003-05:002015-12-16T13:24:42.982-05:00Woman with a ParasolMonet painted his wife Camille and their son Jean out for a stroll in 1875. The original is found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. This <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiredforsound23/16834613205/">LEGO version</a> by Katie Prill was on display at Bricks Cascade earlier this year. <a href=""></a> <a href=""></a> <a href=""></a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_with_a_Parasol_-_Madame_Monet_and_Her_Son"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Claude_Monet_-_Woman_with_a_Parasol_-_Madame_Monet_and_Her_Son_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/800px-Claude_Monet_-_Woman_with_a_Parasol_-_Madame_Monet_and_Her_Son_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" height="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-2059590367092325012015-12-15T12:17:00.000-05:002015-12-15T12:17:07.235-05:00Venus de MiloThe Venus de Milo is a Greek sculpture, presumably of Aphrodite, dating to between 100 and 130 BC. It was discovered on the island of Milos and now resides in the Louvre. As a very famous piece, she's been depicted in LEGO form many times, including these:
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dm_meister/3553072417">Dirk VH</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10755528@N08/8100517804/">Brian Kescenovitz</a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10755528@N08/8100517804/"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8329/8100517804_0b151a607b.jpg"></a><br><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/constantconcepts/4968476512/">Constant Concepts</a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/constantconcepts/4968476512/"><img src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4092/4968476512_0e8089c37a.jpg"></a><br><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/15531435367/">Nathan Sawaya</a><br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Venus_de_Milo_Louvre_Ma399_n2.jpg" height="500"></a><br><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-71942811689721891772015-12-13T12:17:00.000-05:002015-12-13T12:17:22.757-05:00Louvre<a href="http://brickset.com/sets/21024-1/Louvre">21024 - The Louvre</a> is an official set released in the Architecture line of microscale landmarks. The Louvre, of course, is one of the most famous art museums in the world. It was originally a palace of the royal family of France, but now houses such famous artworks as the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory.
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<a href="http://brickset.com/sets/21024-1/Louvre"><img src="http://images.brickset.com/sets/images/21024-1.jpg?201508271142" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-66063923566850962362015-12-06T08:33:00.002-05:002015-12-06T08:33:28.846-05:00Yoko OnoMost of us think of Yoko Ono in terms of her connection to John Lennon, but he is an artist in her own right (I believe they met at one of her exhibitions, but I'm basing that on a TV biopic of their life so might be wrong). She had a show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York this summer, and was celebrated in <a href="http://observer.com/2015/08/yoko-ono-in-lego/">LEGO form</a> by Veronica Watson (previously blogged <a href="http://artisticbricks.blogspot.com/2015/09/guernica.html">here</a>) along with her piece Apple, a real apple which ripens and then decays over the course of the exhibit.
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<a href="http://observer.com/2015/08/yoko-ono-in-lego/"><img src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/unnamed-41.jpg?quality=80&w=635" width="500"></a><br>
<a href="http://observer.com/2015/08/yoko-ono-in-lego/"><img src="https://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/gettyimages-473060208.jpg?quality=80&w=635" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-61664426977788085072015-10-13T13:57:00.003-04:002015-10-13T13:57:42.756-04:00Welcome to GazaEarlier this year, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/banksy-gaza-undercover_n_6761036.html">Banksy went to Gaza</a>, creating a series of works highlighting destruction and the lives of the Palestinians, including this kitten <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thebrickavenger/21142280235/in/pool-1064871@N20/">recreated in LEGO</a> by TheBrickAvenger
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/banksy-gaza-undercover_n_6761036.html"><img src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2659464/thumbs/o-CAT-900.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-22689028893303218752015-09-07T14:09:00.000-04:002015-09-07T14:09:00.091-04:00Picasso does GeishaLet's finish up our little Picasso retrospective with some humor with Graham Minchin's <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtm_wa/7420114062/">Picasso does Geisha</a>.
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtm_wa/7420114062/"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7251/7420114062_181ceba55f.jpg"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-11987850700637275832015-09-06T14:09:00.000-04:002015-09-06T14:09:00.387-04:00Girl with Red Beret<a href="">Girl with Red Beret</a> is another Picasso work, from around 1911. Bill Vollbrecht made this <a href="">LEGO version</a> when he worked at Legoland California.
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<a href="http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1127275"><img src="http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/mwv1970/Legoland/picasso-girl.jpg" height="500"></a><br>
<a href="http://paintingandframe.com/buy/pablo_picasso_girl_with_red_beret_art_print-14355.html"><img src="http://paintingandframe.com/uploadpic/pablo_picasso/big/girl_with_red_beret.jpg" height="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-15523051207893050442015-09-05T13:57:00.000-04:002015-09-05T13:57:00.268-04:00Don QuixoteArthur Gugick made <a href="">two</a> <a href="">versions</a> of the 1955 Picasso sketch Don Quixote using different LEGO mosaic techniques.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_(Picasso)"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Donquixote.JPG" height="320"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-78579386628995703342015-09-04T13:49:00.000-04:002015-09-04T13:49:00.187-04:00Woman with a BookWoman with a Book by Pablo Picasso is a portrait of his mistress, Marie-Therèse Walter. Dave Ware made this <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/brickwares/2828632594/">LEGO version</a>.
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<a href="http://worldpaintings.tumblr.com/post/41606899559/pablo-picasso-woman-with-a-book-1932-oil-on"><img src="http://41.media.tumblr.com/86eedb627193f036c35d862bbe344667/tumblr_mhaf9sZYEs1qep93so1_500.jpg" height="350"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-67043283644733081102015-09-03T13:45:00.002-04:002015-09-03T13:45:11.810-04:00GuernicaOn April 26, 1937, the German air force carried out a bomb raid on the civilian population of the village of Basque town of Guernica at the behest of the nationalist government of Spain. In response to this Pablo Picasso painted his anti-war painting Guernica, which has become a symbol of the horrors of war around the world and especially of civilian casualties. The original painting, which is over three meters tall and 7 meters wide, can be seen in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain. However, you can see a <a href="">LEGO rendition by Veronica Watson</a> at the Legoland Discovery Center at the Ridge Hill megamall in Westchester, New York. In describing her LEGO work, she said:
<blockquote>“I was familiar with ‘Guernica’ before recreating it in Lego,” Watson tells Hyperallergic. “It is probably my favorite of Picasso’s Cubist works. This style used to represent the chaotic subject matter of the Spanish Civil War makes it an incredibly powerful piece in 1937 and in 2014. The most difficult aspect of making the Lego version was deciding how much detail to include. There is a lot going on in the painting. Rather than explicitly recreating every detail, I worked at suggesting the right forms so that the painting would be instantly recognizable.”</blockquote>
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<a href="http://hyperallergic.com/158122/behold-picassos-guernica-remade-in-legos/"><img src="http://hyperallergic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lego-picasso-guernica-2.jpg" width="500"></a><br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/PicassoGuernica.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-78148367543528618762015-08-29T06:53:00.000-04:002015-08-29T06:53:00.601-04:00Never has so muchAlex Eylar built a <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/5125017564/">Banksy quote</a> that echoes a famous line by Churchill. The full Banksy quote is: "The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little." <br>
I prefer the shadows, but he also has the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/5125017042/in/album-72157603920594982/">direct photo</a>.
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/5125017564/"><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4027/5125017564_843266949f.jpg"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-50228551642756323462015-08-28T06:48:00.003-04:002015-08-28T06:48:37.892-04:00Pulp Fiction BananasPulp Fiction Bananas by Banksy appeared on a wall in London in 2007, but was removed because it was "too violent".
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/legominifig/15064019639/">Nick Sweetman</a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/legominifig/15064019639/"><img src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3878/15064019639_770c30d9ae.jpg"></a><br>
<a href="http://www.thebrickfantastic.com/new-gallery-bricksy-lego-banksy/">Jeff Friesen</a><br>
<a href="http://www.thebrickfantastic.com/new-gallery-bricksy-lego-banksy/"><img src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53151e52e4b064db76a2df10/5382483ce4b0ea0513deb209/53824843e4b0ea0513deb212/1423667673541/lego_banksy_pulp_fiction_bananas.jpg?format=500w" width="500"></a><br>
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<a href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/banksy-art-prints/pulp-fiction-bananas/"><img src="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/2013/04/Pulp-Fiction-Bananas-by-Banksy.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-58013291031998666982015-08-27T14:44:00.001-04:002015-08-27T14:44:34.254-04:00Girl with a Red BalloonSeveral months ago I <a href="http://artisticbricks.blogspot.com/2015/04/banksy-flower-thrower.html">wrote about</a> LEGO creations based on Flower Thrower by street artist Banksy. Another popular work by Banksy is <a href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/banksy-art-prints/girl-with-a-balloon/">Girl with a Balloon</a> that first appeared in 2002 in the South Bank neighborhood of London. Here are a number of LEGO renditions of this work, or that reference this work:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.thebrickfantastic.com/new-gallery-bricksy-lego-banksy/">Jeff Friesen</a><br>
<a href="http://www.thebrickfantastic.com/new-gallery-bricksy-lego-banksy/"><img src="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/53151e52e4b064db76a2df10/5382483ce4b0ea0513deb209/54da90c6e4b0f48761169212/1423668183130/" width="500"></a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/teamboob/14791194849/">Team Boob</a> (or maybe they were taking pictures of anonymous street art<br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/legominifig/5953627775/">Nick Sweetman</a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/legominifig/5953627775/"><img src="https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6135/5953627775_a344cc4a03.jpg"></a><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/58887225@N06/15065520638/">Ben Waters</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/xanderburgess/14982111094/">Xanderburgess</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/libra42/5447755597/">Silvia</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/banksy-art-prints/girl-with-a-balloon/"><img src="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/2012/09/Girl-with-a-Balloon-by-Banksy.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-63038347550192373072015-08-19T02:37:00.000-04:002015-08-19T02:37:36.374-04:00BarcodeKosmas Santosa built <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/kosmassantosa/16605586178/in/dateposted/">Barcode</a> in protest of his nation of Indonesia's rank as the the top nation in the world in deforestation.
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/85818809@N04/15631309273/"><img src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7548/15631309273_6b372e47d1_n.jpg" height="300"></a> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/54142464@N08/6074461103/"><img src="https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6084/6074461103_4b0bc65e69_n.jpg" height="300"></a><br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/112962905@N05/16920964741/"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8717/16920964741_0dc5bdfc28.jpg" width="300"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-23660535996186543462015-08-14T15:20:00.002-04:002015-08-14T15:20:57.830-04:00Concrete GamesSharon Pazner is an Israeli artist from Tel Aviv. Check out her <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonpazner/">Flickr stream</a> to see lots of pieces using interesting materials like concrete and cut paper. Here are some works from her <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sharonpazner/17004043029/in/dateposted/">Concrete Games</a> exhibition earlier this year.
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(Okay, that last one had no LEGO, but it was probably my favorite.)Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-78653805695268232132015-08-07T16:47:00.001-04:002015-08-07T16:47:13.071-04:00Card PlayersI've <a href="http://artisticbricks.blogspot.com/2013/10/les-joueurs-de-cartes.html">previously noted</a> a LEGO rendition of one of Paul Cézanne's five paintings of Les Joueurs de Cartes (The Card Players). Here's another by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitreolum/16952641766/in/pool-975302@N21/">Letranger Absurde</a>.
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Card_Players"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Card_Players-Paul_Cezanne.jpg/714px-Card_Players-Paul_Cezanne.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-37809998359547100152015-08-05T14:02:00.000-04:002015-08-05T14:02:11.120-04:00Bob RossI'm sure a lot of people dismiss <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99717434@N04/19880771778/">Bob Ross</a> (here as a LEGO fig by TheMooseFigs), but his PBS show The Joy of Painting introduced people across the country to, well, the joy of painting from 1983 to 1994. He had a lightning-fast style of putting paint on the canvas and it amazingly always came out as some sort of landscape. His most famous catchphrase is "happy little trees". He came across as a really nice guy, and I always thought he would be wonderful to spend time with. He died of complications from lymphona in 1995, but you can still watch old episodes of the show on the official <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc">YouTube channel</a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Klimt)"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/The_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg/1024px-The_Kiss_-_Gustav_Klimt_-_Google_Cultural_Institute.jpg" height="320"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-68890621645621731152015-06-08T15:42:00.002-04:002015-06-08T15:42:34.030-04:00Le Visage de la PaixA few years ago French AFOLs hosted a collaborative build of Picasso's <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ronan_yopunk/sets/72157629903489606">Le Visage de la Paix</a> <a href=""></a> <a href=""></a> <a href=""></a> <a href=""></a>
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<a href="http://www.catawiki.fr/catalog/images-graphiques/artistes/picasso-pablo/3917827-le-visage-de-la-paix-xix"><img src="http://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2013/7/20/7/4/6/74672e0a-f125-11e2-816b-c0706d0f4c22.jpg" width="500"></a><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-60316190942630556862015-05-01T11:08:00.001-04:002015-08-27T14:56:25.822-04:00More Flower ThrowersA few more Flower Throwers and related works:<br><br>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dark-alamez/16315213909">LEGOlization</a> by Dark-Alamez.<br>
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<a href="http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/402604">Banksy-Claus</a> by Tyler Halliwell.<br>
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<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tigmon74/5609919693">Banksy Returns</a> by Hans Dendauw.<br>
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BTW, this last also references <a href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/banksy-art-prints/thisll-look-nice-when-its-framed/">another Banksy piece</a> found in San Francisco in 2010.<br>
<a href="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/banksy-art-prints/thisll-look-nice-when-its-framed/"><img src="http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/2013/04/Thisll-Look-Nice-When-Its-Framed-by-Banksy.jpg" width="500"></a><br><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-33745300695076340182015-04-28T12:08:00.001-04:002015-04-28T12:08:27.789-04:00Banksy - Flower ThrowerStreet art, graffiti art, post-graffiti, neo-graffiti, guerrilla art - I'm not really sure if these terms are completely synonymous or if there are subtle distinctions, but I've seen all of these terms applied to <a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.asp">Banksy</a>. Banksy is an unknown artist (or maybe a group? I've seen lots of different theories) whose work first appeared in Bristol in the 90's and has since been found in public places around the world. Of course, many of these works have been recreated in LEGO form. One famous work, Flower Thrower, first appeared in Palestinian Jersualem in 2003. <br><br>
Here's a version by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/pluribus/17132289255/">Greg 50</a>.<br>
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And another by <a href="http://www.thebrickfantastic.com/">Jeff Friesen</a>. BTW, follow that link for a great number of LEGO Banksy renditions, and he also has a book coming out later this year.<br>
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Two more by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/5511213534">Alex Eylar</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/85818809@N04/15172889455">Klyph R'ha Ben Sun</a>. <br>
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Here is the <a href="http://www.thedepartureboard.com/banksy-art-in-bethlehem-and-palestine/">original</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.thedepartureboard.com/banksy-art-in-bethlehem-and-palestine/"><img src="http://www.thedepartureboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Banksy-Flower.jpg" width="500"></a><br><br>Bricktaleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010396251695031167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-939285879376355113.post-21168389830135910982015-03-30T15:33:00.000-04:002015-03-30T15:33:00.214-04:00Sign of the TImes: Failure of the Fourth Estate<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/7931559@N08/15429701386/in/photostream/">Sign of the TImes: Failure of the Fourth Estate</a>, an original piece by Mike Doyle, 2014
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