We have buckets and buckets of lego at our house but I’ve never seen any creation as artistic as these that I’ve found.  Not that I’m dissing my kids but these are truly amazing!

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This Andy Warhol/Marilyn Munroe inspired piece is pretty cool.  It uses a “girl” lego head to recreate Andy Warhol’s piece.  I don’t think any lego girls have hair like this one but the head itself is full on lego.

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These next few pieces are from an artist named Nathan Sawaya.  He’s an amazing artist from New York who’s medium of choice is lego bricks.  He makes huge sculptures, portraits, signs, you name it.  This all red sculpture of a man emerging from a pile of bricks makes me think of someone struggling to break free.  Reaching towards the sky for help to pull him up out of the abyss.

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This sculpture is also by Nathan Sawaya.  This blue man is reconstructing himself.  Perhaps after a tragic life event he is struggling to pull himself together.  We can all relate to that.  Whether it’s due to a divorce or a death, people are constantly struggling to redefine themselves.

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This cool portrait by Nathan Sawaya is of John Lennon (obviously).  I like the three dimensional nature of these three works by him.  Especially this one, where the shadow of the bricks becomes part of the portraiture.

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These Lego recreation scenes are amazing.  The crowd in the background of the lego version is perhaps a little sparse but even the recreation of the photo captures the same feeling.  To me, the photo was instantly recognizable from the lego.

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This photographic lego recreation was perhaps a little harder for me to recognize.  Storm troopers?  Hysterical!  I do love it though.  Storm troops were perhaps a better description for the riot police in the real photo.

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This one is quite literally Lego Art.  The Mona Lisa portrait is instantly recognizable.  Her hair and clothes may not be standard lego issue but the remainder of the pieces are.  I love the background of the portrait especially.  Oh, and the standard lego face captures the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile perfectly! (lol)

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This shadow art of a high wire scene from lego is amazing.  I love the pigtails of the girls in the front row!  I’ve never seen anything quite like this.

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This recreation of an electric chair at the Austrian cultural center is astounding.  To see a child’s toy turn into an executioner’s tool is unexpected and slightly shocking.  Art is often something that draws questions, controversy and intense interest.

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This giant lego man statue at the University of Illinois is super cute.  I love the big “I” on it’s shirt and the three cold looking students recreating the pose.  I haven’t seen a lego sculpture this big outside of California’s Lego Land — which by the way, is well worth the trip.

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This Lego portrait of James Brown uses shading and shadow to a highly realistic degree.  It’s amazing that one’s likeness can be so closely recreated using square bricks.

Lego has been used for so many “artistic” purposes that this article could literally go on and on.  I’ve seen everything from giant sculptures of Albert Einstein’s head at Lego Land to recreations of bible scenes on the net.  Everyday art makes creativity and ingenuity accessible to the masses by the ease of obtaining things to make the art out of.  So, grab a box of bricks and see what you can come up with.

For more pictures and information on everyday art, check out some of these articles:

1. Everyday-Art-Chairs
2. Everyday-Art-Garbage-Cans