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Re: [OM] IMG: Art of the Brick

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Art of the Brick
From: Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 08:27:18 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>
>Something else from Philadelphia, this time completely safe for work :-)
>
>A wonderful exhibition by American artist Nathan Sawaya. He was a lawyer but 
>then thought 
>better of it and became a full-time artist, working entirely in Lego bricks. I 
>have seen 
>this exhibition in Brussels in 2014, but the light was much better at the 
>Franklin 
>Institute in Philadelphia (and photography was allowed). So here are 21 images:
>
>http://www.greatpix.eu/Art-of-the-Brick/
>
>This has nothing to do with Legoland. This is real art. Some of the pieces are 
>reproductions 
>of famous works, such as American Gothic, but most are original works.
>

     I can still recall visiting the Franklin Institute back in the late 1950s. 
 We went from Grand Central Station in NYC to Philadelphia on a Pennsylvania 
Railroad passenger train pulled by a GG-1.  The planetarium with the projector 
was quite an experience.


Chris

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
     - Hunter S. Thompson
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