Artectory » New York http://www.artectory.com The International Artist Directory Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:55:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Art of the Brick http://www.artectory.com/2010/03/22/the-art-of-the-brick/ http://www.artectory.com/2010/03/22/the-art-of-the-brick/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:52:26 +0000 Artectory http://www.artectory.com/?p=40

Some artists use paint, others bronze – But for Nathan Sawaya he chooses to build his awe-inspiring art out of toy building blocks.  LEGO® bricks to be exact. With more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his New York studio, Sawaya’s sculptures take many forms.

Sawaya’s art is currently touring North American museums in a show titled, The Art of the Brick.  It’s the only exhibition focusing exclusively on LEGO as an art medium. The creations, constructed from nearly one million pieces, were built from standard bricks beginning as early as 2002.

For more information: http://www.brickartist.com/

]]> http://www.artectory.com/2010/03/22/the-art-of-the-brick/feed/ 0 The Great Wave of Kanagawa http://www.artectory.com/2009/11/05/the-great-wave-of-kanagawa/ http://www.artectory.com/2009/11/05/the-great-wave-of-kanagawa/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:51:34 +0000 Artectory http://www.artectory.com/2009/11/05/demo/ The Great Wave of Kanagawa is a famous woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It was published in 1832 (Edo Period) as the first in Hokusai’s series 36 Views of Mount Fuji and is his most famous work. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats near the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa. As in all the other prints in the series, Mount Fuji can be seen in the background. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large okinami. Like the other prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions.

Copies of the print are in many Western collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the British Museum in London, and in Claude Monet’s house in Giverny, France.

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