STORY: World-famous masterpieces get the Lego

treatment at this exhibition in London

‘Art of the Brick’ features more than 100 creations

made up of over a million Lego bricks

(Nathan Sawaya, Artist)

“This exhibition has over a hundred works of art, so you're looking at 20 years of my life almost, of building these creations, and each creation is a slow process. I'm putting one brick together at a time, and I'm actually putting a little bit of glue on each individual brick. So, these are all glued together when they're done.”

Among the well-known pieces

include Michelangelo’s ‘David’

Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’

Edvard Munch's ‘The Scream’

and Rodin's ‘The Thinker’

(Nathan Sawaya, Artist)

“I had LEGO as a child and I would rediscover it later in life as an art medium. I found that there was something about this toy that I'd really like to use for art. It's something about when you see my art up close, you'll see it's made out of these little rectangles. Then you back away from it and those rectangles and those sharp corners, they blend into curves and that's the magic of using LEGO bricks.”