{"id":2825,"date":"2014-11-01T14:56:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2014-11-01T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T13:56:53","slug":"art-of-the-brick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/11\/01\/art-of-the-brick\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of the Brick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiona and I went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amsterdamexpo.nl\/the-art-of-the-brick\/\">Art of the Brick<\/a> exhibition at Amsterdan Expo last Sunday. It&#8217;s the collection of LEGO art works by <a href=\"http:\/\/brickartist.com\/\">Nathan Sawaya<\/a>. The pieces on display are a mixed bag. Some are genuinely notable, such as the headline &#8220;Yellow&#8221; (the yellow torso ripping open his own chest), while others are interesting only because they are made with LEGO. There&#8217;s a lot of inane and whimsical filler, too, but what the exhibition does really well is <em>inspire<\/em>. This is Sawaya&#8217;s stated goal: art was a creative outlet for him while he was working in a job that didn&#8217;t fulfil him. He wants to show every visitor that it doesn&#8217;t take expensive materials to make something beautiful or clever or fun. Anyone can do it, which is a great message.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/samothrace.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"1206\" class alt=\"Nathan Sawaya - The Winged Victory of Samothrace\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look! It&#8217;s the Winged Victory of Samothrace!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/gray.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class alt=\"Nathan Sawaya - Gray\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Sawaya &#8211; <i>Gray<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/my-boy.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Nathan Sawaya - My Boy\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan Sawaya &#8211; <i>My Boy<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2014\/brick-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"638\" class \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fiona and blue guy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiona and I went to see the Art of the Brick exhibition at Amsterdan Expo last Sunday. It&#8217;s the collection of LEGO art works by Nathan Sawaya. The pieces on display are a mixed bag. Some are genuinely notable, such as the headline &#8220;Yellow&#8221; (the yellow torso ripping open his own chest), while others are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/11\/01\/art-of-the-brick\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Art of the Brick&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}