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7 incredible Lego artworks you need to see to believe

Everything about them is awesome.

Mar 21st 2014, 3:06 PM 9,671 Views 0 Comments

CAN YOU IMAGINE what it would be like to play around with Lego for a living?

American artist Nathan Sawaya traded in a career as a corporate lawyer to get creative with the little bricks, and now his Lego works of art are travelling the world in a very special exhibition.

There’s this Lego Mona Lisa

Source: Paul Bruinooge

These incredible Lego versions of some rather famous sculptures

Source: Paul Bruinooge

This guy who basically bleeds Lego

Source: The Art of The Brick

Someone SWIMMING in Lego (Ouch!)

Source: The Art of The Brick

Lego lovers

Source: The Art of The Brick

Some suitably abstract scenes

Source: The Art of The Brick

And this giant T-Rex skeleton

Source: The Art Of The Brick

You can see every single one of them in Dublin from Apri 5th, when The Art of The Brick opens in The Ambassador Theatre for a limited run.

Tickets for the exhibition will be available to purchase online at ticketmaster.ie and in Ticketmaster outlets nationwide from Friday March 28th.

For more information about Nathan Sawaya’s work you can check out his official website.

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7 incredible Lego artworks you need to see to believe