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Is Lego Art, or what?
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Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:36:35 GMT
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I am really bored at work today so I am taking this opportunity to ask all
you LUGNET people questions which have been interesting me a bit. I spend
much of my time away from work making art. I consider myself, in part, an
artist. Unfortunately this leaves less time for Lego but that is a choice I
have made. Because of my dual interests, I have wondered how many people out
there also consider themselves artists. Here's a couple of questions:
Do you make things you consider art?
Do you consider your Lego creations artworks?
Do you make things which aren't strictly speaking Lego creations but involve
the use of bricks (i.e. multimedia collages)?
Do you call yourself an artist?
Are you a professional in a creative field such as graphic or industrial
design or architecture?
Are you able to utilize Lego in your profession apart from merely sharing
your enjoyment with your coworkers?
If both building and playing with Lego is a creative pursuit, how does it
differ from other creative pursuits such as painting or sculpting?
If you don't consider your Lego creations art, why not?
I have hesitated asking these questions because I foresee the matter
devolving into a debate of "WHAT IS ART?" But I am not interested in any
strict definitions or in making blanket statements. I want to know how
people personally feel towards what they make and how they differentiate
their Lego activities from what they do in the rest of their life or from
what other people do.
I have read that many of the posters here are people involved with
computers, engineers, programmers, mathematicians, etc. This makes sense as
those fields have a lot to do with the constructive, logical, and systematic
aspects of Lego. I have seen Lego models built by professional architects
and they have an obvious connection as well. At the bottom of this inquiry
is the question of what the activity of playing with Lego really consists of
and how it is or can be integrated with one's life.
Response to any of these issues would be appreciated.
By the way, I have seen some models of museums of art in Lego bricks but I
would be interested in seeing brick creations that are truly abstract and
not imitations or representations of everyday, or real, objects.
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Message has 15 Replies:
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| (...) Yes. (...) Yes, by my own definition of what art is. (...) Ehh... I'm not sure what you mean. I do occasionally build things that are just pleasing shapes out of LEGO- not a representation of anything, really. But I don't usually include other (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Nope. (...) Nope. This is not to say I don't consider some other Lego creations to be artworks. Eric Harshbarger's sculptures come readily to mind as an example. (...) Only sort of. We've been known to use Lego as "miniatures" in D&D. :) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Yes. (...) No. But I approach Lego from a gaming standpoint rather than an artistic one (this is not to say others aren't correct in identifying their work as art). (...) No. (...) Yes. (...) Not at the moment, but I do have a B.F.A. in (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Yes. (...) But of course :) (...) Not often, but occasionally. (...) Not really-- but only because I see an artist as someone who either gets paid for it, or devotes more time to creating 'art' than I do. (...) No, though I do create (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| [FUT .people] (...) Yes. (...) No, unless whatever I'm modeling is art. I do consider my POV-Ray renderings art. (...) If you count renderings... (...) Yes. (URL)Are you a professional in a creative field such as graphic or industrial (...) I'm a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Yes (...) My sculptures I consider art. My space and town MOC's, not so much. The museum treads a fine line between model and artwork. I do tend to differentiate between them (I think that if I can use the creation in a game of BrikWars as (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Nah, I don't consider them art. (...) No. I guess I feel like I'm not an artist because too much of the medium has just been given to me (...) No. (...) No. (...) No (...) Lego is at present my only creative pursuit. (I spend the rest of my (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) My wife has made things that involve photos and parts of photos mixed with patterns of Lego bricks. Sort of like fancy photo frames. I've made a number of useful items that have some design I consider art. For example, napkin holders and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Some things...,yeah, kinda art "for fun" more than "fine art" in my case... A lot of stuff I build is stuff designed only to appeal to me -- just my mind wandering -- but some stuff is designed to (hopefully) appeal to others, and gets (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Somewhat - I try to model things. The appearance aspect I consider to involve artistic talent (or lack of :) (...) not really, again I prefer the term modeling (...) no, but I feel I have some artistic ability (...) Yes. I am a design engineer (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Not really. I build things because I like to. If other people think they're art, then I'll be flattered. :^) (...) In a matter of speaking. I try to use my artistic skill to build the things I do, but I don't build them as artworks. But I (...) (24 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Yes. (...) Yes, some of my creations I consider "art." (...) No. (...) Yes. You don't have to be a "professional artist" to create things you think are special enough to share and feel that they would be appreciated by others. (...) No. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| (...) Yes. (...) No. Models. (...) No. (...) I happen to be an artist, but that has nothing to do with LEGO. (...) Yes. (...) No. In fact, time playing with LEGO (and reading LUGNet, for that matter) competes with working time...:-) (...) LEGO is a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| Cool, Thanks for asking....These are important questions. Come check out an Art Show I am involved in. The show is March 24th Details at: www.regurgitationshow.com Until I get better pix and a website...Suffice to say, I'll be displaying a 6 foot (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is Lego Art, or what?
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| "jonathan lill" <jonathanl@myriadweb.com> skrev i meddelandet news:G8v50z.JyM@lugnet.com... (...) I'm really sick, at home, today, so I take the opportunity to answer... (...) Yes, sort of. The renderings I make I consider as much 'art' as any other (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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