Legos and Painted Pianos

Legos. They can ether be super fun toys, or extremely painful booby traps for your feet. Or, in Nathan Sawaya's case, they are an art.

Today I realized that I was going to the Kimball Arts Center to see The Art of the Brick exhibit by Nathan Sawaya. For those of you how haven't seen any of Nathan Sawaya's art, you are missing out. So, to help you I took a bunch of pictures today of each piece so I'll enlighten you!

The Art of the Brick at the Kimball Art's
Center.

Writer 

Hundred Dollar Bill

Yellow

Pop-Up Book

Crayon

Title: Unknown 

Gray

Title: Unknown

Aren't they amazing!?! I think my favorites would be the crayons, the pop-up book, and the little kid with holding the world. What are yours?

With all of these pieces he really uses the color to give the impression that he wants. When his sculpture is sad or concerned he uses gray. If the sculpture deals with creativity or ideas he add some color to the gray. I really like how much detail he puts into everything! With his sculptures he really likes to work with the human figure. I was able to see an exhibit that was displayed a few years ago and his main focus was the human figure. He had some sculptures putting themselves together, and some were ripping themselves apart, it was really cool! With this exhibit, he is still using the figure in different pieces but he’s sculpting everyday objects too. He had crayons, money, a cat, and a bunch of other stuff! It is always so cool to see The Art of the Brick when it’s on display. If you are ever in Park City and they are displaying The Art of the Brick, go on and stop by!

Okay, now to tie music into this. As we were leaving, I saw a piano just sitting outside. It was kinda weird because 1) It was a Piano sitting outside in the cold and 2)It was painted and had a humming bird on it. So of course I go over and look at it. It’s just a piano that you could play if you wanted too. I immediately sat down and started playing. As I was playing, I saw that the white keys were painted blue on the sides! You could only see the blue if you pressed a note down and looked at the side of the white note next to the one you were holding down. The really cool thing is that there were dragonflies and lady bugs painted on some of the keys. IT WAS SO COOL!!! I have to say, today was the first time I played on a painted piano in the freezing weather. It was great!

  

A side view of the piano. Sorry I don't know the artist's name,
but the painting is amazing! 

Here's a better view of the Humming bird

Just me playing by the Kimball Arts Center

See ya!