BUILDING ON CREATIVITY
Lego. Oh how I used to love it. If you’re a guy, you probably did too. And if you’re a girl, then you’ll remember swallowing a few of your brother’s bricks.
Darren Neave and John Cake, AKA The Little Artists, still do love Lego, and they use it rather mischievously to question what it means to be an artist in today’s commodity-driven and throwaway culture by recreating famous artworks (particularly those of the YBA artists of the early 90s) with Lego bricks and people. No glue, no painting on the figures. Pure Lego. In themselves, the works are imaginative, creative and, more than anything, amusing.
But I think there’s more to them than that. Lego has always placed great emphasis on encouraging creativity in young children by getting them to dream something up in their minds before making those dreams happen with the tools (the little bricks) they supply. Neave and Cake’s works are, in effect, a silent homage to that Lego aesthetic: little bricks that, with a little imagination and creativity, as well as a great deal of determination, eventually became art.
We’re not sure if they did this, but it’s worth a look anyway.
Darren Neave and John Cake, AKA The Little Artists, still do love Lego, and they use it rather mischievously to question what it means to be an artist in today’s commodity-driven and throwaway culture by recreating famous artworks (particularly those of the YBA artists of the early 90s) with Lego bricks and people. No glue, no painting on the figures. Pure Lego. In themselves, the works are imaginative, creative and, more than anything, amusing.
But I think there’s more to them than that. Lego has always placed great emphasis on encouraging creativity in young children by getting them to dream something up in their minds before making those dreams happen with the tools (the little bricks) they supply. Neave and Cake’s works are, in effect, a silent homage to that Lego aesthetic: little bricks that, with a little imagination and creativity, as well as a great deal of determination, eventually became art.We’re not sure if they did this, but it’s worth a look anyway.
vintage Izzard.......starwars and comedy combined...heaven!