Ai Weiwei Recreated Monet's 'Water Lilies' Out of 650,000 LEGO Bricks

Ai Weiwei Recreated Monet's 'Water Lilies' Out of 650,000 LEGO Bricks

Nearly a century after Claude Monet captured the beauty of lily ponds in a series of Impressionist paintings, Ai Weiwei has reimagined the triptych in a radically new way. The contemporary Chinese artist—known for pushing boundaries—used 650,000 LEGO bricks in 22 different colors to reconstruct the …

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