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Sculpture – 50,000 Piece Lego Recreation Of The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Sculpture – 50,000 Piece Lego Recreation Of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa “.
ABOUT PROJECT
Japan-based artist Jumpei Mitsui is one of just 21 LEGO Certified Professionals in the world—this means his full-time job is to create artworks with the plastic building blocks—and is the youngest of the renowned group.
He’s fulfilled this title most recently with a sculptural recreation of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” During the course of 400 hours, Mitsui snapped together 50,000 cobalt and white LEGO into an undulating wave that mimics the original woodblock print.