Posted July 23, 201014 yr This is not my work. This has been made by Mark Cyran, a Pole from Canada. He worked for it for 3 years as I heard in the news and used up 1 200 000 pieces. He built Jan Matejko's painting of Grunwald from lego. It was made for the 600th anniversary of Grunwald on July 15, 2010. This is currently the largest lego mosaic in the world.I thought such a large creation and effort deserves to be heard on lego forums and sites. Here it is! Battle of Grunwald in Lego There are eight pictures of it. To view the next pictures just press the "nastepne" with an arrow beside it on top of the picture. Here is the original painting: And here is some info about the Battle of Grunwald: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald Edited July 25, 201014 yr by Sire Pirol
July 23, 201014 yr That's probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Absolutely amazing. I mean, it's REALLY good! but wow, that's just a lot of time! And Legos!
July 23, 201014 yr To recreate something already impressive so accurately with Lego bricks... is jaw-dropping! Seeing this really makes you think of how amazing these little stackable pieces of plastic are. I wonder if he used a program to pixelate a picture of the portrait or did it by eye? Either way, it must have taken an extreme amount of effort to create something so big and detailed.
July 28, 201014 yr Like .......WTF and OMG in one ! That's just AWESOME.....like how many pieces made this up - you can see lines for the plates, but to organise such a piece of art work - man, that's .....I'll say it again AWESOME ! I'm a conformist! !
July 28, 201014 yr If you wouldn't have said it was done in Lego I would have had no idea. An absolutely stunning creation. I wish I could find better words to describe it, but I am still trying to pick up my jaw from the floor. Thanks for sharing this! Truly inspiring!
July 31, 201014 yr Author Jeez, what's with all the Grunwald MOCs these days? I think that the 600th anniversary of the largest medieval battle needs some memory.
July 31, 201014 yr That is just unblivble. What it must have taken in just effort while assembling it boggles my mind. I admire the artist for both the effort and the creation.
August 6, 201014 yr I'm sure this is technically very impressive - apart from the colour-matching, which is fairly garish - but the biggest question remains 'Why?' I'm sure it took a lot of work to coordinate, plan, order and build, but I really don't see the point on replicating 1:1 a famous painting in another medium like LEGO. Is there a catalogue description to go with it which explains the art? At least with something like Jame's May's House there was a tension between the functionalism of the LEGO system with the process of translation into domestic habitation and objects (working shower, plastic cat) but this just seems like plastic pixellation sans purpose.
August 6, 201014 yr Taking that thing apart is going to be hell! It looks very beautiful though, I think its better than the original.
August 7, 201014 yr I'm sure this is technically very impressive - apart from the colour-matching, which is fairly garish - but the biggest question remains 'Why?' I'm sure it took a lot of work to coordinate, plan, order and build, but I really don't see the point on replicating 1:1 a famous painting in another medium like LEGO. Is there a catalogue description to go with it which explains the art? At least with something like Jame's May's House there was a tension between the functionalism of the LEGO system with the process of translation into domestic habitation and objects (working shower, plastic cat) but this just seems like plastic pixellation sans purpose. 'Why' - I suppose that this would be a question that would have to be answered by the artist himself. This is certainly not the only large LEGO mosaic out there. If we were to ask many builders (I'll avoid the word artist here) why they build the things they do, a simple 'because' probably would be a fairly common response. While a reproduction of Jan Matejko's Grunwald painting may seem to be an odd choice, I find the work every bit as fascinating as the James May project. Both works are ventures into the absurd employing a popular children's toy to produce something decidedly different. In many ways, this work reminds me of the many tapestries which reproduce popular works of art as both mediums yield similar challenges with regards to colour and detail. While I'm not sufficiently versed in postmodernism to pass judgement on this as a work of art I feel comfortable saying that as a cool LEGO thingy, this mosaic is absolutely stunning.
August 7, 201014 yr I'm sure this is technically very impressive - apart from the colour-matching, which is fairly garish - but the biggest question remains 'Why?' I'm sure it took a lot of work to coordinate, plan, order and build, but I really don't see the point on replicating 1:1 a famous painting in another medium like LEGO. Is there a catalogue description to go with it which explains the art? At least with something like Jame's May's House there was a tension between the functionalism of the LEGO system with the process of translation into domestic habitation and objects (working shower, plastic cat) but this just seems like plastic pixellation sans purpose. Why has already been answered: I think that the 600th anniversary of the largest medieval battle needs some memory. We Polish find great pride in the fact that we were able to defeat the teutonic knights, and the 600th anniversary was celebrated. Our fellow who created this wanted to use his common hobby to celebrate the anniversary of our great victory. :o) Legorski,
December 31, 201014 yr His eldest daughter's university savings. WOW, That is just incredible . Wonder how much the bricks cost for that?
January 2, 201114 yr Imitation is the sincerist form of flattery apparently. Had this been a painted reproduction it would have been fairly unremarkable. to reproduce it with tiny bricks in mosaic form is both lunacy and admirable. But that is what great art is about. Look at many of the massive buildings created by Lego builders or those at Legoland parks and you could level the same question - "why?". I think 'for the joy of it' is a better answer than 'because'.
January 2, 201114 yr weeeell... sure it's impressive ... because of it's size... essentialy , it's mosaic, it's a well known technique and even with fairly simple pc-programs you can create your own digital pattern for this... anyway, nice to see that Lego is getting more and more an instrument to (re)produce art, it's no longer just a toy...
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