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LEGO Approves Van Gogh ‘The Starry Night’ Set: It Belongs In A Museum!

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Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ is easily one of the most recognizable paintings in the world. And now LEGO has decided to make it an official set after the concept was proposed by builder Truman Cheng on the LEGO Ideas website, garnered the 10,000+ necessary supporters, and made it through LEGO’s approval process. Nice, I’ve already started clearing off a place on my wall to hang it.

The set will consist of a 3-dimensional recreation of the famous painting, and LEGO believes it “illustrates a whole new way to think about LEGO art.” Does this mean an entire line of famous artworks will get the LEGO treatment in the near future? Granted I don’t have my Magic 8-Ball on me, but if I had to take a guess, it is decidedly so.

The last time I was in New York, I actually went to see ‘The Starry Night’ at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, which has had the piece in its permanent collection since 1941) and I was surprised at its size. I assumed it was going to be a behemoth of a painting at like 6′ x 8′, but it’s roughly only 2′ x 3′. I was so bewildered I immediately left and tried to eat my weight in street hot dogs.

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Van Gogh’s iconic Starry Night will soon be immortalized with its own LEGO set!

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I’d venture a guess that owning a LEGO Starry Night would be just as cool as owning the original, but who am I to judge the value of post-impressionist art, I’m just another millennial!

LEGO just approved of turning the Starry Night into a production-ready set. The idea for the product came from LEGO Ideas, a playground where LEGO enthusiasts upload their creations, and LEGO fans vote on designs that they want to see willed into existence. The Starry Night rendition comes from Truman Cheng, a Master Builder who goes by the username legotruman. Cheng’s rendition of the post-impressionist masterpiece uses a total of 1,552 pieces, and gathered a stunning 10 thousand votes on the LEGO Ideas platform! It features a 3 dimensional representation of Van Gogh’s famed painting, along with a miniature figurine of the artist along with his easel, brush, palette, and canvas. The 3D LEGO pieces actually work wonderfully with Van Gogh’s style, as each individual brick looks like a distinct brush-stroke, giving the artpiece its signature Impressionist appeal.

As of now LEGO has approved of Truman’s design for production, but there isn’t any word on when it’ll release, or what the price will be.

Designer: Truman Cheng for LEGO Ideas

Starry Night TARDIS Embroidery: Time and Relative Dimension in Sewing

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Many fans really love the Doctor Who episode Vincent and The Doctor. People love a good historical story anyway and the episode was neat. It had the Doctor and Vincent van Gogh fighting monsters along with Amy Pond and even a special painting of Starry Night that featured the TARDIS.

This embroidered version of the Starry TARDIS was a gift to jfer007 from Greys Princess over on craftster.org. This gift giving was part of a larger craft swap in the community, but this is probably the best item of the bunch.

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I would so hang this on my wall. Its creator did a great job reproducing Van Gogh’s work with a TARDIS in it. I’m gonna have to get into that swap. Do you think I could get something cool if I gave them a TARDIS made out out Popsicle sticks?

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Starry Night Mural Made from Recycled Door Hardware

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Who would have thought that doorknobs and other such door hardware could be used someday for creating giant replicas of famous paintings? A hardware store owner from Bethesda considered this to be a good idea.

The Starry Night is undoubtedly the magnum opus of Vincent Van Gogh, fact that determined many ...
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Van Gogh’s Starry Night In A Collage With Actual Galaxies

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Van Gogh’s classic, Starry Night was recreated in collage form using actual pictures of galaxies. And the best part is that the result looks fantastic.

We could say this is a collaboration from the ages, featuring Vince from the grave and astronomy student Alex Parker. Van Gogh created Starry Night ...
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Papercraft Starry Night: Painting with Paper

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I don’t remember exactly when I started obsessing about The Starry Night, but needless to say that this is one painting that I find unforgettable, especially when it comes to the swirling wind patterns in the sky. I guess I’m not the only one because one artist decided to recreate tan intricate version of the image using paper as her medium.

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Susan Myers uses quilling, a paper filigree art form that involves countless hours of folding and shaping in order to recreate Van Gogh’s Starry Night. She used a white colored pencil to draw a template. Then she quilled, cut, rolled and glued thousands of colorful card stock pieces to reimagine the famous painting. Her canvas measures 36″ × 24″.

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The Starry Night has been recreated countless of times, but this is the first papercraft recreation I’ve ever seen. I like it. She recently sold the piece through her Etsy site.

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Pac-Man Meets Van Gogh In Starry Night At The Arcade

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Impressionism is a great for of art, and we’d love to read some theories if it eventually led to pixel art. If so, this picture was just something waiting to happen.

This piece is titled “Starry Night At The Arcade”, and its creator is SirNosh. In it, we can see ...
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Van Gogh’s Starry Night Recreated With Domino Pieces

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We’re not sure about what your definition of art is, but if domino recreation of famous painting doesn’t fit in, well, you’re gonna have to rethink some things now.

The 7,000 piece domino maze that recreates Van Gogh’s The Starry Night was set up by a YouTube user known as ...
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Vincent Van Dominogh’s Starry Night: Falling Skies

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If there’s one painting that I’m obsessed about, it’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. If the iPad app wasn’t enough for you, check out FlippyCat’s project, that he aptly named Vincent Van Dominogh’s Starry Night. It kind of makes sense that he used dominoes because their movement seems to capture the movement of the wind in the painting.

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It took FlippyCat 11 hours and 7,067 dominoes to build his version of Starry Night. There was also a first failed attempt, which you can check out in the video below. The dominoes were stacked, arranged, and aligned in a three-dimensional configuration. Once initiated, the domino chain reaction caused all of the dominoes to fall in a cascade whose final result gives an even more impressionistic rendering of the painting.

If I had to build this, there would have been more than just one failed attempt!

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Starry Night Interactive App Hits iPad

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Remember that gorgeous Interactive Starry Night? It certainly put a high tech spin on one of Van Gogh’s most inspiring works. It’s one of my favorite pieces of art, especially the wind. Initially, I wondered if the guy who made it would release it for other platforms so that more people could enjoy it. I guess the crowd’s clamor won, as it was just released for iOS.

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It took Greek artist Petro Vrellis six months to code his Starry Night program for Windows, but under a month to port it over to iOS. The app lets you play with Van Gogh’s masterpiece using your fingertips, adding your own spin to the iconic post-impressionist painting.

Starry Night Interactive is available for iPads now, but it will also be released for Android soon. It costs $1.99(USD) over at the  iTunes App Store.