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Mocing, An Art?


CzaR

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I have been considering this for awhile now, most of the people I have asked tell me no, building LEGO Bricks is not an art, not even if they are of your own custom design.

 

Well guess what, I disagree. I think it is just as much of an art as painting on canvas or sculpting from marble. Too many just assume that because lego is themed towards children, it cannot be viewed as a real kind of art. What an unfair stereotype, just because they are considered toys. If painting, even with watercolors is proclaimed an art, why not lego! Lego can yield just as much, if not more complexity, innovation and creativity as any other kind of art. Any type of lego medium can be complex, from the most basic of Duplo and Mosaic, which most consider to go hand in hand with art, to the most advanced of Technic/Mindstorms.

 

So yea, I just thought I would rant about this after being discouraged with people today. Your thoughts?

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I agree completely. The stuff some people do with Lego is incredible. And deserves the same respect as paintings and sculptures, IMO.

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LEGO is art. Yes.

 

Some of the MOCs on BZP aren't though... :P

 

 

-SZ-

QFT

 

~Draco

I spake truth? :o

 

 

-SZ-

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Some of the MOCs on BZP aren't though... :P

 

 

-SZ-

It's art to those whoever builds it. Just because it doesn't look like art to you, it could look great to someone else. Remember when you(as in all of us) used to build really "bad" MOCs, yet we thought they were the greatest things ever? Those were still art.
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If people consider making full-scale replicas of the Great Wall Of China out of playing cards an art, then there's no reason to assume otherwise of a far more complex and expansive building system.

 

So yes, it is an art.

 

And before someone says "but children don't play with playing cards", there are quite a few card games using generic playing cards for children. And adults who build stuff with Lego bricks don't even play with them, to my knowledge.

 

 

 

 

-Ngakunui

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It is an art. Whether something is an art is never defined by those who don't like it, but by those who do. :)

 

Of course, within it there are different styles. All of these are part of that art.

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Ahh, thank you for that, CzaR.

 

MOCing an art? How could it not be?

 

And how could I have lost sight of that?

 

If I'm going to MOC, then it's gotta be art.

 

Thanks.

 

-BC

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