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Starry Night design. Photo courtesy of Truman Cheng.
One of the most famous paintings in the world, Vincent van Gogh’s
Starry Night, has inspired everything from socks to umbrellas to face masks.
Now, the 1889 Post-Impressionist masterpiece will have its very own Lego set, allowing art lovers to recreate the Dutch artist’s most beloved work entirely from interlocking plastic bricks.
The kit is the brainchild of Truman Cheng, a 25-year-old PhD student from Hong Kong, who submitted the idea to Lego Ideas, which allows fans of the colorful construction toys to share their suggestions for future Lego kits.
Any project that receives at least 10,000 votes from the public enters an official review process and can potentially be chosen by the Danish company to be produced as a commercial set, with the original designer earning one percent of royalties.
Truman Cheng, LEGO
LEGO is an art form, and a new set from the toy company perfectly exemplifies this. As Nerdist reports, the product recreates Vincent van Gogh s
The Starry Night as a blocky, 3D model that amateur LEGO artists can put together at home.
LEGO allows fans to submit ideas for new sets, and this design from Truman Cheng was popular enough online to get the company s attention. It captures every element of van Gogh s most iconic masterpiece, from the swirling night sky to the dark cypress trees in the foreground. But instead of a flat oil painting, the scene has been reimagined as a 1552-piece LEGO sculpture. It even comes with a minifigure of Vincent van Gogh, complete with his own miniature palette, easel, paintbrush, and canvas showing