Everyday art is how mundane things can be transformed into something astonishingly spectacular. French artist Gilbert Legrand, not only observes characters or faces in everyday objects, but he transforms them into playful characters or animals by painting them or modifying them. With his artist’s eye and artistic hands, he gives a new life to these mundane objects.
Legrand lets his whimsical vision and active imagination soar by painting teeny-weeny details onto these objects. It is like you always thought you saw a face in a particular object and Wham! It is really there. With his flight of fancy, blades of scissors can be lovers (Ironic!), a paintbrush can become an injured fox or a boy with a weird hairstyle, a faucet can become a lady, pliers can become a player catching a ball, a tissue box can be a man, and a juicer can be a woman emerging from a swimming pool.
Besides creating tiny sculptures and playful characters, Legrand works as a freelance illustrator and advertiser. For the past 10 years, driven by the passion of everyday art, he regularly exhibits his sculptures in art centers across France. His work has also been published in Editions Sarbacane books “The Grand Show of Small Things ” and “The Little Things in New York”
Check out more of his work that turns ordinary objects of the everyday life of people into playful characters at his Facebook Page and his website.
1. Body Building Wrench
2. Lion
3. The King of Hearts
4. The Hang(er) Man driving the car
5. Chief of the Tribe
6. The Hockey Player
7. The Saw Horse
8. The Concrete Alligator
9. Mangled Fox
10. Angry Platypus
11. Woman emerging from a pool
12. Dog on a leash
13. The Hang(er) man driving the car yet again
14. The cork screw
15. The Paintbrush
16. Dog wearing a cap
17. Jolly, the mouse
18. Lovers
19. Electric cow
20. Suicidal Tendency
21. The Corkscrew Diva
22. The walking dog
23. The pipe breaks
24. Dice mining
25. The Animal Kingdom
26. The body builder
27. The spigot model
28. Scissor Girls
29. The fruit peeler
30. Funnel pure and wise thoughts
31. The Dandelion Man
32. The Gold Spigot Model
33. The Cleaning Superhero
34. Egg Crate Racing
35. Oops, someone pull the curtain or shut the door
36. The Chinese Kung Fu Masters
37. The Security Agents
38. Miss Handsaws
39. The measuring tape men
40. The philosophy of small jet-setter
41. Amorous Scissors (Ironic!)
42. The sad tissue man
43. The Eagle
44. The Clever Fox
45. Bush Cutting
46. The Dancer
47. Running Spigots
48. The Shady Salesman
49. The Crybaby
50. The Capper
51. Hiding under the plank
52. Bookworm
53. The Boxer
54. The Flying Crate
55. The Singing Saucepan
56. This is the Spring
57. The Forked Biker
58. The Forked Boy and Dog
59. The Electric Man
60. The Domino Effect
61. Chillin’ out
62. The Pipe wrench
63. The Man on Fire
64. The Loving Dog
65. Loving Spoonfull
66. The Gardener
67. The Scissors Spider
68. The Vengeance of the Mosquito
These fun characters are so simple and yet so amazing.
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