Art Project - Create Together — LEGO set 21226

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Art · SET 21226

Art Project - Create Together

A shared Art project combines selected small themed images or one large minifigure portrait.

Pieces: 4,138
Release year: 2021
Theme: Art
Set number: 21226
LEGO recommended age: 7+
LEGO retail price · Italy: 119.99 €

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Retired from the LEGO Italy catalogue when checked on 23 October 2026. Availability can change. Check the store for the latest information.

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TIME TO BUILD

How long does it take to build Art Project - Create Together?

Individual build

A starting point for planning your build. Times for each experience level are editorial estimates, not measurements submitted by HowLongToBuild users.

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Beginner

≈ 9 hSuggested range5 h 45 min – 13 h 15 min

Intermediate

≈ 6 hSuggested range3 h 45 min – 8 h 45 min

Experienced

≈ 4 hSuggested range2 h 30 min – 6 h

Based on one person building the set for the first time, following the original instructions and using numbered bags where supplied. Includes normal piece-finding and minor adjustments; excludes long breaks, filming, dismantling and modifications. Sources may use different methods. This range is neither a statistical interval nor a limit: your build may take less or more time.

How we estimate times · sources and method

Tiny tiles and nine bases. One person completing one composition, not a group. The three central durations are model-specific editorial assessments. Planning ranges extend approximately from 65% to 145%, rounded to quarter-hours; they are not measured experience-level averages or guaranteed limits.

Sources do not always specify the builder’s experience. The three experience bands are our editorial assessment, based on the complexity of the set and individual accounts where available.

LEGO Italy · Art Project - Create Together ↗
This source documents the model’s features and components, not a timed build. No sufficiently verifiable individual building-time report has been identified for this set.
LEGO building instructions · Art Project - Create Together ↗
Set-specific instructions checked against the set number, piece count and year. The duration is an editorial assessment based on piece count, construction type, mechanisms and detail.

Checked: 23 ottobre 2026 · Method v1.0 · Limited reports; not a statistical average.

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BEYOND THE BRICKS

Did you know?

The model, the history, the ideas

Inside the set

Thirty-six designs

Four themes each offer nine images for selection.

LEGO source

A minifigure alternative

Use all bases for one large LEGO-character picture.

LEGO source

Beyond the set

The stories, places and inventions behind your build.

Chalk in the subway

In 1980, Haring began drawing in white chalk on unused black subway advertising panels.

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In 1980 Haring drew with white chalk on unused advertising panels covered in matte black paper in New York’s subway. The contrasting marks made figures legible on surfaces encountered daily by passing commuters.

Keith Haring Foundation

A public laboratory

Between 1980 and 1985, hundreds of subway drawings developed his rapid-line language before commuters.

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Haring made hundreds of subway drawings between 1980 and 1985, sometimes forty in a day. Commuters would stop and speak with him at work. This public laboratory combined experimentation in line with direct audience encounters, making conversation part of the experience alongside producing the images.

Keith Haring Foundation

Expanded stories updated on 29 October 2026

Written by HowLongToBuild · Sources are linked with each story · Checked on 23 October 2026. Historical facts and story details refer to the context described.

THE COMMUNITY’S EXPERIENCE

What was it like to build?

Three separate scores from 1 to 10. For difficulty, 1 means very easy and 10 means very difficult.

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SET THE MOOD

A soundtrack for your build

· Selected for the subject and atmosphere

Plantasia’s synthesiser melodies have a light, curious character. We pair them with plants and imaginative shapes: a musical garden rather than a natural sound recording.

OUR PICK

Mother Earth's Plantasia

Mort Garson

Intimate and spacious

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