Is BIGGER Better?
I'm not sure. But these examples show you that art is limitless.
Artist Christo is still persuing his life long dream of creating the largest piece of art in the world. Constructed from 410,000 variously-hued oil barrels, the proposed beast would tower around 492 feet high and glow golden in the sunlight. And now, it might actually be happening in, where else? But Abu Dhabi.
Mount Rushmore, featuring four, 60-foot faces of dead presidents, and taking up almost 1,300 acres, this
very big sculpture monument attracts three million visitors a year. It counts as art people. Let's not forget it!
Photo credit: Jim Denevan
San Francisco-based land artist Jim Denevan and his assistants created these icy loops and circular designs over frozen, snow-covered Lake Baikal in Siberia. It takes up nine square miles. The ephemeral work was “painted” with sweeping. Denevan also made other wintery land art with "stomping". Wild.
Graffiti is motivated by the drive to put your name on things, legally or otherwise, on as many things as possible. That’s why SABER’s masterful piece in the bed of the Los Angeles River — often argued to be the world’s biggest — was such a big deal. And then it was quickly painted over by authorities.
Photo credit: Forbes
Speaking of putting your name on things, Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan has hired laborers to dig deep canals forming ”
the biggest graffiti tag the world has ever seen.” Where else is this done but Abu Dhabi?
Déjà vu.
Here’s the world’s biggest portrait made out of toast by museum curator Laura Hadland. She created this portrait of her mother-in-law with 9,852 slices of toast. It’s 32’8″ x by 42’3″.
Photo credit: Crooked Brains
Here’s the Guinness World Record holder for “Largest TV sculpture,” spanning 33,744.85 square feet with 2,903 television sets, constructed by Lithuanian artist Gintaras Karosas in the Open Air Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
