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Giant horses’ heads and 10-metre sculptures: massive art to see right now Jonathan Jones
One aspect of art you really cannot get at home – not by looking at it online or even in the most XXL of art books, and especially not with the screenlocked world of non-fungible token artworks – is the sheer, sensual thrill of bigness. It is time to think big, see big and feel big.
Britain has more than its fair share of awe-inspiring art. You could even say the genre was born here. Neolithic people shaped and sculpted the landscapes of these isles into henges, barrows and hill forts that seeded the idea of making a spectacular mark. Thus, medieval masons raised the great gothic pinnacle that tops Salisbury Cathedral in what seems a deliberate attempt to outdo the nearby megaliths of Stonehenge. Landowners of the 18th century, inspired by a vogue for Stonehenge and Avebury, anticipated modern land art by turning their estates into elaborate works of art with designed vi
Britain has more than its fair share of awe-inspiring art. You could even say the genre was born here. Neolithic people shaped and sculpted the landscapes of these isles into henges, barrows and hill forts that seeded the idea of making a spectacular mark. Thus, medieval masons raised the great gothic pinnacle that tops Salisbury Cathedral in what seems a deliberate attempt to outdo the nearby megaliths of Stonehenge. Landowners of the 18th century, inspired by a vogue for Stonehenge and Avebury, anticipated modern land art by turning their estates into elaborate works of art with designed vistas, ornamental temples and romantic follies. In the late 20th century this grand impulse returned. Antony Gormleyâs Angel of the North broke with boring good taste to show how art can define a place anew.