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
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There are less than 30 days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2021. To help you with your entry, we ve asked some of our judges what they ll be looking for in this year s submissions. I m really interested in understanding and learning more about how architects have been designing at the front lines this year, said educator, designer and creative technologist Virginia San Fratello. In what ways has architecture responded to the pandemic, to climate change and the wide array of natural disasters we have been experiencing and also to issues around social equity, she added.
San Fratello has agreed to judge this year s architecture project categories alongside Rafael Viñoly, Chitra Vishwanath, Cecil Balmond and Juliane Wolf.
Architects have criticised the gallery for pouring 95m³ of concrete into the ground to support the pop-up structure in London’s Kensington Gardens, part