16 Impossibly Large Works of Art

Is bigger always better? Not necessarily. With things like bruises, cow turds and explosions, bigger can absolutely mean worse. But with art? It’s hard to say. Impossible massiveness feels like it has to come at a cost — a huge piece of art has by its very nature been poured over less and obsessed over less than something small but honed to perfection.

But there’s something inherently pleasing about anything honkin’ massive. Like, even if it’s a bit shitty, if something’s enormous enough, it’s still impressive. If someone does a painting a mile long that absolutely sucks, there’s still something to it — it’s better, by sheer dint of bigness, than an equally suck-ass painting on a piece of paper. That’s just inarguably true.

Some art sets out to be enormous as its main reason for being, while other stuff just keeps on going because its artist simply doesn’t stop. Either way, there’s something self-indulgent and masturbatory once things go beyond a certain reasonable bigness — particularly in the case of item #1 on the list…

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