Big, Large Art

Since the starting fourth dimension of the earliest civilizations humans direct keep sought to mold together with shape the landscape for the purposes of defense, mark territory, hunting & farming together with for other practical purposes. However amongst these practical reasons for altering the natural, physical environs humans direct keep likewise sought to modify the landscape for, what powerfulness hold out argued every bit impractical, cultural, religious together with artistic reasons.

Allen Carroll of Esri has created a actually interesting Story Map which examines the history of province art, or the 'the human urge to practice ... expressed on a really large scale'. Very Large Art uses Esri aerial imagery to direct keep a unopen await at examples of geoglyphs together with other landscape art, from 3,000 yr erstwhile chalk figures inward England to the move of contemporary artists.

As good every bit exploring the industrial plant of of import artists, such every bit James Turrell together with Robert Smithson,  A Very Large Art likewise examines the move of famous landscape gardeners, the interesting architecture of large airports together with the agricultural landscapes formed every bit a trial of farming the land.