This last class we first talked about Installation Art, which is art which has to be installed into an area, such as a room, or even outside. Installation art is very interesting and can be used for many different reasons, such as making a political statement, or as simple as drawing your eyes to beautiful things that otherwise, you might not have seen. A lot of installation art changes an ordinary space, into something new and interesting.
Then we spoke a bit more about neolithic art, and stonehenge. Stonehenge was built in 2,000 BCE in Salisbury Plain, England. It was built in post and lintel style, where two posts holds a third up, like a doorframe. Each of the rocks weighed about 50 tons, hinting that the whole community worked together to make it. Creating Stonehenge was very important to the community at this time because it is thought that each rock was moved about 150 miles. Nobody is completely certain why Stonehenge was built, but there are many hypotheses. The only one that has been proven is that the stones line up with the sun during the different solstices, so it is thought that it was basically a giant sun dial. It's theorized that the people could have used that to figure out when to plant their crops and when to harvest.
In 1976, Nancy Holt built a piece of installation art called sun-tunnels, that is very similar to Stonehenge because there are 4 concrete cylinders that line up with the sun during summer and winter solstices.
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