World's Biggest Art Piece

A Swedish artist is hard at work, painting what he hopes will be recognized as the world's largest painting done by a lone artist. David Aaberg has been labouring inside a former aviation hangar since May, painting his 43,056 square-foot "Happy People" portrait of thousands of faces from around the world. Guinness World Records said the current record is a 41,400 square-foot painting by Canadian artist Eric Wasught. "Hero" was unveiled in 2000 at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. And - just as Aaberg intends to do - Waugh cut up his painting in more manageable sizes and sold them for charity. Irish Art