The title of the touring exhibition “Giants,” featuring works by Gordon Parks and Jean-Michel Basquit, is a pun.

The musical power couple Alicia Keyes and Swizz Beatz have collected works by those familiar names in art history — “Giants.” And, as evidenced by the collection of statuary, installations, wall-covering paintings, blown-up photos, commissioned self-portraits and historical hip hop musical hardware (pioneer Kool Herc’s sound system), these two like their art BIG.

Vibrant colored paintings in a wide array of artistic styles and “movements” suggest African and African American history and art history in this eclectic collection which screams, “Honey, we’re going to need a higher ceiling” after each purchase.

They are artists and arts supporters and there is nothing here that says “shrinking violet.” Everything practically shouts itself off the walls.

I generally disdain oversized artworks like this, tracing back to my lifelong loathing for the oversized art of Joan Miro. But self-indulgent (Hanging your favorite bikes, Mr. Beatz, as art?) as some of what we see plainly is, there’s an artistic eye in evidence and a mission statement inherent in it.

The Basquiat is a lesser work, a scrawled caricature and “name” painted appreciation of Langston Hughes — probably the cheapest Basquiat any collector could afford these days. Reminded me of what Basquiat mentor Andy Warhol (played by David Bowie) said to young Jean-Michel in the ’96 bio-pic about the mercurial New York artist.

“It’s not very good, is it?”

But the photography is a dazzling showcase of Gordon Parks and one of his heir apparents — Brooklynite and New York chronicler Jamel Shabazz.

And the scale of everything we see, from mural-sized replications of South African township decor to a Nick Cave statue, can’t help but awe.

“Giants” continues at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond through March 1.