Monday, October 27, 2014

Land art

 
 
Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson from atop Rozel Point, in mid-April 2005.
 
Land art, earthworks or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work
of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, bed rock, boulders, stones, or organic media logs, branches, leaves, and water.
 
Sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape is the means of their creation. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions. Many works that are created in ephemeral in nature evenchaly deka away and then only exist as video recordings or photographic documents.
 
 
 
Satellite view of Roden Crater, the site of an earthwork in progress by James Turrell, outside Flagstaff, Arizona.
 
History
 
Land art is to be understood as an artistic protest against the perceived artificiality, plastic aesthetics and ruthless commercialization of art at the end of the 1960s in America. Exponents of land art rejected the museum or gallery as the setting of artistic activity and developed monumental landscape projects which were beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculpture and the commercial art market. Land art was inspired by minimal art and Conceptual art but also by modern movements such as De Stijl, cubism, minimalism.
 
Many of the artists associated with land art had been involved with minimal art and conceptual art. Isamu Noguchi's 1941 design for Contoured Playground in New York is sometimes interpreted as an important early piece of land art even though the artist himself never called his work "land art" but simply "sculpture". His influence on contemporary land art, landscape architecture and environmental sculpture is evident in many works today.
 
 


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