Environmental Art Or The Land Art Movement

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Environmental Art OrThe Land Art Movement

• Sara Breakfield
• Yoriko Jin

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What is "Environmental Art"?

• It is artwork created by artists concerned
  with the state of our environment worldwide, and
  with their local situation.
• Environmental artists often work in these
  ways
• They interpret nature, creating artworks to
  inform us about nature and its processes, or
  about environmental problems we face
• They interact with environmental forces, creating
  artworks affected or powered by wind, water,
  lightning, even earthquakes
• They re-envision our relationship to nature,
  proposing through their work new ways for us to
  co-exist with our environment
• They reclaim and remediate damaged environments,
  restoring nature in artistic and often aesthetic
  ways

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Diana Lynn Thompson

• Diana Lynn Thompson's thoughtful and visually
  stunning artworks bridge the gap between "art in
  nature" installations and community-based
  conceptual art. Whether meticulously numbering or
  adding people's names to thousands of leaves, or
  distributing engraved seashells to 140 people
  from around the world as gifts to the sea (and
  carefully documenting the process), Thompson
  links ordinary people to the nature of her native
  Canada. She believes "the process is the
  teacher.
• "Hundreds and Thousands" was a year-long project
  where Thompson numbered every leaf on five trees
  as well as wrote poetry on additional leaves in a
  park in Surrey, British Columbia. As the leaves
  fell, Thompson washed and flattened, and then
  pinned all 38,000 of them, with the help of
  visitors, to the Surrey Art Gallery's walls.
  Leaves inscribed with poetry were left for
  visitors to chance upon them in the park.

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Hundreds and Thousands
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James Turrell

• James Turrell is an internationally acclaimed
  light and space artist whose work can be found in
  collections worldwide. Since childhood, Turrell
  has been fascinated with the qualities of light
• A James Turrell skyspace is a freestanding
  enclosed chamber large enough for about 15 people
  and designed and constructed with utmost
  precision to heighten our sense of sight and
  perception.
• Inside the skyspace, visitors sit on a bench and
  view the sky and atmospheric changes through an
  opening in the roof. On rainy days a moveable
  dome covers the opening and a secondary light
  source creates a seemingly infinite visual space
  beyond the roof aperture.
• Turrell's work is meant to be taken in slowly,
  quietly, and over time. The Skyspace experience
  varies at different times of the year and
  different times of day. Visitors are encouraged
  to stop in again and again to sit back and absorb
  the effects of the Skyspace over the course of
  the seasons.
• Visitors are also encouraged to swing by the
  Henry Art Gallery after dark to see the spectrum
  of intense colors that the exterior of the
  Skyspace emits when lit by thousands of computer
  controlled LED lights embedded in its glass
  panels.

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Skyspace
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Andy Goldsworthy

• (British artist born in 1956 living in Scotland)
• Works directly with nature, produces site
  specific sculpture and land works situated in
  natural settings. He uses materials in nature
  such as leaves, twigs, flower petals, pinecones,
  sand, snow and stone. His works are fragile and
  ephemeral because he has an idea that an artwork
  too has a natural life that eventually must end
  like the growth and the decay in nature.

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Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
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Christo Jeanne-Claude

• An "artistic" duo known best for wrapping objects
  and buildings, as well as other types of
  enivironmental art.
• Although their artwork is visually striking and
  often controversial due to its size and scale,
  the artists have repeatedly denied that their
  projects contain any deeper meaning. The purpose
  of their art is intended to simply make the world
  a "more beautiful place" or offer a new way of
  looking at an old landscape.
• David Bourdon has called Christo's wrappings a
  "revelation through concealing."
• The couple are partners in all undertakings.

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Tree Wrappings
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Island Wrapping
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Valley Curtain
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Umbrellas
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Kathryn Miller

• "Environmental art, by its very nature, moves
  beyond the confines of the gallery and is often
  motivated by an impulse to integrate artistic
  practice more fully into daily life.  Southern
  California artist Kathryn Miler's Seed Bombs
  project (1992-1994) makes physical this
  transition.
• Miller designed portable "seed bombs" which could
  be used for landscape re-vegetation.  Made of
  rich soil and the seeds of native California
  plants compacted into egg like balls.  But Miller
  wanted viewers to take the seed bombs and throw
  them somewhere that was in need of planting by
  building construction, or otherwise degraded
  zones.  She wanted to see native plants flourish
  again in these areas.  Miller seeks to engage in
  a social action by using her artwork, and links
  the rarefied environment of the gallery space
  with nature at large

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Seed Bombs
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Seed Bombs Growing
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Chris Drury

• He is interested in the relationship between
  nature and culture. He travels around the world
  and works extensively with small communities in
  Europe, Japan and America. He makes work that
  fits with the needs of the community and is an
  integral part of the landscape.
• A defining characteristic of all his works is
  that they draw attention to something which is
  outside of the work itself, they are not
  self-referential.

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Body as a Landscape project

• This is a project that looks at Body as Landscape
  or systems within the body and systems on the
  planet. He works with hospitals and medical
  technology for this project. He has looked at
  blood and water flows wave patterns from
  echocardiograms as well as the formation in rock,
  tree barks and landscapes.

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Heart of Reeds

• Taking the cross section of the human heart as
  its inspiration, he has been creating a reed bed
  which is located the former railway sidings. This
  reed bed is designed as an area of water, reeds,
  island and earth mounds which people can access
  via board walks.

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Walter De Maria

• The Lightning Field, 1977, by the American
  sculptor Walter De Maria, is recognized
  internationally as one of the late-twentieth
  century's most significant works of art.
  Commissioned and maintained for public viewing by
  Dia Art Foundation, The Lightning Field
  exemplifies Dia's commitment to the support of
  art projects whose nature and scale exceed the
  limits normally available within the traditional
  museum or gallery. Dia also maintains two other
  of De Maria's projects, both located in New York
  City The Broken Kilometer, 1979, and The New
  York Earth Room, 1977.
• A work of Land Art situated in a remote area of
  the high desert of southwestern New Mexico, The
  Lightning Field is comprised of 400 polished
  stainless steel poles installed in a grid array
  measuring one mile by one kilometer. The poles,
  two inches in diameter and averaging 20 feet by 7
  1/2 inches in height, are spaced 220 feet apart.
  Since it is intended that visitors experience The
  Lightning Field alone or with a small group of
  people over an extended period of time, Dia
  provides simple accommodations for up to six
  people for overnight visits during the months of
  May through October.

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Lightning Field
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Earth Room