Earth art
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Earth Art
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Earth art. Trend which emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Works were the result of the preoccupation with natural processes: often monumental and realized with the aid of earth-moving equipment, they were created in remote locations, e.g.
Earth Art
Term used form the mid 1960s to describe temporal works of art, either in art galleries or in the open, which made use of natural materials such as earth, rocks turf, and snow.
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Earth Art/Earthworks
Sculptural forms of earth, rocks or sometimes plants.
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Earth Art.
During the late1960s a number of sculptors began exploring ways to use large tracts of the actual landscape to form images.
Earth art: Artworks specific of the 1960s which manipulated the natural environment and which were then photographed for exhibition sometimes with an ecological message. Robert Smithson's 1.
Earth Art
A wide-spread awareness of the environment and concern for ecological issues also developed in the 1970s. In this spirit many Post-Minimalists turned to the earth itself as the material and site for art-making.
Also see earth art, environment art, plan, and site-specific.
site-specific - See installation.
Siva - See Shiva.
Geo-Art and Earth Art
Robert Smithson
"Spiral Jetty", Salt Lakes, Utah - 1970 (is now submerged below water's surface) ...
The land art (earth art) environmental scale sculpture works by Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell and others
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Lyrical Abstraction, Conceptual Art, Postminimalism, Earth Art, Video, Performance art, Installation art, along with the continuation of Fluxus, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field Painting, Hard-edge painting, Minimal Art, Op art, Pop Art, ...
The origin of earth art may have been the environment-conscious '60's and '70's, but earthworks also refer back to ancient earthworks, such as the large Native American and other burial mounds.
Undoubtedly the most celebrated piece of earth art is Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty of 1970.
 See also: Sculpture, Painting, Movement, Expression, Expressionism
  
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