Land art, also known as earth art, emerged in the late 1960s as an art movement that creates works of art directly in nature using materials found in the landscape like soil, rock, and organic media. The works are not sculptures placed in nature but rather alter the landscape itself and frequently exist outdoors, unprotected from natural weathering and erosion. Many land artworks are ephemeral and only documented through photographs since they exist at a large scale across remote natural settings.

1. LAND ART EARTH INTERVENTION

2. Land Art LAND ART= art + nature “Land art, or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” “It is an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock, organic media, and water with introduced materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or mineral pigments.”

3. It is not a sculpture…. “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.” It is mostly ephemeral. Photographic registration. Big dimensions

4. Nazca Lines (cultural purposes) 400-650 B.C, Peru

5. Nazca Lines

6. Nazca Lines

7. Nazca Lines

8. Nazca Lines

9. Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. 1970, Utah

10. Spiral Jetty air view

11. Surrounded Islands by Christo and Jean Claude 1980-83

13. Initial drawing for Surrounded Islands

14. Running Fence by Christo and Jean Claude 1972-76, California

16. 5 meters high, 39 km long

17. Initial drawing for Running Fence

18. Pont Neuf Wrapped by Christo and Jean Claude 1975-85, Paris

21. Initial drawings for Pont Neuf

22. Wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jean Claude. 1971-95, Berlin

25. Initial drawings for Wrapped Reichstag

26. The Lightning Field by Walter de Maria. 1977, New Mexico

27. 400 stainless steel poles

28. Stick Road by David Nash

29. Barack Obama by Dario Gambarín

34. Other examples of Land Art….. easier to make!

35. Stone spiral

36. Stone totem

37. Stone window

38. Leaf spiral

39. Stick mirror