Earth art, also known as land art, earthworks, or environmental art, involves creating artworks directly in nature using natural materials like stones, leaves, mud, and twigs. The document discusses several earth artists like Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, and Richard Long. It provides examples of their artworks, which are typically large-scale sculptures or installations created outdoors using materials found in the natural environment. The emergence of earth art in the 1960s-70s was influenced by a reaction against commercialism and a desire to create art outside the gallery setting and integrate it with the natural world.

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Earth Art
Marissa Akdemir 11 TS

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What is Earth Art?
 Also known as…
 Land Art
 Earthworks
 Environmental Art
 Create art using natural resources/mediums
 Altering the form of natural environments
 Grow/evolve, stay, change
 Stones, leaves, mud, twigs, etc.
 Mid 1960s and 70s
 Large
 Sculptures
 Photographed

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What Influenced Earth Art?
 Reaction to commercialism
 Artificial
 Outside of Gallery
 ‖A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its
charge, and becomes a portable object or
surface disengaged from the outside world.‖ –
Robert Smithson
 Post war industrialization
 The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – 1962
 Minimalism
 Simple forms
 Emotion
 Visuals

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Andy Goldsworthy
 July 26, 1956 – British
 Bradford College 1974 – 75
 Preston Polytechnic 1975 – 78
 ―I can‘t edit the materials I work with.
My remit is to work with nature as a
whole. I find nature as a whole
disturbing. Nature can be harsh –
difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn‘t walk
five minutes from here without coming across something
that is dead or decaying.‖ —Andy Goldsworthy

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Artwork
 “intimate and enclosed”
 Contrast – stones
 He uses leaves of intense color
 Fades from green to yellow
 Dark to light
 The colors emphasizes the 3
dimensional form
 Smooth texture
Goldsworthy, Andy. Leaves Laid on a River
Boulder. 1999. Leaves and water.

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Robert Smithson
 January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973
 Passaic, New Jersey
 Airplane
 Art Students League of New York
 Earthworks
 "I am for an art that takes into
account the direct effect of the elements as they exist
from day to day apart from representation.‖
 Entropy

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Artwork
 Colors
 Not intense
 Natural & neutral
 Symmetry
Smithson, Robert. Broken Circle.
1971. Emmen, Netherlands.

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Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 (Great
Salt Lake, Utah)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Shana
Gallagher-Lindsay

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Richard Long
 June 2, 1945
 Bristol
 West of England College of Art – 1962 – 1965
 St. Marin‘s School of Art – 1968
 "Nature has always been a subject
of art, from the first cave paintings to
twentieth-century landscape
photography. I wanted to use
the landscape as an artist in new
ways..."

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Artwork
 Rough Texture
 Wood, rocks
 Form
 Shape
Richard Long

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Comparing Earth Art
 Materials
 Colors
 Commercialism
 Purpose/functions
 Simplicity
vs.
Detail
Lascaux, about 15,000 – 13,000 BC. Dordogne, Fance
Goldsworthy, Andy. Clay Wall.
1999. Clay. Musée Départmental
De Digne, Digne-Les-Baines,
Haute Province, France.

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