Land Art
Land art or environmental art is a kind of art form where the artist explores visual ideas on the land. They often uses nature to create their work or in the case of South African artist , Strijdom van der Merwe, use things they find along the way.
His artworks include the use of sand, water , stone , wood and rock.
Click the link above to enjoy some of his extraordinary works.
One of my favourite land artists is Andy Goldsworthy. Andy uses leaves and twigs and flowers and all sorts of large pieces from nature to create his work. His work can be colourful or it might be simply just the browns of the bark of the tree or the white of the stones. His work is soft and enjoying to the eye.
This Youtube video shares some of his beautiful work.
Other land artists include Carl Andre, Alice Aycock, Walter De Maria, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Ana Mendieta, Dennis Oppenheim, Andrew Rogers, Charles Ross, Alan Sonfist, and James Turrell.
Perhaps you would like to check them out?
Land art has often got an architectural feel to it because it is just so huge. Many artists will leave their work nature will erase it as time goes by.
Land art really only began its art development in the 1960"s - about 50 years ago. Artists were exploring and using their nature art to protest against the materialism of the time, much like we protest and shout our that our environment is in trouble, today.
Here is a link to some f the early Land Artists and their work. It is lovely to see which country they come from
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