Showing posts with label Land Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Land Art. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Double Negative - Michael Heizer


We just learned about the 43 Roaring Forty by Carl Andre.

Another famous work of American Land Art is Double Negative by Michael Heizer, made in Nevada in 1969.

Artist Heizer was born in California in 1944, and became famous for making art that looked at positive and negative, and art where there is an empty space with something missing, or if something is there.

In the the desert in Nevada, he took a big rock and carved out two big trenches, each one 30 feet wide, 50 feet deep and 1,500 feet long.
He removed 244,000 tons of rock to make these trenches.

In between the trenches is a canyon, so it is like a long trench, then a big missing place where the canyon is, and then it connects to the other trench.

244,000 tons of it to make a trench.
There are canyons on either side of the trench, so it just looks like there is a big piece missing from this rock.

The artwork is called "Double Negative" with negative meaning missing. Because the trenches are like holes that are missing rocks, and then there is a missing space between the trenches, that is double missing or double negative.



(from: wikipedia - double negative (artwork)


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Saturday, May 29, 2021

43 Roaring Forty - Carl Andre


We just learned about the Roden Crater - James Turrell.

Another famous land art sculpture is 43 Roaring Forty by Carl Andre made in the Netherlands in 1988.

Andre was born in 1935 in Massachusetts.
He was famous for making abstract art in a minimalist style, usually with straight grids and lines.

In 1988 he made a sculpture called 43 Roaring Forty, which is like a long sidewalk made of 43 square blocks of steel.


(from: wikipedia - carl andre)


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Saturday, May 22, 2021

Roden Crater - James Turrell


We just learned about the Circles of Time by Alan Sonfist.

Another famous work of land art is Roden Crater - James Turrell.

This crater is from the inside of an old volcano that doesn't work anymore.
In 1979 James Turrell bought the land where the volcano is in Arizona.

After he bought the land, he built tunnels under the ground to walk through, with rooms that open up to see the sun, moon or stars in special ways without a telescope.


(from: wikipedia - roden crater)


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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Circles of Time - Alan Sonfist


We just learned about the famous American sculpture called The Gates by Christo and Jean-Claude.

Another famous land art sculpture is Circles of Time by Alan Sonfist in 1987.

In Tuscany Italy, Sonfist started with a bunch plants grouped together in one spot that were from the Tuscany area.
Around that he made a circle of branches from a forest that he coated in bronze, mixed in with thyme herbs growing there.
He made a second circle around that made of laurel.
A third circle around that is galestro stone.
The fourth circle is olive trees, and the last circle is made of wheat.

Each circle has a meaning to the people of Italy and the art is living so people can actually gather the wheat and other plants.


(from: wikipedia - alan sonfist)


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Saturday, May 8, 2021

The Gates - Christo and Jean-Claude


We just learned about the Two Running Violet V Forms by Robert Irwin.

Another famous American land art is The Gates by Christo and Jean-Claude made in New York City in 2005.



(from: wikipedia - the gates)


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Saturday, May 1, 2021

Two Running Violet V Forms - Robert Irwin


We just learned about the land art Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson.

Another famous land art is Two Running Violet V Forms made by artist Robert Irwin in 1983 in San Diego.

Irwin liked the forest with eucalyptus trees in this area, how there were so many of them and how the light throughout the day changed and made them look different.

He put violet colored fences up high that would help reflect the light as it was changing through the day and shining through the trees.

Irwin was born in 1928 in California, and went to art school in California.
He started off as a painter, but as he went on to do more abstract art he started making things like these fences that were part of landscapes.


(from: wikipedia - robert irwin (artist))


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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Spiral Jetty - Robert Smithson


We just learned about the Untitled - Dan Flavin.

Another famous American sculpture is Spiral Jetty, made by Robert Smithson in 1970 in Utah.

This is a type of art called Land Art, which uses the land and earth to make a sculpture.
Spiral Jetty is 1,500 feet long spiral, made of mud, salt crystals and rocks.

The artist Smithson was born in 1938 in New Jersey, and went to art school in New York City.


(from: wikipedia - spiral jetty)


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