Land Art / Earth Art / Environmental Art

This type of Land artwork started in the late 1960's, early 1970's in America. Inspired by Natural processes, it was a backlash reaction to the commercialisation of art, such as Warhol's pop art. I love the idea that land art is very time based, and decays over time, only recorded through videos and photographs for future reference


I also found that Ancient artworks such as the Cerne Giant have been made a permanent feature into the landscape, by being re-chalked every 25 years so future generations can see this ancient creation.

Although i find this ancient earthworks fascinating. I am more inclined to look at more contemporary land artists as i have always been interested in more contemporary views of this type of art work. I've always admired Andy Goldworthy's work, since coming across his work in Art in school. I love how he uses such natural objects from the his surrounding space and how he is inspired from the space in which he houses his sculptures.



I was also Fascinated by James Turrell's work. Most of his works usually enclose the viewer in order to control their perception of light. Turrell experiments with manipulating space and uses unnatural and natural light to create illusions.

I was also interested in Walter de Maria's 'lighting fields', I love how, by using 400 metal poles over an area of 1 mile, all at the same level in a very high lightening area, has been able to bring the earth and the sky together.