Isamu Noguchi‘s (1904-1988) design for “Contoured Playground”(1941) in New York is sometimes interpreted as an important early piece of land art. It is a different way of understanding nature and the science of geometry. Richard Long and David Nash, both born in 1945 and Andy Goldsworthy, born in 1956 have. It is an art that connects us with the earth, ephemeral, changing and that is related to prehistoric art and the manifestations of anthropological and ethnographic art.
The siting of the works was usually distant from population centers. As a trend, it expanded boundaries in techniques by using materials as soil, rocks, vegetation and water found on-site. Land art was inspired by minimal art and conceptual art but also by modern movements such as De Stijl and cubism. Exponents of land art rejected the museum or gallery as the setting of artistic activity and developed monumental landscape projects which were beyond the reach of traditional transportable sculpture and the commercial art market. The art movement coincided with the popularity of the rejection of urban living and an enthusiasm for that which is rural. A similar trend emerged in the 1960s and 1970s of the 20 th century when a new art movement surfaced, the Land Art, or environmental art.Ĭoncerns of the Land Art centered around rejection of the commercialization of art-making and enthusiasm with an emergent ecological movement. For many artists we are living a moment of introspection, of creation. An inner call towards the rural world is present and a new feeling of ecology and the return to the local are growing. This work is exemplary of his quiet but transformative interventions, which conceptualize the notions of nature and decay. His natural and situational sculptures are often created using material found nearby, arranged into Modernist-inspired shapes and patterns. Measures of social distancing and reduced capacity underway, the concept of city is evolving. Andy Goldsworthy has been producing significant and moving environmental works for over twenty-five years. Among the many social and lifestyle changes that we have been experiencing since the current public health situation began, one of them is a new relationship with nature.
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