Earth/Land art

Vita

(Robert Smithson spiral Jetty April 1970)

5 key artists1.
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Robert Smithson
Arte Povera
Richard Long
Isamu Noguchi
Joseph Beuys

5 artistic elements1. Art created in nature (rejection of traditional art and museum spaces)
2. Natural disintegration (making the art have a sort of evolution)
3. Simple shapes, geometric shapes
4. Sometimes documentarians would travel with the artists
5. Picked damaged sites for work to symbolize renewal and rebirth
Philosophy- Motivation from the environmental movement, artists began to create art that was
out-of-the-norm. The art was experimental and extremely simple. It also tended to be
temporary, the artists would create something beautiful and amazing, but only visible until nature

takes its course. The creation of this art was solely for aesthetic and beauty, artists tried to stress
ephemerality.
Citations1. http://www.theartstory.org/movement-earth-art.htm
2. http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/land-art