This is a earth Art by Robert Smithson build of mud salt chystals and basalt rock, on the side of the Great Salt Lake in Utah USA. Its 460m long and 4.6m coil (koru).
**********This work and this artist (also Robert Smithson) caught my attention, with the "Koru" imagry i thought of being on an Air New Zealand flight and seeing this in the clouds. Or in the snow!! that would be a sight to behold!
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Here is a Richard Long Work from 1976 , it could be seen a more contempory and sylized than the Line Made by walking made in 1967.
Earth art reflected upon the environmental issues and minimalism was the style used in this era, upon a huge scale, being that the size, mass, time and space were of of the hugest proportions sometimes. eg; Robert Smithson!!
Richard Long, 119 Stones, made 1976
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Richard Long - A Line Made By Walking, 1967
This is a earlier work, but an excellent example of the scale of space used.
I have learnt that it just goes to show, a canvas or paper is not always necessary in the art studio when the composition of art is being planned... food for thought... - i learnt.
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I especially like Robert Smithson's 'Spiral Jetty', This work made ground-breaking contributions to the world of art and particularly how people viewed it. This clearly was inappropriate in scale for an art gallery which created the experience. I also like his 'Broken Circle' 1971- where He reconstructs the earth into a sense of an arty world. Another artist you might want to check out who works with nature is Andy Goldsworthy.
Thanks Sarah,
I love the fact that you called Smithson's spiral a "koru" and I agree, we should build one here!
The only local Land Art that I know of on a similar scale is actually by John Reynolds, the artist who made the text works from the NZ dictionary. They include massive plantings of tussock and something called "Golden Spaniard." When asked if they were NZ's largest artworks, he replied that they were NZ's "slowest" artworks!
TX
Taishia,
Nice comments; relevant, concise and backed up with your prior knowledge. It appears that you understand the task of commenting
Cheers Hobbs
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