What is environmental art?
Environmental art, which often deal with ecological problems, can have countless forms and be made of different substances. Environmental art encounters the natural world through object, materials or places chosen for art. However, some environmental artists deal more with a done work of art than its environmental impact.
Environmental art is a broad term involving country, place work and other types of art that relate to the environment. The term became popular in the 60s and 70s, when several different artists decided to use the landscape as a medium for their works of art. One of the most famous environmental artists is Robert Smithson, who in 1970 completed Spiral Jetty . This terrestrial work of the spiral, which is made of black rock, earth and salt, sits on the coast of a large salt lake. Spiral Jetty was submerged underwater for decades until 2004LT Lake dropped due to drought conditions similar to the construction of works of art.
Two other artists of the same era as Smithson, Walter de Maria and Michael Heizer, used the landscape for artistic statements in different ways. In 1971, Walter de Maria Lightning Field consisted of a group of 400 stainless steel bars located in a flat open field in New Mexico. As the name suggests, during the storm Lightning Field could attract the ever -changing range of lightning screws. Michael Heizer finished double negative in 1970 with a bulldozing of about 240,000 tons of dirt and rocks in Mormon Mesa in Nevada to create two 30 feet (about 9 meters) wide ramps.
Environmental artists are divided among their concerns about the final product and environmental concerns. Smithson, de Maria and Heizer obviously not very much care of their changes to the landscape and damage, ktEré could cause an environment. However, other artists of the environmental environment, as well as Richard Long, show more concerns about the environment. Most of the works of art of Long's environments consist of minor landscape modifications. Artist Ulrike Arnold uses natural pigments that he collects from all over the world to create paintings on screen.
Some artists, such as Allan Comp, regenerate contaminated soil to create environmental art. COMP worked with a group of artists, scientists and engineers to restore the area polluted by coal mines. The park that Company and its collaborators created is also a natural water treatment system that filters toxic metals from the water.