What is art?
Land Art is a form of art that includes the use of a physical landscape to create art, forced people to see art in context and eliminate the provenance of art from the museum and to the outside world. For centuries, people have been creating works of art with landscape, but the Modern Land Art Movement really started in the 1960s when American artists began to create ground works on a large scale. Today, the works of modern land art can be seen around the world, sometimes right next to the much older pieces of the land of art created by people who lived thousands of years ago. For example, Spiral Jetty , the famous ground art created in 1970 in a large salt lake, is made with a collection of stones, salt and mud. The artist, Robert Smithson, carved a large pier in a spiral shape that protrudes into the waters of the lake. The spiral current you is not designed for use in a practical sense, but rather admired.
the transformationThe landscape is a common feature of land art, as in the case of works of art that are created by carving into the landscape and moving components. People can also add things to the environment to create land arts, from imported stones to structures made with regionally available material. It is also possible to install a landscape using plants. In all cases, the works of art are immovable, but not necessarily unchanged.
In fact, it is one of the main differences between this type of art and mostly art in the museum that land art is designed to evolve, change and eventually disintegrate. Some works of art are relatively ephemeral, only a few hours or days, while others are deliberately exposed to erosion and wind to distort over time. Your earthwork is part of the appeal in the eyes of the artist.
Many artists carefully documented the process of creating with photographs and videos to keep their land records. EspeciallyIn the case of installations of distant arts, such records can be vital because they allow people to see art without having to travel. In other cases, the ephemeral nature of art is part of the point and no documentation that would force people to travel to art if they want to see it. Some artists feel that the physical interaction with soil installations is an important part of the monitoring process and sometimes visitors are sometimes invited to contribute to art in some way.