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weepingwidar · 18 days

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Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973) - The Serpent of Blood (1961-1962)

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milksockets · 2 months

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'spiral jetty' by robert smithson, 1970 in xxl: when artists think big - éléa baucheron + diane routex (2014)

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zegalba · 1 year

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Robert Smithson: Broken Circle (1971)

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athinginmotion · 1 month

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Spirals in art

Fern Ammonite - Liz McGowan (1997) | Red and White Shell - Georgia O'Keeffe (1938) | Spiral Jetty - Robert Smithson (1970) | Snow labyrinth - apulkkan on Flickr | Sculpting the Land: Artistic Interventions with the Landscape - Strijdom van der Merwe (2005) | Spiral detail from The Lindisfarne Gospels (715 - 720) | The Westray Stone, Neolithic era stone carving found in Pierowall Quarry, Orkney, Scotland | Untitled - Andy Goldsworthy | Untitled, no 2 of 12, from series Spirals - Louise Bourgeois, 2006 | 12th century snake mosaic, Church of Saint Adriano di San Demetrio Corone in Calabria, Italy | Snow Drawings - Sonja Hinrichsen (2014) |

#thinking thoughts #art #spirals #andy goldsworthy #louise bourgeois #lindisfarne gospels #georgia o'keeffe #robert smithson #sonja hinrichsen #westray stone #i kind of want a spiral tattoo...

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golden-west · 2 months

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contemporary-disquiet · 9 months

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ROBERT SMITHSON, Yucatan Mirror Displacements (1-9), 1969

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archiveofaffinities · 1 year

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970

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berndwuersching · 2 years

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Robert Smithson Mirrors and Shelly Sand, 1969-1970 Fifty 12-inch x 48-inch mirrors, back to back; beach sand with shells or pebbles 96 in. × 30 ft. (243.8 × 914.4 cm) approx.

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nobrashfestivity · 2 years

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, black basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, and water, 1,500 ft. long and approximately 15 ft. wide. © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation, licensed by VAGA, New York.

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woundgallery · 5 months

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Robert Smithson, Closed Mirror Square (Cayuga Salt Mine Project), 1969.

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littlekiwi78 · 4 months

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Environmental Art

Roughly Ranges from 1965-Present

Environmental or Land Art rose from a desire to reconnect to the land and move art outside of the gallery.

-Smithson, Spiral Jetty (1970).

The Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake in Utah made by Robert Smithson is 1500 feet long and meant to be walked on. It provides an introspective exercise for those who interact and reconnects them with the environment.

-Heizer, Double Negative (1970)

Michael Heizer cut two trenches into the Norman Mesa in Nevada stretching over 1500 feet long. With machinery, Heizer cut gashes into the mesa to heighten its contours.

--Art such as this critiques the art world. It cannot fit in a museum or gallery, you cannot buy or sell it and it is not reserved for the elite. Art such as this conveys a phenomenological experience and integrates humanity with nature.

-Mendieta, Silueta Series (1973-79)

Ana Mendieta created her Silueta Series to display a different kind of environmental art in which rather than taking away from nature she adds herself to it. Mendieta collaborates with nature by inserting her body into the earth reconnecting with nature. Her process is much more personal as opposed to the prior two artists.

-Goldsworthy, Slate Arch (1982)

Andy Goldsworthy is a well-known environmental artist who often uses more ephemeral mediums for his creations. His art is made from found environmental objects such as ice, snow, rocks, or leaves. Nature provides the materials that he uses.

#art #art history #environment #enviroment art #environmetalists #andy goldsworthy #ana mendieta #michael heizer #robert smithson

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weepingwidar · 8 days

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