Land Art

Land art is created by combining art and nature in a complicated way. Land art is also called earth art or earth work. This art is designed directly in the natural landscape with the help of natural materials and the help of organic media such as leaves, stones, earth, rocks, water, logs. Mechanical earthmoving machines are also used by a few artists. Artists show the reaction to industrialization and urbanization through land art. Before the origin of contemporary land art, it has been created by artists for centuries.

This is where "land art" enters the story of the universe. Land art is also called "earthwork" and refers to art constructed on the ground or on the surface of the earth. The largest and most famous land art work is located in the remote area of ​​the desert in the southwest United States of America. The following works created or started after the Apollo program are large in scale and have very important meanings. Star Axis. Charles Ross's "Star Axis" (approaching completion from now in 1973) is located at the edge of the spectacular platform in northern New Mexico and is a huge steel sculpture designed for the naked eye viewing platform against Polaris, Star Axis is accurate for thousands of years.

From the 1960s to the 1970s, Land Art protested "ruthless commercialization" of American art. Meanwhile, representatives of land art refused to use art museums and galleries as a scene of artistic activities, photography literature often appeared in regular gallery space, but beyond the traditional movable sculpture and commercial art market He developed a monumental landscape project. Land art is inspired by minimalist and conceptual art and is inspired by contemporary movements such as De Stijl, Cubism, Minimalism, ConstantinBrâncuşi and Joseph Beuys. Many artists related to land art are involved in minimalist art and conceptual art. Isamu Noguchi's 1941 design of the contour playground in New York was interpreted as an important initial land art work, but the artist himself never calls his work "land art" It was.