Art Talk with Professor Thomas Germano - Earth Art

Earth Art, also referred to as Land Art or Earthworks, is largely an American and British art movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures. While the roots of Earth Art can be traced back to antiquity, there was a return of the medium in the late 1960s when a greater consciousness to preserve the earth gained momentum and ‘Earth Day’ was established on April 22, 1970.
Earth art exists independently from the art market, commodification and ownership. Developing out of the Conceptual and Minimalist art movements of the 1960’s, Earth art is monumental and incorporates a minimalist simplicity of objects with the favored materials for Earthworks being those extracted directly from nature, such as stones, water, gravel, and soil. Influenced by prehistoric artworks, Earth artists left their structures exposed to the elements resulting in ephemerality and eventual disintegration of the works engaging entropy and transformation.
Earthworks by Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Mel Chin, Michael Heizer, Ana Mendieta, Walter de Maria, Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long in addition to Earth art’s earliest examples from antiquity ie: The Serpent Mound, Nazca Line Drawings, Olmec and Maya cave entry portals, and Stonehenge will be examined. Artists working with the earth, upon the earth will be the unifying theme in this visual and virtual lecture by Thomas Germano.

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Topic: Art Talk with Professor Thomas Germano - Earth Art
Time: Apr 26, 2021 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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