(Thanks in part to Natural Architecture from the Princeton Architectural Press)
Land art is at the heart of history and the human experience, from primitive cave drawings to ancient stone henges. In modern times, increased artistic freedom coupled with technical and conceptual innovations have liberated land artists to create ever more amazing works of natural sculpture and earth architecture. Some of these are mind-boggling in scale while other smaller works are astonishing for the amount of thought, effort and material that went into their making.
Some land artists prefer to use natural material to represent real forms found in nature while others prefer artificial geometric patterns. Some bend and twist their material palette to fit a preconceived vision of a piece while others take what they find and augment, enhance or interpret it through their work. Whatever their approaches, these eighteen earth artists have accomplished amazing things with mother nature. Click below to learn more:
-
- Architectural Spaces from Living Trees
-
- Colorful Earth Art of Andy Goldsworthy
-
- The Mud Man and Moss Maiden
-
- Abandoned Quarry to Landscaped Park
-
- Giant Sand Beach Drawings of Jim Denevan
-
- Profound Monumental Works of Richard Long
-
- Artificial Natural Forest by Giuliano Mauri
-
- Massive Representational Earth Sculpture
-
- Chris Drury Remote Nature Abode
-
- Christo Running Fence Installation Art
-
- Christo Colorful Umbrella Landscape Art
-
- Cadillac Ranch Postmodern Desert Sculpture
-
- Growing Tree Building of Sanfte Strukturen
-
- Bruni and Barbarit Land Art
-
- David Nash and Mikael Hanson Earth Art
-
- Giant Desert Mounded Earth City
-
- Amazing Hedge Mazes and Labyrinths
If you are new to WebEcoist, click here to sign up for the RSS feed and take a look through our archives and galleries. Also be sure to visit WebUrbanist and see architecture, interiors, furniture and more design at Dornob.
-
Sharing:
-
Subscribe
-
Email to Friend
-
Del.Icio.Us
-
StumbleUpon
Check Out These Great Related Articles:
Water, Snow and Ice Art and Sculpture
Water flows with gravity, water levels rise and fall with time and water even transforms from a liquid into a solid - providing amazing material variety for an artist.
30 Awesome Works of Air, Sky & Wind Art
Air, wind and sky artists can challenge our preconceptions and broaden our (literal) horizons by problematizing the simplistic duality of Earth and Sky.
7 Comments
December 8th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Some of these photographs look like a scene from the lord of the rings. Like the photograph of the cars sticking out of the ground.
December 9th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Its getting even more weird with these bunch of wacko eco-freaks their as nutty as a fruitcake and twice fruity as well
December 9th, 2008 at 11:10 am
as much as i love the HD photography i enjoy webecoist (and urbanist) because, usually, you have the photo content as well as written content; which gives my mind a picture to use in order to recall the adjoining information. for example, i believe the sand art (beach art or what have you) has been featured before, but i would to have loved to know more information about the ‘artificial forest’ as well as its artist. just my .02$, thanks & keep up the great work!!
March 15th, 2009 at 7:54 am
I love it! If I remember correctly Permaculture Activist somewhat recently based an issue on Art and Permaculture, reminding us of the importance of art in our landscapes.
In the future I would like to see more photos added to this page!
Trackbacks
What do you think? Leave a comment!