1. LAND ART
EARTH
INTERVENTION

2. Land Art
• LAND ART= art + nature
• “Land art, or Earth art is an art movement
which emerged in the United States in the late
1960s and early 1970s.”
• “It is an art form that is created in nature,
using natural materials such as soil, rock,
organic media, and water with introduced
materials such as concrete, metal, asphalt, or
mineral pigments.”

3. It is NOT a sculpture….
• “Land Art is not an object placed in the
landscape, rather, the landscape is the means
of their creation.”
• “The works frequently exist in the open,
located well away from civilization, left to
change and erode under natural conditions.”
• It is mostly ephemeral (disappears with time)
• Photographic registration is what is left.
• Big dimensions

4. Origins of LAND ART
• The first images we have of man making art
with land, is the Nazca Lines in Perú. 400-650
B.C.

5. Nazca Lines

6. Nazca Lines

7. Nazca Lines

8. LAND ART
around the world

9. Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. 1970, Utah

10. Spiral Jetty air view

11. Surrounded
Islands
by Christo and
Jean Claude
1980-83

13. Initial drawing for Surrounded Islands

14. Running Fence
by Christo and
Jean Claude
1972-76, California

16. 5 meters high, 39 km long

17. Initial drawing for Running Fence

18. Pont Neuf
Wrapped
by Christo and
Jean Claude
1975-85, Paris

21. Initial drawings for Pont Neuf

22. Wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jean
Claude. 1971-95, Berlin

25. Initial drawings for Wrapped Reichstag

26. The Lightning Field by Walter de Maria.
1977, New Mexico

27. 400 stainless steel poles

28. Stick Road by David Nash

29. Barack Obama by Dario Gambarín

34. Other examples of
Land Art…..
easier to make!

35. Stone spiral

36. Stone totem

37. Stone window

38. Leaf spiral

39. Stick mirror

40. Some examples done in our school!
Shadow Shield

41. Rocks and Water Shield

42. The Umbrella Tree

43. Recycling Circle in Rocks and Sand

44. Flag Patio Wrapping

45. Cement Block Spiral