LAND ART

Land Art was one of the most popular art movements in the 1960s and 1970s, and the most famous works of that movement are found in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Land Art was born because artists wanted to create works that could not be exhibited in art galleries, to combat the commercialization of art and because, moreover, there was also a growing concern for our ecosystem.

It is, therefore, a revolutionary artistic inclination that makes nature the basis of a work; the name Land Art derives from the use by artists of materials found in nature (rocks, plants, trees or even hills) to create their works which, for this reason, are not destined to last over time but deteriorate and they vanish along with what surrounds them. The works, for this reason, are almost always documented with photographs or films so as not to forget them.

Land Art was heavily inspired by Minimalism, Cubism and De stijl, as well as the works of Constantin Brancusi and Joseph Beuys. The name derives from the title of the film by Gerry Schum, in which the works of some artists who come out of the traditional spaces of museums to exhibit and create works in uncontaminated territories (such as deserts, frozen lakes or prairies) are represented.

The most important Land Artists were Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Long, Marinus Boezem and Eberhard Bosslet.