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land art

n.
The creation of artistic forms, often on a large scale, using local natural materials such as earth, sand, or rock. Also called earth art.
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Here was the pioneer of Kinetic Art, Land Art, participatory art and live art; someone lauded by the international community as an 'icon,' an 'influence and inspiration,' and a 'unique figure in the history of 20th-century art.'
The major land art restoration success on the Duke of Buccleuch's Queensberry Estate has transformed the former open cast coal mine into a stunning representation of theories of the universe, linking the themes of space, astronomy and cosmology.
There are galleries focusing on minimal art, conceptual art, land art, painting from the 1980s and video and photography from the 1990s.
Local artists are invited to submit art that is inspired by the local landscape for The Land Conservancy of McHenry County's 11th annual Art of the Land art show and fundraiser.
It was during her studies abroad that Al-Ghamdi's artistic knowledge greatly expanded, and land art was her greatest influence.
Summary: A powerful and moving land art installation is quietly remembered all those who fell in the muddy battlefield of Ypres during the First World War
Jackson Land art has featured in the OVO Energy Tour of Britain but this will be the first time that The Tour has held a competition to find the best piece of land art.
Festivalgoers have the opportunity to create land art, investigate and observe natural science, listen and debate.
Entrants may propose work in any medium including, but not limited to: photography, sculpture, installation, land art, or video.
This color-illustrated art book spotlights Spiral Jetty, a 1,500-foot-long manmade project in the Great Salt Lake in Utah, designed by American artist Robert Smithson, a major figure of the Land Art movement.
"Art and China After 1989"--the first major survey of contemporary Chinese art in almost two decades--seeks to ignite its own blaze with a sprawling display of more than one hundred works in the fields of film, video, painting, photography, installation, Land art, and performance art by some seventy artists and collectives.