General Beckground of Earth Art

Earth art refers to movements of artists with wide ranging goals. All of their pieces were created in nature with materials such as stones, dirt, and leaves. Most of the works are sculptures but there are some paintings. The pieces show things like the slow process of erosion and the movement of planets, stars, or the sun. Earth art captures an artist’s impression of nature. Rather than an exact duplicate of nature, the works are the artist’s own interpretations of the essence of nature. The movement began to develop in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s
Earth art does not often ha...