ART IN LANDSCAPE

Compiled by-
Ar. Chitra Srivastava
Electric landscape- Land art
variation in scale?
• WHAT IS LAND ART OR ART IN LANDSCAPE?

Land art is an art form that is created in nature using natural materials such as bed
rock, boulders, stones, logs, branches, leaves and water.
In Art in Landscape , sculptures are not placed in the landscape; rather, the
landscape is the means of their creation.( means with the help of landscape you
are creating art)
The works of art frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization,
left to change and erode under natural conditions. These kind of art called site
specific sculpture, designed for a particular outdoor location.

Some artists like Javacheff Christo and

Jeanne-Claude ( French artists) created
environmental works of art.
The purpose of their art, they contend, is
simply to create works of art or joy and
beauty and to create new ways of seeing
familiar landscapes.

New York City, 2004

Christo in his studio working on a
preparatory drawing
The works of installation by artists Javacheff Christo and Jeanne-Claude show the untapped
potential of spatial experience not often seen in more purely functional or purely artistic
works of design.
Wrapped
tree was
extremely
dynamic:
varying
shapes of
trees moved
in the wind
with the
skeletal
framework
of branches
made visible
when the
translucent
material was
back lighted
by the sun

WRAPPED TREE
Anish Kapoor - Sky Mirror a public sculpture(2006)
Kensington Gardens, London
British sculptor photographer and environmentalist Andy Goldsworthy’s producing
site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. The
materials used in Andy Goldsworthy’s art often include brightly colored flowers,
icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns
“When I make
something, in a
field or street, it
may vanish but
it’s part of the
history of those
places,”

- Andy
Goldsworthy
 SPIRAL JETTY by Robert Irving Smithson

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges
during drought.
• Built in 1970 of mud, salt crystals,
basalt, and dirt, the Spiral Jetty is 1500
feet long and extends far out into the
Great Salt Lake.

• Built during a drought by Robert

Smithson, once the water levels returned
to normal the spiral was then submerged
for three decades, reemerging during a
drought in 2004.

• The black basalt rocks are now covered

with white salt coatings, and the water
has a pink hue to it. The jetty disappears
if the lake level is higher than 4,197 feet,
and currently the jetty is again in danger
of disappearing once again.
Simon Beck's astonishing landscape and snow art
THE COLOSSAL LAND ART OF JIM DENEVAN

Art on Sand
Temporary land art, using natural materials to create massive scale drawings on earth, sand
and ice. His sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape are the means of
their creation. Often aerial photography or video is needed to fully grasp the final work.
 ART IN PUBLIC SPACES
In recent years, public art has increasingly begun to expand in scope and application —

The public art have often been realized in response to creatively engaging a
community’s sense of ‘place’ or ‘wellbeing’ in society.

Public spaces and art in it is a social health related to environmental design. It

contributes to community health and also contributes in the following-

• Social inclusion and social cohesion

• Physical qualities/design, facilities, amenities
• Aesthetics
• Physical and social context
• Accessibility and safety
• Economics, funding, and employment
• Creativity and art
• Identity and vision

• One of such examples of social integration in form of public art is –

Carpet of Joy in Goa by Subodh Kerkar

Goa’s very own Carpet of Joy by Subodh Kerkar is activism through public art
 For the installation, 2000
square meters of plastic net
was fixed by the uncapped
mouth of upturned crafted 1
litre bottles.

Goa is with a beautiful coastline, unfortunately, its much loved

environment has been steadily deteriorating over the decades.
It is not an uncommon sight to see beaches and the sides of
roads strewn with litter.
 Giant Fish Sculptures Made from
Discarded Plastic Bottles in Rio

As part of the UN Conference on

Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an
enormous outdoor installation of fish
was constructed using discarded plastic
bottles on Botafogo beach in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. The sculptures are
illuminated from the inside at night
creating a pretty spectacular light show
sculptures that have been made of scrap
and other kinds of wastes (bottles,
glasses, bangles, tiles, ceramic pots,
sinks, electrical waste, broken pipes,
etc.) which are placed in walled paths.

by NekChand
VARIOUS PROPOSALS FOR LANDART IN ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN STUDIO-