An earth artist seeks a return to Nature by blending landscaping and art. Land artists as we know them today emerged in the 1960s as a reaction to what they perceived to be a spiritual coldness in the commercialism of modern art and museums. They turned back to the land itself as not only their source of inspiration, but as the source of materials to use in building their earthworks. Ultimately, Nature itself became the display forum for their art, with each work literally emerging out of the landscape as a unique expression of the artist’s personal vision of culture, life, and spirit. Earth artists create both concrete and abstract forms. There is no size limit to the works they create.
The more well known works of this genre are massive in size. The Spiral Jetty on the Great Salt Lake, for example, is 1,500 feet long. Each time the lake drops to a very low level, the spiral coil rises up above its surface. In Australia, the Bungil geoglyph uses 1,500 tons of rock to create the image of a bird with a 100 foot wingspan. The largest earthwork in the world consisting of stone sculptures located in 12 different sites and is known as the Rhythms of Life.
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