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Earthworks is a form of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 created in nature that uses natural materials such as stone
Rock (geology)

In geology, rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock....
s, leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
, or soil
Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
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The most well-known example is probably the enormous four-mile-long human figure in northern South Australia known as Marree Man
Marree Man

File:Marree man.jpgThe Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant is a geoglyph discovered by air on 26 June 1998. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man, most likely of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, hunting birds or Wallaby with a throwing stick....
 which is both the largest example and also unique because it was created with apparently no witnesses whatsoever to the, presumably extensive, creative activity involved, and no artist or artists have ever come forward to claim it or been identified.

The term was coined by Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson was an United States artist famous for his land art....
, a major figure of the Land Art
Land art

Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked....
 movement.






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Earthworks is a form of art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
 created in nature that uses natural materials such as stone
Rock (geology)

In geology, rock is a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids.The Earth's outer solid layer, the lithosphere, is made of rock....
s, leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
, or soil
Soil

Soil is the naturally occurring, unconsolidated or loose covering on the Earth's surface. Soil is composed of particles of broken rock that have been altered by chemical and environmental processes including weathering and erosion....
.

The most well-known example is probably the enormous four-mile-long human figure in northern South Australia known as Marree Man
Marree Man

File:Marree man.jpgThe Marree Man, or Stuart's Giant is a geoglyph discovered by air on 26 June 1998. It appears to depict an indigenous Australian man, most likely of the Pitjantjatjara tribe, hunting birds or Wallaby with a throwing stick....
 which is both the largest example and also unique because it was created with apparently no witnesses whatsoever to the, presumably extensive, creative activity involved, and no artist or artists have ever come forward to claim it or been identified.

The term was coined by Robert Smithson
Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson was an United States artist famous for his land art....
, a major figure of the Land Art
Land art

Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked....
 movement. Earthworks
Earthworks (novel)

Earthworks is a 1965 dystopian science fiction novel by prolific British science fiction author Brian Aldiss....
 was first a science-fiction novel by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss

Brian Wilson Aldiss, Order of the British Empire, is a prolific England author of both general fiction and science fiction. His byline reads either Brian W....
, published in 1965, set in a world of environmental catastrophe. In 1967, Smithson took a copy of the novel with him on a trip to the Passaic River
Passaic River

The Passaic River is a river, approximately 80 mi long, in northern New Jersey in the United States. The river in its upper course flows in a highly circuitous route, meandering through the swamp lowlands between the ridge hills of rural and suburban northern New Jersey, called the Great Swamp, draining much of the northern portion of t...
 in New Jersey (where he created The Monuments of Passaic, 1967). He reused the title to describe some of his works, based on natural materials like earth and rocks, and infused with his ideas about entropy and environmental catastrophe.. Also in 1967 art critic
Art critic

An art critic is a person who specializes in evaluating art. Their written critiques, or reviews, are published in newspapers, magazines, books and on web sites....
 Grace Glueck writing in the New York Times declared the first earthworks were done by Richard Saba and Douglas Leichter at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine
Skowhegan, Maine

Skowhegan is a New England town in and the county seat of Somerset County, Maine, Maine, United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the town population was 8,824....
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See also

  • Land art
    Land art

    Land art, Earthworks, or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked....


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