Andy Goldsworthy Land art1

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2. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Millennium Cairn Situated a short distance east of Stepends Farm near Penpont Cairns are traditionally Scottish journey markers constructed of stacked stones--symbolizing fullness and ripeness, time and energy, loss and endurance

3. Cairn in the Réserve Géologique de Haute-Provence Andy Goldsworthy(English, 1956)Cairn - University of Hertfordshire

4. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Cairn, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire

5. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956)Cairn,Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire

6. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Cairn, National Park Booloumba Falls Australia Cairn, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire

7. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Cairn, outside the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California

8. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956)Cairn, Neuberger Museum of Art in New York, 2001 Cairns are “stone structures (or markers) that identify a place of great importance. Their dry-stone construction represents an engineering feat as well as artistic creativity. The process of shaping and stacking the stones into a simple oval shape is challenging and intense. The form symbolizes fullness and ripeness, time and energy, loss and endurance.”

9. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Cairn in Sapsucker woods

10. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956)Three Cairns - Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation

11. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Three Cairns, Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation Cairn and One of Three Surrounding Walls

12. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956)Three Cairns - Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation

13. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956)La Vallee du Vançon, Reserve Geologique de Haute Provence, 1999 La Vallee du Bes Sentinelle de la Vallée du Bès

14. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Three Sandstone Cones Gracefield Arts Centre, 1986

15. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park “Hanging Trees” amplifies a dynamic and complex relationship between wood and stone that has long been central to Goldsworthy’s work: stone being traditionally viewed as permanent and trees symbolic of mortal life.

16. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

17. Andy Goldsworthy (British, 1956) Hanging Tree 2007 Yorkshire Sculpture Park

18. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Outclosure, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

19. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Stone Room sculpture displayed at West Yorkshire Sculpture Park

20. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire Carefully broken pebblesscratched white with another stone Scotland, 1985 Floodstones Cairn (1991-2003) Kentuck Knob Sculpture collection Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania

21. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Room (1992) located in the Kentuck Knob Sculpture collection in Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania

22. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Slate Hole Wall, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh

23. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Road, Ohio, 2016

24. Yorkshire Sculpture Park Stacked Oak, a cone-shaped pile made from branches that were felled locally, which have been interlaced so that the piece is held up by its own bulk Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Stick spire Helbeck, Cumbria

25. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire (2008) in San Francisco's Presidio national park

26. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire (2008) San Francisco's Presidio national park

27. Andy Goldsworthy’s towering sculpture Spire (2008) is constructed from the trunks of 37 Monterey cypress trees felled as part of the Presidio’s reforestation effort. Inspired by the form of church bell towers but rooted in the earth. From its 15-foot diameter the Spire rises more than 90 feet into the air.

28. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire (2008) in San Francisco's Presidio national park

29. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire (2008) In June 2021, Spire – one of Andy Goldsworthy’s four art installations in the Presidio park – suffered fire damage

30. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Spire is stable, which means it can stay in place

31. The sculpture is fated to fade into the forest as young cypress trees planted at its base ultimately grow to obscure the piece – like the old forest welcoming the new

32. Andy Goldsworthy’s ‘Wood Line’ installation made from fallen trees snakes through the Presidio

33. In 2010, at the roots of the eucalyptus trees in the Presidio 'Woodline'

34. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Rock Arch Whale bone ball, Sculpture in the National Museum of Scotland

35. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) British Museum (Stonework), 1994

36. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Walking Wall, 2019 Kansas City

37. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Walking Wall, 2019 Kansas City

38. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall Storm King Art Center, commonly referred to as Storm King and named after its proximity to Storm King Mountain, is an open-air museum located in New Windsor, New York.

39. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall

40. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall

41. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall

42. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall

43. Andy Goldsworthy (English, 1956) Storm King Wall

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45. Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United States but also includes examples from many countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded boundaries of art by the materials used and the siting of the works. The materials used were often the materials of the Earth, including the soil, rocks, vegetation, and water found on-site, and the sites of the works were often distant from population centers. Though sometimes fairly inaccessible, photo documentation was commonly brought back to the urban art gallery. Andy Goldsworthy is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He was born in Cheshire on 26 July 1956, the son of Muriel (née Stanger) and F. Allin Goldsworthy (1929–2001), a former professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds. He grew up on the Harrogate side of Leeds. From the age of 13, he worked on farms as a labourer. He has likened the repetitive quality of farm tasks to the routine of making sculpture: "A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it." He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art from 1974 to 1975 and at Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire) from 1975 to 1978, receiving his BA from the latter. The materials used in Goldsworthy's art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. Goldsworthy viewed his artistic process as a “collaboration with nature,” in which he was uncovering the essence of his materials and determining what they were capable of. His process required patience and flexibility; when sculpting with ice, for example, he would have to wait for the temperature to drop low enough. Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. Photographs (made primarily by Goldsworthy himself) of site-specific, environmental works allow them to be shared without severing important ties to place. According to Goldsworthy, "Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, marking the moment when the work is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. Process and decay are implicit."