Title: Environmental Art: what it is, examples and artists - Iberdrola
Headings: Environmental artists, a sustainable trend
WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL ART?
Environmental artists, a sustainable trend
ART AND NATURE
CHARACTERISTICS AND AIMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ART
FROM 'LAND ART' TO 'ARTE POVERA'
GREAT ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS
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Content: Nature is also a recurring theme in other visual arts. It has inspired everything from the gardens of Versailles (France) by André Le Nôtre to sculptures like Peine del Viento by Eduardo Chillida in San Sebastián (Spain) and the photographs of Yosemite National Park in the United States by Californian Ansel Adams. Japanese architecture blends into its surroundings by using plant materials like paper, bamboo and wood. 'Green Wheat Fields, Auvers', by Vincent Van Gogh (1890). 'The Poppy Field near Argenteuil', by Claude Monet, 1875. 'Mont Sainte-Victoire', by Paul Cezanne, (1902-1906). Go Highlight 0
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CHARACTERISTICS AND AIMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ART
Environmental art encompasses these traditional genres and modern art, addressing ethics and conservationist activism. This new approach to art emerged at the end of the sixties and, unlike the classics, it does more than depict a landscape or include the environment in its creations. The environment becomes the work of art, to raise awareness of the harm we are causing to the environment and call us to action. Our polluted air and oceans, global warming, deforestation and the consequences of mass consumption for the environment are among the subjects dealt with by contemporary environmental art through photography, painting, drama, dance and sculpture, among other disciplines.