Title: Environmental art - Wikipedia
Headings: Environmental art
Environmental art
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History: landscape painting and representation
Challenging traditional sculptural forms
Entering public and urban spaces
Ecoart
Considering environmental impact
Ecological awareness and transformation
Renewable energy sculpture
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Environmental art
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Artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works
Genre of art engaging nature and ecology
Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works. Environmental art has evolved away from formal concerns, worked out with earth as a sculptural material, towards a deeper relationship to systems, processes and phenomena in relationship to social concerns. Integrated social and ecological approaches developed as an ethical, restorative stance emerged in the 1990s. Over the past ten years environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront. The term "environmental art" often encompasses "ecological" concerns but is not specific to them. It primarily celebrates an artist's connection with nature using natural materials. The concept is best understood in relationship to historic earth/Land art and the evolving field of ecological art. The field is interdisciplinary in the fact that environmental artists embrace ideas from science and philosophy. The practice encompasses traditional media, new media and critical social forms of production. The work embraces a full range of landscape/environmental conditions from the rural, to the suburban and urban as well as urban/rural industrial.