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7 Environmental Artists Fighting for Change
August 17, 2016
How Can Environmental Art Change the World?
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7 Environmental Artists Fighting for Change
Artist (s) in Focus, Top Lists, Art History
August 17, 2016
Lorenzo Pereira
Environmental artists have been praised not only for great works they create, but also for raising awareness about environmental problems our planet faces... Environmental art is a very broad term, and it includes a number of different practices and movements. Land art, Earth art, Sustainable art, Conceptual Art – these are only a few movements that can be described as environmental art as well. That is why environmental artists are using a wide range of media, techniques and styles. Even Claude Monet is often described as an environmentalist for his famous paintings where the creators explored humans’ relation to nature ( London Series paintings, for example). As a movement, environmental art emerged in the 1960s when famous individuals such as Nils Udo, Jean-Max Albert and Piotr Kowalski paved the way for this form of art expression. They have been continuously creating environment-related work since then thus spreading the ideas of environmental art. Speaking about them, it’s important to make a distinction between those who are not focused so much on environmental issues and those who are part of this movement particularly aiming to explore relations between nature and the human world, aiming to raise awareness toward ecological problems. Some famous land creatives, such as Christo and Robert Smithson (who made the famous Spiral Jetty) were criticized for permanent ecological damage some of their pieces had caused. However, working within the field of arts, many of them have spent a lot of time exploring the relationship between mankind's world and the natural environment. How Can Environmental Art Change the World?