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: Environmental artists, a sustainable trend
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Art and the environment appeal to reason and feelings. What happens when we mix them? The answer is environmental art, a movement adopted by artists of different disciplines, who are inspired by nature or use it as a raw material, transmitting its beauty and encouraging us to take care of it. Environmental art forces us to think about the consequences of our behaviour on the planet. The natural wonders of the planet have inspired us to express ourselves in more than words for thousands of years. From Palaeolithic cave paintings to high impact digital photographs of the animal kingdom. However, the environmental crisis we now experiencing has driven a new artistic movement that goes beyond capturing and depicting nature as in the past, to transforming nature into the work itself. ART AND NATURE
The first thing that comes to mind when you think of nature in art is landscapes. This genre of painting has been popular in Asia since ancient times but was disparaged in Europe until it became fashionable in the Dutch baroque period and was then exported to other countries. The world's most renowned landscape painters include the Flemish master Jacob van Ruisdael, John Constable from England, American Thomas Cole, Dutchman Vincent Van Gogh and Monet and Cézanne from France, among many others.