Project: Earth Day is a day to reflect on our planet, our environment and what we can do to help keep them healthy. 🌎🌿🌸 In today’s lesson, we’re going to create our own works of art based off of British artist #AndyGoldsworthy!
Andy Goldsworthy makes site-specific sculptures and land art in natural settings! His art involves the use of natural and found objects (such as flowers, mud, ice, leaves, twigs, pebbles, pine cones, etc.) to create temporary works of art! 🍃🍁🐚🍄🌼These pieces appear naturalistic, but create CONTRAST from their surroundings in both FORM and COLOR.
The "Land Art" movement creates temporary art by working with nature. Many Land Art creations are made solely by using bare hands and natural tools. Since Land Artwork is temporary, it should be photographed immediately upon completion so that it captures the art before it decays, falls apart, or floats away! 📸⏳ “To work with nature means to work with time!”
What's one common theme we notice in Andy Goldworthy's artwork? It's that he tends to create radial (circular) art! ⭕️An object or shape with radial symmetry can be "divided with a line" in any directions and each side of the line is identical. For us to start our Land Art pieces, we'll begin by creating a MIDPOINT in our center, and then building out from there!
Happy art makin’, artists!!!
MATERIALS: Anything you can find in nature! There are no material substitutions because this project allows for personalization of items YOU have in your own yard!
I CAN create a piece of Land Art with found objects in Nature.
I CAN demonstrate radial symmetry in my artwork.
I CAN create with a VARIETY of TEXTURES, and show CONTRAST in COLOR or FORM with the materials I use.
I CAN demonstrate radial symmetry in my artwork.
I CAN create with a VARIETY of TEXTURES, and show CONTRAST in COLOR or FORM with the materials I use.
Check out these awesome examples of Student Artwork:
