Environmental Art and Photography

Andy Goldsworthy

“I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and “found” tools – a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn.” -Andy Goldsworthy
​Andy Goldsworthy makes land art, also known as earthworks or environmental art – works of art that are either built into the landscape or incorporate elements from the landscape into a work of art. Though land art has a history that stretches back to ancient times (many regard England’s Stonehenge and Peru’s Nazca Lines as early examples) the term “earthwork” was coined by art historians to describe works made by young modern artists in the 1960s, originally in the US and then internationally, who made artworks on and/or about the landscape.  Earthworks as a genre of creative expression gained increasing momentum throughout the 1960s as a number of artists began developing ideas that exceeded the boundaries of museums and galleries, exploring new possibilities and venues for their art.

Scholastic Art 2005 Issue - Andy Goldsworthy: Working with Ideas - Questions
Leave the Paint Behind: Make Natural Art Outside - Lesson
WEB SITES: 
ArtNet on Goldsworthy - http://www.artnet.com/artist/7145/Goldsworthy_And y.htm
Cass Sculpture Foundation (UK) on Goldsworthy - http://www.sculpture.org.uk/artists/AndyGoldswort hy
Earthworks.org - http://www.earthworks.org Center for Global Environment Education – http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_and y.html
Eyestorm on Goldsworthy - http://www.eyestorm.com/feature/ED2n_article.asp? article_id=28&artist_id=90
Jim Denevan - http://www.jimdenevan.com
Chris Drury - http://www.chrisdrury.co.uk
Robert Smithson (run by the John Weber Gallery) - http://www.robertsmithson.com
21st Century British Sculpture - http://www.sculpture.org.uk, includes pages on Goldsworthy
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/index.html.en
Tate Gallery – Web pages dedicated to land art - http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definitio n.jsp?entryId=151
Land and environmental art Web pages on Artists.org - http://www.theartists.org/MovementView.cfm?id=3E8DA10D-FCCE4975-A80DA11B65BC4257 National Gallery of Art - http://www.nga.gov/press/2004/releases/fall/goldswo rthy.shtm includes Goldsworthy’s installation
Stanford University - http://ccva.stanford.edu/Goldsworthy.html includes Goldsworthy’s installation
Museum of Jewish Heritage - http://www.mjhnyc.org/visit_gardenofstones.htm includes Goldsworthy’s installation