Robert Smithson Robert Smithson is best known as a pioneer of the Earthworks movement. However his involvement in the development of Earthworks is only one of his many contributions to postwar American art. His most popular concepts he innovated was a “site,” which is a place in the world where art is inseparable from its context. In addition to large-scale land interventions, Smithson’s artistic practice also includes photography, painting, film, and language. Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1938. He was an only child. His father, Irving Smithson, was an automobile mechanic who later became vice-president of a mortgage firm. His father and mother, Susan, were both Protestants and Susan was also Catholic. When Smithson was eight his parents took him on his first major trip, a tour around the United States. The trip made a huge impression on him and he began to love traveling. Some of his other interests as a child were drawing, collecting things, natural history, geology, and dinosaurs according to Smithson, in an interview with Paul Cummings in 1972. Like many teenagers, Smithson found high school boring and was in search of a more stimulating and open environment. In the fall of 1954, his third year of high school, Smithson enrolled in classes at the Art Students League in New York. He received a scholarship for the1955-56 academic year. Smithson’s training at the Art Students League focused on basic foundation courses such as cartooning, life drawing, painting, and composition. Of his time at the Art Students League, Smithson said, “it gave me an opportunity to meet younger people and others who were sort of sympathetic to my outlook.” 1(pg.12). As he got older, Smithson began investigating the negative... ... middle of paper ... ... Hans Haacke, and Michael Heizer. Before Smithson became history in the art world, artists had hoped to immortalize themselves by creating works that would outlast the span of human life. Even though most of his works were intended to be consumed by time and nature, which made them have a infinite life span, Smithson wanted the exact opposite. His entrance into wastelands and places where no socialization existed were attempts to show how fragile nature is in the industrial world and its powerful ability to defend itself against harmful things. Works Cited 1. Smithson, Robert, Eugenie Tsai, Cornelia H. Butler, Thomas E. Crow, and Alexander Alberro. Robert Smithson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Web. 15 Nov. 2011 2. Smithson, Robert. http://www.robertsmithson.com/index_.htm. Ed. Elyse Goldberg and Monika Sziladi. N.p., 2004. Web. 15 Nov. 2011.
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John Smith is one of the most famous people in American literature history. He was a dedicated man to his country of England, and wanted nothing more than to claim America in the name of the king. During his adventures to the new land he encountered many new things and people including a young Native American woman named Pocahontas. He also wrote many journals enticing people to want to come to America. This shall tell you the story of John Smith from his journeys as a young man all the way to when he finally came to America, and how his writings still influence people to immigrate to America still today.
Robert Johnson I went down to the crossroads fell down on my knees. Robert Johnson went to the crossroads and his life was never the same again. The purpose of this essay is to tell you about the life of Robert Johnson. He is the root of much of the music of today. If he didn't influence the musicians of today directly, he influenced the bands that influenced today's music.
As an adventurous English boy, John Smith longed to see the world, but he probably never imagined that he'd become famous for helping settle a new colony. John Smith belongs in History because he is the one who helped Jamestown get food and helped organize and run the colony. John Smith, English explorer and colonist, was an important leader and has changed America.
proclaims that "Goldsworthy, whose self-professed ambition is to utilize nature's inherent energy, succeeds in making its forces visible." There are many ways to understand the work of Andy Goldsworthy and contemporary ecological art.
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Exploring the dialectic relationship between environments –both built and natural—and the figures that occupy those spaces, “Vernacular Environments, Part 1” brings to light the complexities and temporality of the vernacular. Ranging in works from the 1960s through present day, a 32-minute film of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) serves as the show’s departure point, illustrating the construction of Smithson’s earthwork as a conditional art relying on time and space for its existence, continually vanishing and resurfacing as the Utah lake’s tide rises and falls.
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Mark Rothko is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and during his lifetime was touted as a leading figure in postwar American painting. He is one of the outstanding figures of Abstract Expressionism and one of the creators of Color Field Painting. As a result of his contribution of great talent and the ability to deliver exceptional works on canvas one of his final projects, the Rothko Chapel offered to him by Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, would ultimately anchor his name in the art world and in history. Without any one of the three, the man, the work on canvas, or the dream, the Rothko Chapel would never have been able to exist for the conceptualization of the artist, the creations on canvas and the architectural dynamics are what make the Rothko Chapel a product of brilliance.
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Art serves the purpose of transmitting ideas about our lives and environment - forcing people to think about different aspects of our lives. Artist Andy Goldsworthy has a very specific style, creating mostly temporary art using nature as both his materials and his setting. His works range from gold leaf covered rocks to a photo of him throwing a string of kelp into the sky for it to contort into some seemingly random shape. This paper, however, will discuss Goldsworthy 's work “Sycamore Leaves Edging the Roots of a Sycamore Tree” which shows the base of a tree lined with a yellow gradient fading into the ground made from the leaves of the very tree it surrounds. Through this work,
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