Earth Art

Name: Earth Art
Rating: 4.2 (11 reviews)

A Contemporary Art Course

Created byFederico von Borstel

Last updated 9/2023

English

What you'll learn

The purpose of this course is to expand the students notions of art and provide the ability to see and appreciate art in the Earth that surrounds us.
The course enhances human development.
Increased appreciation of Art
The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 1h 18m total length

Introduction1:36
Explore earth art as a concept and practice across antiquity and cultures. Examine the pioneers of contemporary earth art—Smithson, Christo, Goldsworthy, Damory, Heiser, Taranto, Nash—and complete an earth art project.
Earth Art Lecture 28:20
Observe earth as artist, generating three-dimensional forms through addition, subtraction, substitution, and combinations; water, gravity, wind carve canyons and deposit minerals, while sun and life sculpt dynamic landscapes.
Earth Art Lecture 35:52
Examine earth art from antiquity, where large-scale human-made landscapes—from chalk hills in southern England to monumental figures like the sphinx—emerge from the earth itself.
Earth Art Lecture 46:26
Explores earth art across cultures, landscape and belief, highlighting Pueblo, Navaho, Tibetan sand mandalas, Aboriginal sand art, and Japanese meditation gardens with drawing, sand filling, and ritual meaning.
Earth Art Lecture 52:15
Engage in a two-part earth art project that cleans or improves a site and documents before-and-after progress with photos. Document design concept, site selection, execution, cleanup, and restoring the site.
Earth Art Lecture 68:19
Explore earth art through Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and related works, analyzing proportion, scale, point of observation, and how mud, salt, and rock shape surrounding water and land.
Earth Art Lecture 79:34
The lecture surveys Christo and his wife’s earth art projects, including the gates in Central Park and running fence, highlighting large-scale, immersive experiences and environmental considerations.
Earth Art Lecture 86:31
Discover Andy Goldsworthy's earth art through found natural materials like snow, leaves, and twigs. Go outdoors, arrange items, and photograph from different angles to notice beauty in nature.
Earth Art Lecture 95:28
Examine Walter Dear Maria's lightning field, a mile by one kilometer stainless steel pole installation that channels atmospheric charge to the earth and prompts ecological critique.
Earth Art Lecture 106:53
Explore land art through Michael Heiser's bulldozed gashes and related works, examining how form, secrecy, and landscape shape contemporary art's engagement with the earth.
Earth Art Lecture 114:25
Explore James Terell's use of projectors to shape light forms, from diffuse to concentrated, with pyramid-like corner installations, while preserving natural phenomena like the Rugen crater and resisting ego-driven digging.
Earth Art Lecture 123:02
Explore how David Nash uses wood and fire to create earth art. A wooden boulder journeys rivers and reappears after years, embodying Nash's free-range, material-led approach.
Course Catalog9:23
Earth art course catalog highlights the caption's rhythm of and so, this, and so, offering a concise, caption-based entry for learners.

Requirements

This Earth Art course is for anyone with an interest and curiosity about Art and Contemporary Art in particular.

Description

This is a course on Earth Art. We focus primarily on the pioneers of Earth Art as a Contemporary Art movement. However, we study Earth as an Artist, in fact, the greatest of the Earth Artists. Next, we see Earth Art from antiquity, and Contemporary Earth Art across cultures. The objective of this course is to expand your horizon of art and that you develop a better appreciation for the art that exists all around us. And, that you contribute to the cleanliness and preservation of that Earth as art. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

This Earth Art course is for anyone interested in Art and particularly in Contemporary Art.