In her seminal work «Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule» (1983),
earth art pioneer Agnes Denes takes art out of the «machinery of the art world» and plants it in nature.
Not exact matches
As in the works of Hilma af Klint, one of the
pioneers of spiritual abstraction,
art becomes a tool for connecting with something greater than the meagre life on
earth; a dimension of spirituality, a gateway towards cosmos and a preparation for the unavoidable - death and possible afterlife.
As a
pioneer of environmental
art, Planet
Earth is his medium, and his creations reflect his profound connection to nature, landscape and geology.
One of the most restless and innovative of the group, Oppenheim transplanted himself from the Bay Area to New York in 1966 to become a
pioneer of
Earth, Body, Conceptual, installation, and video
art.
Pioneers of this artform, many of whom participated in a major «
Earth Art» exhibition at Cornell University's Andrew Dickson White Museum of
Art, included Robert Smithson (1938 - 73), his wife Nancy Holt (b. 1938), Walter De Maria (b. 1935), Agnes Denes (b. 1938), Dennis Oppenheim (b. 1938), Alice Aycock (b. 1946), James Turrell (b. 1943), Michael Heizer (b. 1944), and the husband / wife team Christo & Jeanne - Claude (1935 - 2009).