Andy Goldsworthy Mother Nature

Both artists, Maya Lin and Andy Goldsworthy, use nature to express their feelings through art. Goldsworthy uses nature more in a temporary art setting. The sculptures he creates are all from objects surrounding his project. Whether it is made of rocks, leafs, branches, ice sickles, and many other surrounding objects. Maya Lin on the other hand brings in all the materials that she uses on her sculptures. Lin strives to show the way nature or a piece of land once was and how important it was to the tribes that lived off the land. Lin has also done a lot of memorials such as the veteran’s memorial in Washington D.C. and she also did a statue or table for Yale University showing the amount of women that have gone to Yale over the years.

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist that creates pleasing sculptures entirely out of things he finds in nature such

The world has several great poets and many mind-blowing works, each with its own way of portraying its own message and some the same ones. Jane Flanders wrote the poem named “Cloud Painter” she shows the world from an artistic way, using a painter and his canvas to help the reader picture the true meaning behind the words and images created. Robert Frost takes on the same idea but uses a less complex example so that it makes his work easy to understand while not revealing the real meaning of the poem. Frost and Flanders are just two of the many poets that use nature as a way of explaining the very lessons in life. Each poet has a different way of presenting similar images but from a different perspective.

The beautiful blossoms that bloom in Californian spring, the summer daisies alongside the cooling lake, long after the summer the trees have lost their leaves entering autumn to fresh white snow out in the mountains. Nature is able to show us its true beauty without any falseness and modifications. After all, is it not ironic how people go to museums to look at paintings of colorful flowers, green hills, and clear water streams; those are beauties that can easily be observed in real life outside of the urban environment which are surrounded by them, or how people buy recordings of the calming sounds of nature, similar to what you would listen to at night in the woods or smell nature aromas of the candles. What we are doing is trying to mislead our minds and pretend to think that we are in the woods but are instead cornered inside our small, well-furnished, and full -with-technology apartment.

My artist, Thomas Cole, depicts nature in different settings to reflect the different events occurring around the globe. In many of his most famous paintings, he depicts nature being controlled by civilization. Thomas Cole uses these paintings to show that nature needs to be preserved because at this time in history, lots of deforestation was occurring to expand civilization. This is one of the many reasons that preserving nature is one of the foundations of the transcendentalist movement. Often times, religious beliefs, political beliefs, and social beliefs are shown through drawings, novels, essays, and

According to Goldsworthy also stated on his 1990 webpage named “Philosophy”, “For me, looking, touching, materials, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season” (Goldsworthy 1). There is a striking energy found in nature and Goldsworthy is a master at using line, colour and shape to help magnify this so called power. His artwork has been made in a new and innovative manner as time and the notion of being temporary have been incorporated. These are aspects of life that the environment and every human have in common. Time links all life; Goldsworthy’s unique sculptures help reinforce the importance of understanding the reality of birth, life, death and rebirth. His art is short-lived, and he captures every moment of his art’s changing and gradual demise for all his works depict their transformation due to the changing world around them. For example in the case of “Ice Spiral” (figure 3) and all of his other works, Goldsworthy takes pictures of the sculptures’ gradual destructions. When looking at Goldsworthy's work, it is easy to question the role photography plays in its documentation. The camera is crucial for Goldsworthy. His art is fragile, transient, and inaccessible. Therefore, the photograph becomes a means for the artist to make his work accessible to a wide viewing public. Through photographs, the viewer sees his work from a limited point of view. The artist is able, through the camera, to manipulate colour, light effects, and perspective. The work is taken out of its natural surroundings and the fleeting moments and randomness of nature are removed via its mechanical (re)production. Goldsworthy essentially challenges the conventional meaning of art and traditional views of what art is. Besides creating aesthetically

There are many things in life that can distract us from the beauty that the world around us contains, the famous quote by Walter Hagen, “Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses” defines this perfectly. Society is easily distracted from beauty by things that are fake and provide us temporary happiness for long enough that we briefly forget about our issues in life. “Be the change you see in the world” another saying that is taken quite literally by two artists who mainly help to focus on the problem stated above. One, by the name of James Ostrer, uses a tactic that tries to use fear to resort people back to natural objects. The other, Andy Goldsworthy, using a more mellow and aesthetic way.

Eco and performance art have gone through many changes in the past 40 years one of the people who has been a big part of that change has been Bonnie Sherk. Her evolution through art is inspiring and shows that art can help heal the earth as well as humans.

There are two phenomenal photographers that have inspired me and my desire to learn more about photography and to become an environmental photographer. The two professional photographer are Ansel Easton Adams and Mary Ellen Mark. One photographer who inspires me is Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams was considered to be an environmental photographer. Adams was born in San Francisco, California. His family migrated to California from England. His grandfather started a lumber business to help make ends meet. Ironically later in his life Adams would condemn the lumber industry for depleting the red wood forest in California. He was an only child and spent countless hours leaning astronomy from his father. His father bought him a three inch telescope

Nature! Mother Nature! So ancient, yet so fresh; so marvel, yet so novel! A deep connection between beauty and civilization! It is my universe, it is my life. From birth to death, Mother Nature cradles me in her bosom. She is always in my mind. She is so dear. Nature is my Teacher.

    Charlotte Bronte makes extensive use of nature imagery in her novel, Jane Eyre, commenting on both the human relationship with the outdoors and with human nature. The Oxford Reference Dictionary defines "nature" as "1. the phenomena of the physical world as a whole . . . 2. a thing's essential qualities; a person's or animal's innate character . . . 4. vital force, functions, or needs." Bronte speaks to each of these definitions throughout Jane Eyre.

Not much has been written about the use of expressive arts in existential practice. “Pat Allen, one of the founders of the open studio approach to art therapy… decided to experiment with having people make art alongside each other and be of service to each other during the process, hence the Open Studio Approach” (Story, 2007). This approach is based upon three elements; intention, attention and witness (Story, 2007).

Abstract Expressionism is making its comeback within the art world. Coined as an artist movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s, at the New York School, American Abstract Expressionist began to express many ideas relevant to humanity and the world around human civilization. However, the subject matters, contributing to artists, were not meant to represent the ever-changing world around them. Rather, how the world around them affected the artist themselves. The works swayed by such worldly influences, become an important article within the artists’ pieces. Subjectively, looking inward to express the artist psyche, artists within the Abstract Expressionism movement became a part of their paintings. Making the paintings more of a representation

Surrealism is not the only movement that influences expressive arts therapy. Other movements have made important contributions to both the philosophical foundations of art in psychology and the development of expressive arts therapy as a formal discipline. Wassaly Kadinsky, a German abstract expressionist, explored color, shape, and form as an expression of spirituality. He developed theories regarding the nature of art and the role of the artist as a “prophet”. His theories are based on inner experiences and art as the soul of nature and humanity. Joseph Beuys explored the role of artist as shaman. In his performance art, like How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, he chose materials and actions for their symbolic value and manipulated them to affect the viewer. Spontaneous creativity is the focus of the beat generation. Writers, like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, worked

In Nature & Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics, Allen Carlson proposes that scientific knowledge can enhance our aesthetic appreciation of the natural world. He draws a connection between technical know-how used in the context of natural landscapes and art history or criticism in the context of conventional art forms. In either case, the viewer would find relatively more meaningful experiences of aesthetic appreciation than if one looked at a painting or landscape without any prior knowledge about it. Carlson endorses this point within his larger Natural Environmental Model, which asserts that though the environment is not entirely of our creation, it does not mean that we have to approach it without any prior understanding.