The Conflicts Between Seeing Nature As A Medium Of Art

‘The sheer popularity’ of stimulating nature or using nature as ad space ‘demands that we acknowledge, even respect, their cultural importance,’ suggests Richtel. Culturally important, yes. But the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of ‘true’ nature— the certainty that it’s not even worth looking at. (Louv lines 9-19)

Using nature is a way of creating art this is beautiful. Andy Goldsworthy, and earth artist, lived by one simple rule for his style of art. He would work outside and only use materials he could find nearby. (Hulick 7) Andy Goldsworthy made

The aim and intentions of this essay is to compare and contrast how the three artists (Michelle Lougee, Andy Goldsworthy, and Hermannsburg Potters) use their materials to communicate ideas about the natural environment.

What is nature? Nature is a force that controls us. We are born with natural talents that

Goals and Objectives: To explore works of art which seek to imitate, admire, or judge the world around us. That world consists of animals and plants as well as human constructs: our knowledge systems our technology, and our cities.

1, To have genuine ideas to express; 2, to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; 3, to [sympathize] with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and 4, and most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated the inherent bond that exists between ourselves and Nature. During the eighteenth century, known also as “the Reformation” period, there was a push in European society towards science and reason being the epicenter of culture. During this time, Alexander Pope wrote the poem ‘Essay on Man’ which was intended to be an outline of perennial, universal truths. The emphasis was primarily on the nature of reason rather than Nature itself. After this time period came the Romantic period, lasting from 1785-1832. It was in 1818 that Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein’, also known as ‘The Modern Prometheus’, an imaginative tale about a monster created by man. The relationships between Nature and the characters are dynamic in that they change frequently. They appear, in many instances, to be a vehicle for expressing emotion. By examining and writing about the way humans interact with the Nature surrounding them, Pope and Shelley made it possible to analyze and highlight common relationships between humans and Nature during their lifetime; for Pope and his peers, it was more about reason and ___ (word for only coming to conclusions based on ur five senses), while during Shelley’s time period, people tended to have a more emotional relationship with Nature.

The Natural World theme of art involves the artist concentrating on the natural surrounding on a piece of work. This theme aids in bring taste to a piece of art work due to the fact that the natural surround is what surrounds every human beings and thus captures the reality aspect of the viewer. A piece of work that has an artificial surrounding is much different from the same type of art that has the natural surroundings. This is due to the fact that there is a large connection between the natural world and the human being.

Nature is a reality of life. The definition of reality could be everything that cease to exist in an individual’s life. Because reality means something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily, nature should be a part of every individual’s life. As individual human beings, we tend to forget the beauty that nature has given us and only see objects and subjects we want to see. Nature has existed since the beginning of time and the bible story of Adam and Eve may suggest that an individual came from nature. In the Genesis 2:7, Adam was created by God from the Earth’s dust and Eve was created from Adam’s rib. An individual should be able to connect with nature, because the individual was first created by Earth’s dust.

In this defining work, the nature

Western art for many years regarded nature as a thing created for man’s welfare. The West had the tendency to classify, rank and

Using natural phenomenon as a starting point for abstraction, Mark Grotjahn’s paintings straddle the polarities of artifice and nature. His painting, Lavender Butterfly Jacaranda over Green (Fig. 2), expresses his fascination with nature. Transferring the experience of observation to an intrigue of creative possibility, Grotjahn harnesses the mysticism of nature through aesthetic formality.

For many years, artists have been documenting the beauty of the natural world surrounding them, but few have used the materials given them by nature to create a work of art. Andy Goldsworthy is a sculptor and photographer who creates art out of almost any natural material that the earth provides including ice, snow, sticks, leaves, rocks, sand, clay, etc. A majority of Goldsworthy’s sculptures are ephemeral, resulting in Goldsworthy’s use of photographs as a way to document all of his art. His “approach to the photograph is kept simple, almost routine. All work, good and bad, is documented.

Nature as w e know it means different things to different people. To an economist, natural is often seen as a resource to be transformed and put in readiness for human use. An alternative view is that humans are stewards who should care for natural things as well as making use of nature’s bounty. Another view is that nature of animism, which sees nature as a living thing, something to be respected and not controlled. Some native American’s view the earth as a sacred place could be called animist. Another alternative view is that the entire planet earth is a self correcting system based on a symbiotic relationship between the earth and the living beings(Peacock,

All over the world, art is used to represent many things, especially the artist's imagination