1. After watching the vide of the case of land art assignment, define land art in your own words.
2. What is the difference between sites like Stonehenge or the Great Pyramids and Land Art?
3. For Robert Smithson, what is site and nonsite art?
4. What was the ultimate goal of land artists? Why did they choose to work in nature with a landscape?
5. Do you think land art is a kind of sculpture? Or is it its own thing? Explain your answer.
6. How does Land art, which arose in the 60s and 70s, relate to the socio-political environment at the time?
Next, watch the following video on Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty”:
after watching the video:
1. How does the location, the Great Salt Lake, for Spiral Jetty affect the artwork itself?
2. Spiral Jetty’s monumental scale and natural form recall the earthworks of what culture/time period?
3. Does Spiral Jetty continue to change, even today? Is this intentional? Why or why not?
Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, 1979-2005, Christo and Jeanne-Claude
In the end the show took about six weeks to install and The Gates came down the day after the exhibition ended, with most of the materials headed for recycling. The artists maintain a thorough archive of their work on their website; along with projects that never materialized (including several for New York City) and current projects (not surprisingly these are decades in the making). With Jeanne-Claudes passing in 2009, this archive of the past, present, and future is poignant in its meticulous documentation and optimismevidence of the duos perseverance and monumental dreams.
Essay by Doris Bravo
Answer the following question:
1. The Gates remains a complex testament to two controversial topics in contemporary art: how to create meaningful public art and how art responds to and impacts our relationship with the built environment. How exactly does The Gates project represent both of these ideas? Be specific with your answer.
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