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Ivan Meštrović (Croatian: [ǐʋan mɛ̂ʃtrɔʋit͡ɕ] ⓘ; 15 August 1883 – 16 January 1962) was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor, architect, and writer. He was the most prominent modern Croatian sculptor and a leading artistic personality in contemporary Zagreb.
Nancy Graves (December 23, 1939 – October 21, 1995) was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon.
For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 [8] and trained to form a domed shape. Ash Dome - Living Sculpture by David Nash photographed in July 2009 The dome is sited at a secret location somewhere in Snowdonia and whenever it is filmed, crews are taken there by a circuitous route to guard its security.
Michael Heizer (born 1944) is an American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. [1] Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process.
Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, [1] largely associated with Great Britain and the United States [2] [3] [4] but that also includes examples from many countries. As a trend, "land art" expanded boundaries of art by the materials used and the siting ...
Delta Sculptoris (δ Scl, δ Sculptoris) is a triple star system [9] in the constellation Sculptor.It is approximately 137.4 light years from Earth. [1]The primary component, Delta Sculptoris A, is a white A-type main sequence dwarf [3] with an apparent magnitude of +4.59.
Chris Booth (born 30 December 1948) is a New Zealand sculptor and practitioner of large-scale land art. [citation needed] [1]He has participated in numerous land art projects and exhibitions internationally and created significant public sculpture commissions in NZ, Australia, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Italy, Denmark, France and Canada.
Stanisław Szukalski (13 December 1893 – 19 May 1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. [1] Szukalski's art appears to show influences from ancient cultures, Egypt, Slavs, and Aztecs combined with elements of art nouveau and other currents of early 20th century European modernism - cubism, expressionism, futurism.