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His best known piece, and probably the most famous piece of all land art, is the Spiral Jetty (1970), for which Smithson arranged rock, earth and algae so as to form a long (1500 ft) spiral-shape jetty protruding into Great Salt Lake in northern Utah, U.S. How much of the work, if any, is visible is dependent on the fluctuating water levels.
In September 1968, Smithson published the essay "A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects" in Artforum that promoted the work of the first wave of land art artists, and in 1969 he began producing land art pieces to further explore concepts gained from his readings of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and George Kubler. [9]
Spiral Jetty is a work of land art constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work by American sculptor Robert Smithson.Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
Robert Morris (February 9, 1931 – November 28, 2018) was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism [1] along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. [2]
Museum of Modern Art New York: Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich [63] $145.6 $107.5 L’Homme assis au verre: Pablo Picasso: 1914 May 2011: Yves Bouvier [note 14] Dmitry Rybolovlev: Private sale via Yves Bouvier [64] [65] $139.3 $139.3 Femme à la montre: Pablo Picasso: 1932 November 9, 2023: Emily Fisher Landau's estate Anonymous ...
“Many of the pieces … all have long histories of exchanging ownership, whether originating from a private sale or a deal within a family estate collection, e.g. famous collections like the ...
Bramme for the Ruhr-District, 1998 at Essen Sea Level (South-west part), Zeewolde, Netherlands. Richard Serra (November 2, 1938 – March 26, 2024) was an American artist known for his large-scale abstract sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings, and whose work has been primarily associated with Postminimalism.
The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is one of the oldest known pieces of rock art on Earth with a confirmed date.