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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.
A Sculptor from Hong Kong, Johnson Tsang, is mesmerizing people with his ability to capture realistic emotions mixed with surrealism. Over 20 years ago, the artist introduced expressive forms that ...
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.
Alberto Giacometti (/ ˌ dʒ æ k ə ˈ m ɛ t i /, [1] US also / ˌ dʒ ɑː k-/, [2] [3] [4] Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family ...
The sculptor had no idea of its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will finally return to it. [6] The boulder was last seen in 2015. [7] Nash also makes sculptures which stay in the landscape. For example, Ash Dome is a ring of ash trees he planted in 1977 [8] and trained to form a domed shape.
Claes Oldenburg was born on January 28, 1929, in Stockholm, [3] the son of Gösta Oldenburg [4] and his wife Sigrid Elisabeth née Lindforss. [5] His father was then a Swedish diplomat stationed in New York and in 1936 was appointed consul general of Sweden to Chicago where Oldenburg grew up, attending the Latin School of Chicago.
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 ...
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.