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Distance from Earth Magnitude Group Membership ... between LG and Sculptor Group: Forms pair with NGC 300 70,000 ly 123 KKs 3: ... 2.24 [57] −12.47 [57]
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.
Looking north toward the entrance to the Star Tunnel, a stairway exactly parallel to Earth's axis; earth, sandstone, granite, concrete, bronze, stainless steel; 11 stories high, 1/10th mile across; (1971–in progress). Charles Ross (born 1937) is an American contemporary artist known for work centered on natural light, time and planetary motion.
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 ...
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.
It is the brightest of the five main spirals in the direction of the Sculptor Group. [2] It is inclined at an angle of 42° when viewed from Earth and shares many characteristics of the Triangulum Galaxy. [6] It is 94,000 light-years in diameter, somewhat smaller than the Milky Way, and has an estimated mass of (2.9 ± 0.2) × 10 10 M ☉. [3] [7]
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.