#land art
“Sculpture for the Earth” (“Rzeźba dla Ziemi”) by Polish artist and performer Teresa Murak, created in 1974 in Ubbaboda, Sweden.
Creating the sculpture took the artist 30 days, and she used her own height as the radius for measurements. The mound was a mirrored image of the hemisphere dug from the ground, meant to represent forces of earth and sky complementing each other. After shaping the hemispheres, she grassed both convex and concave surfaces over. Just after a few days, when the green sprouts started growing, the sculpture was destroyed with bulldozers against the artist’s will, under a pretext of a lack of building permit. Teresa Murak was among the first artists in Europe who engaged in land art.
Image sources: Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi,Pismo Widok
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Beautiful land art installations by Ireland-based artist Gerry Barry
Gerry Barry has been making installations on poetic landscapes across the Irish countryside. Barry’s installations often feature simple shapes, primarily the circle. Water is a key element of his creations and his ephemeral artworks are meant to coexist with the elements of nature.
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STAFFORDSHIRES AT ST. QUENTIN CANAL: 1918.
ST. QUENTIN CANAL1st October 1918: Brigadier-General J.V. Campbell (on the bridge) congratulates soldiers of the 46th (North Midland) Division at Riqueval after their successful crossing of the St. Quentin Canal. Some men still wear their lifejackets and carry German helmets as souvenirs.
(Photo by PA Images via Getty Images)
