Andy Goldsworthy Practice: His work is ephemeral- not going to last forever. Because is artwork doesn’t last‚ the videos/ photos become the artwork. Through the making of his artwork‚ he learns about nature It is always straight to work- no time for research on the area he is in. He has been taking photographs since school- it is the way that he documents his artwork It is his way of reflecting on what he has make He doesn’t have a clear picture of what it is he is going to make- he goes
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Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy is able to create something aesthetically pleasing or conceptually pleasing out of absolutely nothing. He takes what he can from the land and produces sculptures by melting ice together‚ collecting wood or piling rocks in unique ways. Andy Goldsworthy creates his art using his bare hands alone‚ and while the art is still standing‚ he creates his own significant places. His art would often erode or collapse but for the brief time they are standing‚ his creations
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Contemporary (Post Modern) Frame Andy Goldsworthy’s art pieces are presented and created in the natural environment using natural resources only taken from the environment. Wood‚ stone‚ leaves and flowers are some examples of the materials he uses. His artworks have features that relate to Post Modernism. His artworks can be viewed from different viewpoints and distances and can be experienced with more than just sight but with touch as well. Goldsworthy’s main feature that can be related to Post
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Andy Goldsworthy Case Study Andy Goldsworthy is a famous British sculptor whose influences come primarily from the environment around him and the way society interacts with nature. His work is constructed solely from objects found in the environment he is working in the aim of the work itself to become a part of the environment around it‚ interacting with it in a way that makes it seem entirely out of place yet still in sync with what is around it. His own influences and connections to nature
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The three artists that we have studied‚ Goldsworthy‚ Gascoigne and Wolseley‚ are all contemporary environmental artists. They all have their own unique practice and all of these artists are concerned with the environment hence all of their works are environmentally friendly. Their works all challenge the viewers imagination and are aesthetically pleasing. John Wolseley-Practice-Wolseleys interaction with Aboriginal people has helped him to increase his knowledge of the land and increase his respect
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Andy Goldsworthy Born in 1956 in Cheshire. Goldswothy’s father worked as a mathematics professor at the University of Leeds‚ it was in Leeds that he held a job as a farmer and it was then that he noticed the landscapes and picked up his passion for art. It was in his teen years that his fascination for the earth and it’s riches spurred. In 1974‚ Goldsworthy entered Bradford College of Art‚ and continued his studies in art at Preston Polytechnic. In his three years there he worked in the indoor studio
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Andy Goldsworthy‚ OBE (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor‚ photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland. The son of F. Allin Goldsworthy (1929–2001)‚ former professor of applied mathematics at the University of Leeds‚ Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire[1] and grew up on the Harrogate side of Leeds‚ West Yorkshire‚ in a house edging the green belt. From the age of 13 he worked on farms
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In the movie Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy‚ the artist starts out by creating a master piece made from nothing but objects found in nature. I love the way he used a pool of water as a canvas and used different brightly colored leaves as his paint. The composition of the leaves makes it appear like a bright wave of the color fall. He arranged them in such a way that the colors blended together to create one piece‚ giving it the optical mixing effect. His medium of art is the natural surrounding
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concepts. Andy Goldsworthy respectively creates his art as this. Andy Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire‚ Scotland‚ in the year 1956. He is a British sculptor and photographer living in Scotland with his wife and children. Goldsworthy has traveled and created works of art out NATURAL materials. Through the art practice analysis there are 6 main keys. ● ● ● ● ● ● conceptual practice material practice processes nature of practice Influences workspace / environment Andy Goldsworthy
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Final Paper May 1‚ 2012 Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy was born in 1956 in Cheshire England. He was raised in Yorkshire England and attended both Bradford and Lancaster art college from 1974-1978("Andy Goldsworthy - Biography"). I was first introduced to this artist in class the other day when we watched his video “Rivers and Tides”. During the opening scene of the video Goldsworthy discussed a very unique obsession with the shape of winding rivers. The way that he talked about these rivers
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