Considered the master of Land Art, Andy Goldsworthy worked for decades in his native U.K., creating delicate and painstaking natural installations. The materials used come from the ground, and his artworks lasted just long enough to capture on film, and then immediately began returning to their natural state.
This fleeting, temporary work is surprisingly robust in the world of art, however. There’s a hunger for this type of sculptural, earth-first creation, and while many artists work in a similar vein as Goldsworthy, his pieces remain just as relevant and intriguing today.
Below are a few of our favorites.
[…] Andy Goldsworthy is a fascinating British artist who does poetic and beautiful nature art. His work is fleeting, most of it lasting just mere minutes before being washed or blown away. We’ve posted about him before, and his work lingers in the mind far longer than it lasts in nature. Some of his work melts, some of it is so fragile that it probably lasts just until the camera shutter clicks. Unfortunately his creations are often poorly photographed, and searches for him return low resolution, muddy images, which clearly do not do his work justice. The bulk of his fleeting nature work was done in the 70’s and 80’s in his native England, although more permanent installation have been recently made in prestigious museums like The National Museum of Scotland, The DeYoung, The National Gallery of Art, and many others. […]