Andy Goldsworthy

phing them. [/color][/font] fyodor_fish fyodor_fish ½March 25, 2014 [I]Andy Goldsworthy ? Rivers and Tides: Working with Time[/I], winner of the Golden Gate Award, Grand Prize For Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival, follows Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy engaging in the creation of ephemeral sculptures from natural, preexisting materials in England, Scotland, Japan, Australia, North America, and even the North Pole. For Goldsworthy, art isn't static, frozen in time, but instead, dictated by changing weather and light patterns, and most importantly, the passage of time. In Thomas Riedelsheimer, the director and cinematographer behind [i]Rivers and Tides[/i], and in Fred Frith, the documentary's composer…

I saw this feeling of connection to things around us when we watched the film on Andy Goldsworthy. In the film Goldsworthy spends hours creating intricate structures in nature only to have them destroyed by natural causes. He is helping show us that we can change the world, but what we change can always be changed by something else in the world. For example we can build dams as humans but the water can weather them down and destroy them. Showing that all things in the world are on an equal level…

The “environmental sculptor”, Andy Goldsworthy, was born in 1956 in England and began his work in the 1970’s (Hurley). He works closely with an environment and uses only the materials available there to create his art. To document his work, he takes photographs before the sculpture is transformed by natural processes such as wind or water. He also writes a short poem about each piece to describe its construction in place of a title. The photographs utilize the surrounding environment and they…

In the passage “Sculpting Earth Art”, Earth Artist, Andy Goldsworthy, would work outside and only use materials that he could find nearby. Andy Goldsworthy would use his own spit to paste leaves to rocks and even use thorns to pin dried stalks together. Sometimes Goldsworthy would get rained on and even snowed on purposefully. One piece of art Andy Goldsworthy made was called a “rain shadow”. To make this art he would lie down in the grass before it was about to rain. After he was soaked, he…

held equal amazement to the cave man staring from his protective cliff cave, as to the child walking into a modern ski lodge. Some modern artists have the ability to connect the wonders of shape and form with the ever present backdrop of Mother Nature. Stacy Levy and Andy Goldsworthy represent just such artists, as both connect an understanding of science…

similar views. Metamorphosis by Kafka, the Metamorphosis graphic novel by Kuper, and the short film Rivers and Tides narrated by Goldsworthy all mostly demonstrated negative changes. Once Gregor makes his tragic transformation into a cockroach, one of the biggest changes he suffers is that of his voice. "As if from deep inside him,…

In diverse manners, artists often successfully reflect, and display the impact and relationship humans have with the environment. This allows for society and the general population to further explore and understand their place within both the natural and unnatural world. Artists such as Jill Orr, Lin Onus and Andy Goldsworthy successfully reciprocate this by responding to the physical environment- and situations they are positioned in- through their creations of thought provoking art. These…

Tyler Hicks was born on 9th July 1969. He did his schooling from Staples High School in 1988 and also went to Boston University's College of Communication. He earned a degree in Journalism from Boston University in 1992. He works as a staff photographer at The New York Times. He is basically an American photojournalist, but he was established in Kenya. Hicks was a freelance photographer before established in Africa and operated for newspapers in North Carolina and Ohio as well. He has also…

In the late period, “The 1990s constituted a very productive period for Hockney, with a huge number of retrospectives and exhibitions around the world” (David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012). Specially, “Hockney arranged Polaroids as well as 35-mm prints to create photo-collages of a single subject” (web). “In 1999, a long-standing and well known fascination with new media led Hockney to his controversial suspicions” (David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012). Along these lines, "subsequent to…

The painting Coup d’Oeil, a French phrase meaning “Speed of Light,” was created by James Rosenquist. Rosenquist is a pop artist, creating many large, bright, and extravagant pieces. He is seen as a protagonist in the pop-art movement, alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Similar to Warhol and Lichtenstein, Rosenquist uses bright colors in his pop art to create bold statements throughout all of his works. Coup d’Oeil was painted by Rosenquist using oils in 2001. The beauty of a…