Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental artist who is mainly concerned with the natural world. His artworks can be analyzed through the Postmodern Frame; he uses natural and found materials such as leaves, sticks, rocks and spit to form his sculptures and challenges the notion of the art object as permanent and valuable. He also documents his works through photography, a non-traditional art medium, due to their transitory nature. He intends to amuse the audience and question their use of the environment. One of his artworks, "Midsummer Snowballs" (2000), consists of thirteen oversize snowball sculptures formed out of concealed pieces of natural materials, including river pebbles, ears of barley and feathers.
Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes. Momaday uses words and phrases such as "loneliness is an aspect of the land," "all things in the plain are isolate," "to look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion," "imagination comes to life," and "creation was begun." Momaday's use of words show the sacredness of the land. They also signify that the land is of important value to him on a spiritual level. On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving."
Balboa ascends slowly. His musket is heavy and he would have gladly left it down below, but he doesn’t trust his countrymen any more than he trusts the sullen Indians. So he bears the weight. But the musket is nothing. He is dragging the mantle[1] of civilization up the pristine slopes, over the mud, over the leaves that cast as much shade as a parasol[2] but with none of the charm.
“ad spills the upper boulders in the sun , and makes gaps’ 2. ‘…we do not need the wall” 3. ‘he moves in darkness as it seems to me’ | What is the progress to this discovery ? | 1. the first part of the discovery is the fact that the persona is not yet enlightened 2. the persona begging to question the need for the wall – he is inspired by springs mischief 3. his discovers that some people are unwilling to change due to the constraints of tradition | 1. The symbol of the wall is used to divide 2.
Andy Goldsworthy has used different materials and techniques throughout his art making career that have contributed to the development of his body of work, the way of creating an artwork all determines on the materials and techniques used. Materials and techniques can change the establishment of many great artworks, and can be responsible for new directions that artist take. Techniques manipulate the way in which an artwork is created and produced, materials can control if an artwork turns out the expected way. The media in which Andy Goldsworthy works with and the techniques he uses have challenged a number of artworks produced by him, like his work on rivers and tides, throws and storm king wall; he is forced to carefully conduct his works
Robert Smithson Many artists have found inspiraton in the natural world, only a few have gazed at the earth with a desire to add to it. Among these artists is a man who has revolutionized contemporary art that would bring to question the issues of materials, permanence, function, and presentation(Robertsmithson.org.) Robert Smithson was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, and ever since childhood, had marveled over the forms of earth and animals. From fascination, grew a talent for art that gained him a scholorship at the Art Students League in New york, where he studied for two years and later became an advocate of abstract expressionism. While Smithson began work as a painter, he later met Nancy Holt, a sculptor who he would eventually marry.
Evaluate the ways different artists represent ideas and interests in the world through the development of a visual language. * Andy Goldsworthy * Tracey Moffatt Through the development of a visual language, artists represent and develop ideas and interests to convey to the world. Andy Goldsworthy and Tracey Moffatt are post-modern artists who have very different ideas but portray strong messages to society. Andy Goldsworthy uses the environment to create works and Tracey Moffatt uses the idea of growing up and Aboriginal identity and rights for her ideas to come across. Both Moffatt and Goldsworthy leave the audience with a variety of mixed reactions and criticism to their art works which are good motifs for an artist of these kinds.
The trouble with The Man was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in things and not in the significances. (London 115)”. Once The Man adventured out into the brutal cold temperature he started to realize that the temperature was colder than he imagined it to be. In fact he only carried nothing but the lunch wrapped in a handkerchief.
Simon represents our caring side of human nature. Simon might be alone in his own world at times in the book, but he is the only one that cares about all the boys including the littleuns. In Huts on the Beach, Simon leaves the group of boys and went walking down to the beach. When he got there he saw the littleuns having trouble picking fruit, Goldening writes “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands” (46). This shows that he cares about all the boys in the island and plans on finding a way to help survive and be rescued.
By observing the poems: ‘’A narrow fellow in the grass’’ and ‘’A bird came down the walk’’ we can see that Dickinson has a very complex relationship with nature. Dickinson’s perception of nature is by no means ‘ordinary’. In general the word ‘nature’ springs to mind images of tranquillity and beauty whereas Dickinson tends to focus on how nature is associated with death and danger. Dickinson never declares the obvious in the poem ‘’A narrow fellow in the grass’’ since the word snake in never mentioned although, there is not much description to go on, only that the creature is "spotted" and that it is large enough to make (to the human eye) noticeable changes in the grass when it "rides" by. Since, the snake looks like "a Whip lash / Unbraiding in the Sun," it doesn’t necessarily have to be a giant snake.