Rock Harmony
Rock Harmony
(Andy Goldsworthy: “Rock Creation”)
Richard Lipoczi
Art 100
Jennifer Monroe
04/25/2013
Andy Goldsworthy is a British naturalist artist, mostly sculptor and photographer, creating in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is still alive in these days. All his works draw on their themes from the nature: he uses only natural materials in their original environments to his works. He expresses his thoughts through transforming the natural matters to certain kinds of shapes; for example, he set up a very accurate circle from red leaves on the dead fallen leaves, which are brown and yellow, cutting down the edges of the red ones exactly to form a vision as if the still living leaves would continue outside the circle in form of the dead ones. Or, for instance, he creates large spheres from oak leaves attaching them only by their own branches! Goldsworthy never bothers the nature with his art. Some other naturalist artists can form the whole environment only due to their own art goals, while Goldsworthy just uses the surroundings’ materials to create interesting forms without changing the nature a lot or using any other, unnatural matters. He really knows all these kinds of mediums like leaves or rocks well, so he can express even more than one message at the same time with the same piece of his arts. There is no way how his works ought to be changed: they are perfect on the way how they are. Everyone, who loves the nature or enthuses over mathematical concepts or just is amazed by the world’s wonders, can like this artist’s creations. (For those who possess all the three characteristics, Goldsworthy can be one of the favorite artists: on this way, he is, at least, for me.) One of his famous, stone-made arts is called “Rock Creation”. This rock composition is a very high-toned piece of Goldsworthy’s works. This creation can be inspected from plenty of different aspects since it bears some kinds of possible directions of
(Andy Goldsworthy: “Rock Creation”)
Richard Lipoczi
Art 100
Jennifer Monroe
04/25/2013
Andy Goldsworthy is a British naturalist artist, mostly sculptor and photographer, creating in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is still alive in these days. All his works draw on their themes from the nature: he uses only natural materials in their original environments to his works. He expresses his thoughts through transforming the natural matters to certain kinds of shapes; for example, he set up a very accurate circle from red leaves on the dead fallen leaves, which are brown and yellow, cutting down the edges of the red ones exactly to form a vision as if the still living leaves would continue outside the circle in form of the dead ones. Or, for instance, he creates large spheres from oak leaves attaching them only by their own branches! Goldsworthy never bothers the nature with his art. Some other naturalist artists can form the whole environment only due to their own art goals, while Goldsworthy just uses the surroundings’ materials to create interesting forms without changing the nature a lot or using any other, unnatural matters. He really knows all these kinds of mediums like leaves or rocks well, so he can express even more than one message at the same time with the same piece of his arts. There is no way how his works ought to be changed: they are perfect on the way how they are. Everyone, who loves the nature or enthuses over mathematical concepts or just is amazed by the world’s wonders, can like this artist’s creations. (For those who possess all the three characteristics, Goldsworthy can be one of the favorite artists: on this way, he is, at least, for me.) One of his famous, stone-made arts is called “Rock Creation”. This rock composition is a very high-toned piece of Goldsworthy’s works. This creation can be inspected from plenty of different aspects since it bears some kinds of possible directions of