"Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works."
This subfield focuses on installations that incorporate natural or environmental elements such as earth, water, or plants.
Environmental sustainability: Understanding how to create art installations that are sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Public space: Understanding the use and limitations of public spaces for installation art.
Materials and tools: Learning about the various materials and tools used in creating environmental installation art.
Site-specific art: Understanding the importance of creating art installations that are specifically designed for a particular location.
Spatial awareness: Understanding how to use space effectively in creating environmental installation art.
Collaboration: Collaborating with other artists and experts in different fields to create successful installation art.
Visual storytelling: Creating a narrative through visual imagery in environmental installation art.
Community engagement: Engaging the community and creating art installations that reflect local culture and values.
Conceptualization: Understanding how to conceptualize and plan an environmental installation art piece.
Installation logistics: Understanding the logistics of creating and installing large-scale art installations.
Natural elements: Using natural elements such as water, wind, and light in creating environmental installation art.
Social justice: Using environmental installation art to raise awareness of social justice issues.
Performance art: Understanding how performance art can be incorporated into environmental installation art.
Public art funding: Understanding the various sources of funding for public art installations.
Exhibition design: Understanding how to design effective exhibition spaces for environmental installation art.
Human impact: Addressing human impact on the environment through installation art.
Conservation: Using environmental installation art to raise awareness about conservation efforts.
Risk management: Understanding how to manage and mitigate risks when creating environmental installation art.
Land art: Understanding the history and techniques of land art in creating environmental installation art.
Alternative energy: Incorporating alternative energy sources into environmental installation art.
Land art is an environmental installation art form that incorporates natural or man-made elements into the landscape: It emphasizes natural environments and materials, such as stones or earth, to create a site-specific, often large-scale work of art.
Bio art is the practice of using biological or living materials to create works of art: It often incorporates elements such as plants, animals, or bacteria, and explores themes of evolution, genetics, and the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Light art uses light as a medium to create immersive and interactive installations: It often incorporates innovative technology, such as LED lights or video projections, to create dynamic and visually stunning works of art.
Sound art is a form of environmental installation art that uses sound as its primary medium: It can involve natural sounds or human-generated sounds, and often explores themes of noise pollution, acoustic ecology, and the relationship between sound and space.
Interactive installations are immersive and participatory works of art in which the audience is invited to interact with the artwork: They can incorporate a variety of media, such as sound, light, or movement, and often explore themes of social interaction, identity, or communication.
Performance art incorporates live elements, such as actors or dancers, into the installation to create a multi-sensory experience: It often explores themes of ritual, ceremony, or celebration, and may incorporate elements of theater, dance, or music.
Site-specific art is created in response to a specific site or location, such as a natural environment, a historical site, or a public space: The artwork is designed to engage with and respond to its surroundings, often incorporating elements such as light, sound, or movement.
Urban art is created in urban environments, such as city streets or abandoned buildings: It often incorporates elements such as graffiti, murals, or sculptures, and explores themes of urban decay, gentrification, and social justice.
Installation sculpture is a form of sculpture that creates a three-dimensional environment or space for the viewer to inhabit: It often incorporates non-traditional materials, such as found objects or recycled materials, to create a multi-layered and visually compelling work of art.
Ecological art is a form of environmental installation art that explores human interaction with the natural world: It often incorporates elements such as plants, water, or animals, and explores themes such as sustainability, conservation, and environmental justice.
"Environmental art has evolved away from formal concerns, for example monumental earthworks using earth as a sculptural material, towards a deeper relationship to systems, processes and phenomena in relationship to social concerns."
"Environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront."
"The term 'environmental art' often encompasses 'ecological' concerns but is not specific to them."
"It primarily celebrates an artist's connection with nature using natural materials."
"The concept is best understood in relationship to historic earth/Land art and the evolving field of ecological art."
"The field is interdisciplinary in the fact that environmental artists embrace ideas from science and philosophy."
"The practice encompasses traditional media, new media and critical social forms of production."
"The work embraces a full range of landscape/environmental conditions from the rural, to the suburban and urban as well as urban/rural industrial."
"Integrated social and ecological approaches developed as an ethical, restorative stance emerged in the 1990s."
"Environmental artists embrace ideas from science and philosophy."
"Environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront."
"Environmental art has evolved away from formal concerns, towards a deeper relationship to systems, processes, and phenomena in relationship to social concerns."
"For example, monumental earthworks using earth as a sculptural material."
"Integrated social and ecological approaches developed as an ethical, restorative stance emerged in the 1990s."
"The work embraces a full range of landscape/environmental conditions from the rural, to the suburban and urban as well as urban/rural industrial."
"Environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront."
"The concept is best understood in relationship to historic earth/Land art."
"More recent ecological and politically motivated types of works."
"The practice encompasses traditional media, new media and critical social forms of production."