Land Art & Earth Art, Environmental Art, & Environmental Sculpture, Landscape Design, Garden Design and Conceptual Art, Art and Design, Public Art & Urban Art - Site Specific Art and Free Standing Sculpture
It will be very interesting to discuss the differences, similarities
and overlaps of Land Art & Earth Art, Environmental Art, & Environmental
Sculpture, Landscape Design, Garden Design and Conceptual Art.
Or even the tensions between Art and Design; certain overlapping occurs
with terms like Public Art & Urban Art - Site Specific art and Free
Standing Sculpture.
The definitions have not yet crystallized. Different
people have different opinions. Also – the definitions and interpretations
differ from one country to another. And these differences evolve and
can grow into misconceptions in some countries. This is why I think
it is very important for influential people and organizations to try
to oversee the whole field and report in a broad way. Here in Finland
(I was born in Holland, lived and studied 13 years in the U.S.) environmental
art has gotten a different interpretation from that of the countries
in which it actually developed. Here most artists, writers and critics
think that a sculpture becomes an Environmental Sculpture when you put
it into natural surroundings; move a sculpture from a museum into the
forest and it will become an Environmental Sculpture (almost like transubstantiation
- the change of the substance of bread and wine into the Body and Blood
of Christ).
