Implications and limitations of the Land Art

 Contemporary Art Series 9
death and new inspiration and limitations of the Land Art
Zhang Yi Abstract: In the Land Art works full of mysticism, the real salvation is absent. Land Art brings us than the actual salvation, but the shaman-style madness.
generation of Land Art, but the call of the spiritual arts. Disenchantment of Modern Art through the night, the 20th century, 60 years, land art charm to back the return is art history and history of ideas inevitable result of development.
Disenchantment of Modern Art does not eliminate the divinity of the universe, a result of excessive Disenchantment of Modern Art's own death. No matter how technology is developed, the face of the infinite universe, human beings after all, are their own insignificance.
the fundamental crux of the problem of modernity is the split between man and God and the relationship between people, the end result of this fragmentation is the absurdity of human existence and the art of their own nothingness. Land Art is In such a context is born. resumption of art and the link between God and to call for the reconstruction of relations between people, became conscious of the purpose of Land Art or indirect inspiration.
We Robert. Smithsonian's work is also part of nature. While the body of the earth a huge amount of works of art, fully integrated with nature, but the strength of the core is not material but spiritual meaning behind the work.
If we say that modern art the purpose of art on behalf of religion and human self-salvation, then, as a burgeoning post-modern art earth art, its purpose is to melt the divine in human nature, and people to achieve divine salvation. However, not so much Land Art is a kind of salvation, as it is an expectation of salvation. In the desolate land art scene, though we can feel the earth's mysteries, but not the actual taste of salvation.
in Robert . Smithsonian's Maria's This mystical dialogue and Building br> Land Art in the scale of the stirring, to produce an effect similar to the ancient religious sites. In fact, the earth artist as a grand religious monuments in the ancient origins of his art and artistic creation attempting to land Call of religion (belief) of the return. Therefore, earth art has gone beyond the aesthetic category, reflecting the unique moral and even religious (faith) orientation.
However, the fundamental lack of Land Art is also reflected in its most areas boast. Land Art is full of mysticism in the works, the real salvation is absent. Land Art is not actually bring us salvation, but the shaman-style madness. can be said that the creation of the earth in the art and Boyce There is an inherent spirit of consistency.
compare land art and the of the other.
Abraham built an altar was first in Shechem under an oak Morley, the second of the altar in Bethel, the third of the altar is the interest spread in Hebron under the oak. which Shechem means home, to have real protection and rest; Hebron means When will Three of the altar contains all the mysteries of the human right to survive, and the world today is still the eternal truth of His servant: first, a normal person should have faith in God, belief in the right people together and learn from God to God capacity, so that people will be the right knowledge and wisdom; when people have faith, the need to live in the house of God, that is, people can not alone, can not be divorced from the relationship with others; the same time, not only to live in the family of God, but also people with home traffic, this traffic includes all acts of love. This house is actually a human that come all the discussion of this doctrine.
on the three Abraham built an altar, there are even more profound, richer meaning, I do not want to start this article describes. The simple description above, we can already clearly see , Land Art and sacrifice than any other real difference!
Although the descendants of Abraham can be built into the altar as the three works of art, however, Abraham built an altar three times the meaning of art can not match. Land Art creation and Abraham built an altar is no doubt the three there is a fundamental difference.
In fact, although the opening of the Art Land Art Reenchantment the road, but not a real spiritual art. to Land Art and the universal lack of interoperability the form is not so much that it created a new artistic era, as it has demonstrated the art of death.
the true meaning of the Land Art is that it declared in the spirit of the connotation of the end of modern art and spiritual art (after the modern) emergence; in art form, it indicates a return to easel painting.