This is an art piece inspired by Robert Smithson. I'm inspired by Robert Smithson because he used the environment to create his art. I thought that was really unique and amazing. The concept behind my art is that the environment reflects us all. The leaves ,sticks, and pine cones represent the environment. The mirror is used to be apart of the environment. The concept is to look at yourself and see yourself in the environment. And also, your place within the environment.

                                                            Conceptual Art- Land Art


       
How it all began:"Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 2, 1938. In 1953, as a high-school student, he won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York, where he studied in the evenings for the next two years, also taking classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1956. Smithson’s first solo exhibition was in 1959, at the Artists Gallery, New York. In 1964, he began to produce what he considered his first mature works of writing and sculpture." http://www.diaart.org/sites/page/59/1602

Robert
Smithson worked outside. He used nature to make designs, such as the swirl. He also used nature to place mirrors in random places. The mirrors would reflect the environment. A lot of the colors that Robert used for his artwork were really just neutral colors. Natural colors that we see in the environment. Robert didn't like the idea of getting money for his masterpieces, which is why he used nature to create art. He tried to get away from all the raucous. I do appreciate that about him dearly. It definitely makes him different from all the other artists. I think he's one of my favorite artists. To me that means that he really is passionate for art. I love the idea of using nature to create art, because i love nature. Robert did it in a way that didn't affect the environment.
           One of my favorite art pieces of Robert Smithson is the 'Spiral Jetty'. He used salt crystals, basalt rocks, mud, earth and water on the northeastern shore in the Great Salt Lake in Utah to create the Spiral Jetty. I think that Robert was a geophill. Meaning, he had love for the earth. When constructing his art, he was very careful with the environment. Another masterpiece of his that I admire is the ones where he literally uses mirrors in the environment. To him it meant that the mirrors were reflecting the environment and the person's place in the environment.

His artwork...

1. Spiral Jetty

2. Mirrors In The Environment

Art is a Pattern

Alfred North Whitehead once said, "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." 

This means that an artist repeats a pattern in their art work. And that’s why people like art because it’s familiar to them and maybe that’s why people like it so much. Just like a music artist, they make music that sells, music that they know that people will like and then when the public hears the artists new album, they might like it because they have heard it before.