Earth art, an art movement that began in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, is manifested in the inseparable connection between the earth's landscape and the artwork itself, and it is also a form of art created in nature, with the creative materials mostly taken directly from the natural environment. Using the land, valleys, rivers and seas, and public buildings as canvases, they created stunning works that drew humans closer to nature and brought the world back to focus on and return to nature.

01. Mr. and Mrs. Christo

In their 57-year career, the Christo's have redefined the scale of installation and earth art, creating a series of works that break away from the established categories and reveal infinite possibilities. They use common, inexpensive materials such as fabric, strips, and plastic bags to create their works, selling sketches and architectural models to raise funds for their production, making unrealistic ideas a reality.

Surrounding the Islands" was created by them in 1980-1983, inspired by French Impressionist painter Monet's painting "Water Lilies". The work is a spectacle with over 600,000 square meters of pink fabric covering 11 islands in Florida, which looks like 11 water lilies floating on the blue sea from high altitude. Within two weeks of its completion, the work attracted tens of thousands of visitors, with 120 people visiting the work on an inflatable boat, making it an indelible landmark in Florida's cultural history.

The Pont Neuf, which spans the Seine and crosses the western end of the Île de la Cité, is the oldest bridge in Paris and one of the city's most historic monuments. The Christo's wanted to turn it from a building, from an artist's inspiration to a work of art, and came up with the plan to wrap the entire bridge in plastic, creating a strange and unrealistic modern scene in the oldest part of Paris.

Another masterpiece of the Christo's is "Canyon Curtain" from 1970-1972, in which they draped 3.6 tons of orange nylon fabric between two U-shaped canyons sandwiched by two mountain slopes 1200 feet apart in Colorado's Rifle Canyon, a huge orange curtain drawn across the mountain canyon, a magnificent beauty.

Rhapsody of Umbrellas" is an art project that stretches from the valley of Los Angeles to the Sato River Valley in Tokyo, covering a total length of 12 miles and 75 square miles, with more than 2,000 people involved in the project at a cost of $26 million. A total of 3,100 giant umbrellas were erected, each one 5 meters high and weighing over 200 kilograms, the scale of which has surpassed any single work in the history of human art that has ever existed in physical space.

02. Gelitin

In 2000, Gelitin, a Viennese art team formed in 1978, began to conceive an interesting and meaningful art project. They envisioned a giant rabbit knitted by a giant woman on a hill, and people passing by as small as a daisy, as if they had fallen into Gulliver's Land of the Little People, thus beginning a new world adventure. They drew a portrait of the rabbit in their minds and named it Rosa Hase (Hase German for rabbit).

After 5 years of creation, sewing and site selection, this big biodegradable pink rabbit made of eco-friendly materials was finally born, lazily lying in the sun in a corner of the Italian mountains.

Due to her huge size, satellite maps can capture her presence. Her location can be pinpointed by entering her latitude and longitude into Google Maps. The creator Gelitin also encouraged people to get close to her, to feel her healing power, to feel the inclusiveness of her surroundings, and to feel small at the same time. The pink rabbit instantly became a local hot spot. Tourists came from all over the world.

The Gelitin team had expected her to be with us for 20 years, degrading completely into the earth in 2025. But judging from the comments of visitors from all over the Internet, it seems that this big rabbit that once brought us fantasy and warmth has returned to nature ahead of schedule.

03. Walter de Maria

Walter de Maria is an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer who lives and works in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is associated with the minimalist, conceptual and earth art of the 1960s. early sculpture of the 1960s was influenced by Dadaism, Suprematism and Constructivism. This influence led de Maria to use simple geometric shapes and industrially manufactured materials such as stainless steel and aluminum - materials that also characterize Minimal Art.

Lightning Wilderness is a work of earth art located in the remote high desert region of western New Mexico. It is a well-known work by Walter de Maria.

The work consists of 400 stainless steel rods, spread over thousands of square kilometers, each 6.27 meters long, arranged in a rectangular arrangement of 16 rods in width and 25 rods in length, according to the standard of 67.05 meters between rods. The distance between the steel cups is so great that if the viewers are in between, they must struggle to find the next one, and it is only in searching across one by one that they can have a first-hand experience of the enormous tension of the work.

During the season of thunder and lightning, which often occurs from June to September, these mugs become electrodes in the wilderness, and their role is the best link between heaven and earth as they receive lightning. But they are dangerous and even threatening at this time, so the viewer must stay away from them to enjoy the spectacle of the meeting between heaven and earth. But the appreciation of the "lightning field" is not limited to thunder and lightning; it is an unforgettable experience to enter this regular and unfettered field on a clear day, or to watch the sun rise and set with the sun close to the tip of a metal pole.

This work called "Drilling the Earth by a Thousand Meters" was created by artist Walter De Maria in 1977 and left in Friedrich Park in the German city of Kassel as a permanent earth sculpture.

When Walter de Maria created the work "Drilling the Earth by a Thousand Meters", he brought in a drilling rig that fully met professional specifications and drilled down into the depths of the earth every day. This act, which cost DM 1 million for just one impossible-to-view work, could not be condoned by the public. People protested in various ways to the organizers of Documenta. The exhibition was enlivened by "Drilling the Earth One Thousand Meters". As a visible result, a five-centimeter diameter cross-section was left on the ground.

04. Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer is a land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculpture. Working primarily outside the traditional confines of art spaces in galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, and process. A pioneer of the 20th century land art or earthwork movement, he is widely recognized for his sculptures and environmental structures made with earthwork equipment and began working in the American West in 1967.

As a young artist in New York in the 1960s, Heizer began making "displacement paintings," geometric canvases in light and dark tones, and in the winter of 1967, over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, he excavated several fissures in the earth, adjusting his New York paintings into three dimensions. These "non-sculptures" or "anti-sculptures" became the basis for a new sculptural vocabulary as Heiser began to use the land and its removal as his medium.

05. Lee Myung Ho

Lee Myung Ho is a photographer and university photography professor from South Korea, and "Tree" is an ongoing photographic project he has been working on for nearly a decade. In this series, he has gone to great lengths to build a white background for the trees in the wild, looking like a portrait of the trees.

Behind each seemingly simple and clear photo is a huge amount of labor and effort. In contrast to most prolific photographers, Lee Myung Ho only produces three to four works per year.

The initial research and exploration took up more than half of the workload, but it was invisible in the photos. From site selection to canvas construction to post-production, the whole process is not only long, but requires an adequate budget.

Through this series of works, Li Minghao hopes to explore the understanding of nature, art and reality. Li Minghao said he chose trees as the subject because a tree randomly chosen in nature does not have social significance.

In early portraits, photographers creatively built studios to achieve better lighting and clean backgrounds so that the photos could focus more on the models, but Lee's tree works seem to be a multiple satire on the history of photography and even painting, as if the act of raising a camera to take a photo is full of farce.

The artist incorporates his work deeply into traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture. But for Lee Myung Ho, he is more fascinated by how to capture moments without much interference.

06.Lee Jeong Lok

Born in 1971 in Gwangju, Korea, Lee Jeong Lok studied design at Gwangju University in 1996 and completed his graduate studies at Hongik University in 1998. His creations revolve around people's perceptions, and he believes that light can give people an almost ghostly and mysterious feeling.

The serene natural landscapes and vast outdoor panoramas are embellished with luminous geometric shapes, Korean characters and butterfly shapes. Growing up downward, he was addicted to nature, so when he became an artist, his photography projects were all shot in his hometown's rice fields, lakes, riverbanks, bamboo forests and mountains. lee used various props to decorate the natural grasses, rivers and hills, and then used various lights to render the images with fantastical colors, thus creating a magical landscape like a wonderland.

ArtistLee Jeong Lokcreates gorgeous psychedelic photography works with the use of moving shimmering light. Various props are used to decorate the grass, trees, rivers and hills in nature, followed by various lights to render fantastical colors for the images.

He focuses his attention on lush green forests and bamboo groves, as well as lakeside landscapes filled with fog. He considers himself a devout man and always tries to express a sense of rational depth in his photographs.

Light graffiti, also commonly referred to as light painting, light graffiti, and photo-graffiti, is a photographic technique in which a hand-held light source or camera is moved at night or in a dark room to produce a photogram effect. In most cases, the light source does not have to be present in the work. The art of photo-graffiti was born by relying on the movement of light to create fantastic images. This performance art, born in the streets, has now become a worldwide craze.

The photographs, all taken at night, are striking in the form of colorful lights that dance throughout the frame, surround the cliffs on the side of a mountain, or wander above sea level. The artist's careful and precise creative process, both in terms of realistic photography and digital manipulation, is on display in Lee Jeong Lok's three series, namely Colorful Butterflies, Tree of Life on an Island, and Decoded Landscape.

Through the light and shadow words standing in the natural landscape, the complex elements of the Korean language are expressed by the flickering and changing circles of light. The long-exposure shots of these installations make the words in the images surrounded by a misty circle of light, and the intention of the flashing bright spots may symbolize the way people operate their respiratory system as they exhale each word, inhaling and exhaling to keep the cycle of life going.

Natural scenes with flowing character photography portray the pure natural environment as full of mystery.

07. Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist known for his site-specific installations involving natural materials and the passage of time. A sculptor and photographer, Goldsworthy carves his installations from rock, ice, leaves or branches, aware that the landscape changes, and then carefully documents the ephemeral collaboration with nature through photography. "It's not about art," he explains. "It's about living and the need to understand that many things in life don't last."

In working with nature, Andy Goldsworthy can process anything: branches, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns, creating site-specific installations that explore the essence of these materials. In this process, he must first adapt mentally, physically and emotionally to his environment.

08.Tim Knowles

Tim Knowles uses sophisticated instruments and time-consuming waiting to create works that are independent of his own hands. He invented this interesting and experimental creative process that introduces randomness and unpredictability into his work, showing the relationship between humans and nature.

He fixes pens to the tips of various branches, places paper under them, and lets the movement of the wind determine the final composition of the work. He leaves the control of his works entirely to nature. Like a signature, each painting reveals the different characteristics and qualities of each tree.

These brush marks record the natural movement of the trees and record the stillness of the trees. Each painting shows the characteristics of the branches of different trees as they sway in the breeze: the soft willow, with its cloud-like diffusion; the slack oak, with its fluid and poetic lines; the stiff dragon spruce, with its brief, thick ink pokes; and the stiff hawthorn, with its slightly nervy, concentrated hovering.

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