Andy Goldsworthy

                                                     Andy Goldsworthy rides the flow of nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy is a naturalist and environmentalist in addition to being an artist.  He takes both the inspiration for an artwork, and the materials to make it straight from nature. His works are as beautiful as they are ephemeral, laboriously built out of the earth only to crumble back into the very forces of nature which collaborated toward their creation.

 

.  One of the things he does best is taking  brilliant natural colors and organizing them in ways which make you see them in a new light. Its almost as if he paints with nature.

In this piece Andy Goldsworthy plays with color and form, using bright colors to contrast to the black center. He has painstakingly arranged hundreds of multicolor leaves to create this captivating artwork. To me it looks like a solar eclipse reflected back at the sky, at this guy.

In this sculpture Goldsworthy has built up bamboo to look lack cracks in dry ground. He places this sculpture in front of a lake, which causes and interesting interplay between the pattern of arid soil and the damp background of a misty lake. He is probably my favorite of the artist we have studied thus far. Stark and lush at the same time, hauntingly beautiful.