Research

 Landscape task  

I was asked to look at two different pieces of landscape art and discuss them. A traditional landscape piece and a piece of land art. From my research into land art I have decided to look at the Floating piers by Christo and Jeanne- Claude. 

The floating piers were a temporary installation taking place on lake Iseo, Italy from June 18th - July 3rd 2016. This was a series of floating dock systems covered in 100,000 meters of sunflower yellow nylon fabric being secured down with 200 concrete anchors, all of this created these beautiful walkways or “floating piers” across lake Iseo to the neighbouring island.  The whole idea for this piece was thought up by this pair of artists in 1970 but only came to fruition in 2016 and was only completed by Christo due to his fellow artist and wife Jeanne- Claude’s passing in 2009. 

“Christo and Jeanne- Claude said their projects contained no deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact, their purpose being simply for joy, beauty and new ways of seeing the familiar”- photograhize.com 

Originally, when looking through all the different pieces of land art online I was drawn in to this piece because of its bright use of colour, that shocking dahlia yellow against the deep blue of the lake, this bright colour in a place it typically shouldn’t be. But upon researching it further I think the quote above is one of the main reason I love this piece, Christo and Jeanne-Claude created this piece just because they could, it’s art for arts sake and really nothing more, there’s no main reason for it being created other than for people to use it, make them happy and fully immerse themselves in the experience and I believe fully that should be an artists core when creating.