Essays on Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy commonly referred to as a performance artist who doesn’t require an audience is fascinated by nature and the various shapes it makes on mother earth. Andy’s work is explored in the film where the natural landscape and sea provides inspiration and captures a perfect image of his ephemeral art. The documentary is underpinned throughout by excellent but eerie apt musical score performed by Fred Frith. The director of the film Reidelsheimer encapsulates the artist Andy and the art perfectly that it deserved much recognition other than the ten year German film Award it got. Goldsworthy begins ...

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist born 26 July 1956. Andy describes the process and decay of photography in the ephemeral and the transient state. Andy observes the change of artwork in its lifecycle. Andy expresses the intensity of an artwork during the peak when it is active and the low intensity when the artwork is prone to decay. As a student of art in 1976 at Preston Polytechnic, Andy manages to use fresh illustrations that are in rapport with nature. The artist elaborates the experience of the farm that lead him have an intimacy with nature. As an art student, ...

The film shows various aspects of And Goldsworthy’s art or process. The materials that Goldsworthy uses in his art process have been referred to throughout the film. The materials include leaves, icicles, stones, colored flowers, thorns, twigs and snow. From the film, we can tell of the perception of Goldsworthy regarding the materials that form his art process. His art is inspired by the environment. It is because of this reason that he works with nature in its entirety. Part of his art process as depicted in the film is the tools that he uses. When he is ...

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Both Andy and Segal were sculptors though from different times. They had various similarities in the type of artwork that they took interest in doing. It is clear that both artists were coming from different ethnicity despite the similarities in the art. Andy Goldsworthy was British while George Segal was an American. Some of the obvious differences that exist between these two artists are the facts that they took interests on other activities besides building sculptures such as photography, developing paintings, along with being environmentalists. The potential both artists put in their work was evident with each artist having ...