6 Amazing Example Of Land Art To Visit In The World

Land art or Earth art is an art movement in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked. It is also an art form that is created in nature, using natural materials such as soil, rock (bed rock, boulders, stones), organic media (trees, grass) and water. The works frequently exist in the open, located well away from civilization, left to change and erode under natural conditions.

# Forest Guitar, Argentina

Breaking up the flat agricultural areas of Argentina's Pampas is a guitar formed entirely out of trees. Stretching for 2/3 of a mile (1km), the multi-colored instrument was created by one Argentine farmer to memorialize his wife. Crushed by the loss of his love, a few years later Pedro Martin Ureta (owner) began working on designing a guitar in his field that could be seen from above by airplane. He settled on the design because his late wife loved the instrument and he wanted to memorialize her on his land.

# The Green Cathedral, Netherlands

The Green Cathedral or De Groene Kathedraal located near Almere Netherlands, is an artistic planting of Lombardy poplars (Populus nigra italica) that mimics the size and shape of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France. The Green Cathedral is 150 m (490 ft) long and 75 m (246 ft) wide, and the mature poplar trees are approximately 30 m (98 ft) tall.

# Spiral Jetty, USA

Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April, 1970 that is considered to be the central work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah entirely of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks and water, Spiral Jetty forms a 1,500-foot-long (460 m), 15-foot-wide (4.6 m) counterclockwise coil jutting from the shore of the lake.

# Heart-Shaped Meadow, UK

An English farmer created a heart-shaped meadow surrounded by oak trees in memory of his wife (he lost her 17 ​​years ago), that was unknown to the world until a balloonist spotted it. This beautiful meadow is located in the south English countryside.

# Sky Garden Crater, Ireland

Liss Ard Gardens Resort (southern Ireland) includes a magnificent 'Crater' - designed by James Turrell, the extraordinary American artist who is world-renowned for his works on the theme of 'Light', and the Swiss architect Gert Burla. The Crater was created for the Irish skies to be appreciated by the spectators lying on the stone structures at the bottom - the dome-effect that is created in the elliptical frame is truly an unforgettable experience.

# Broken Circle/Spiral Hill, Netherlands

For the group exhibition of contemporary art Sonsbeek '71 in the Dutch city of Arnhem, Robert Smithson realized Broken Circle and Spiral Hill in an inactive sand-pit in Emmen. On a conical mound, a spiral path runs counterclockwise. At the top of the Spiral Hill is an observation platform, from which the best view of Broken Circle, located on the edge of the flooded gravel pit.