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earth art

American  

noun

  1. the artistic genre consisting of earthworks.


Etymology

Origin of earth art

First recorded in 1965–70


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Anna, meanwhile, devotes herself to earth art, turning machine-lasered iron cutouts laid on white sheets in the open air into large-scale, rust-patterned pieces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

Her variation on earth art is an array of stones dolled up with foundation, bronzer and L’Oréal Paris True Match Lumi Liquid Glow Illuminator.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2017

If you stand on the Mall side you can see the tops of trees and, in the far distance, a venerable piece of urban earth art, the Washington Monument.

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2016

Conqueror and captive of the earth art thou!

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall

"O Brynhild, live!" said the Volsung, "for what shall the world be then When thou from the earth art departed, and the hallowed hearths of men?"

From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris

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