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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

Example Sentences

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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

Barefoot boys and braless girls pedal past on bicycles, mill joyously on the streets, hang around the local totem�an American flag-topped heap of wooden planks and tree trunks known as "the earth art market."

From Time Magazine Archive

O sun-god, the judge supreme of heaven and earth art thou!

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

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