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environmental art

American  

noun

  1. artistic works that are planned, often on a grand scale, to surround or to involve the participation of the spectator.


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Origin of environmental art

First recorded in 1965–70

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Keira Hart-Mendoza, a 38-year-old artist from Bethesda, said she wanted to create an environmental art exhibit to showcase how much trash people create and its impact on nature.

From Washington Post Apr. 26, 2019

It was a wrenching four minutes and 33 seconds of environmental art — the earth stopping turning yet the harmony of the spheres unaffected, thus increasing the value of the ground on which we stand.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 17, 2019

As a relatively emerging niche market, however, sales numbers for environmental art are hard to come by.

From The Guardian Mar. 26, 2016

Maysles also continued a longtime working relationship with artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, whose process for creating monumental environmental art the Maysles Brothers documented in several films beginning in the 1970s.

From Washington Times Mar. 6, 2015

In her review in The Times, Roberta Smith said the exhibition would be the “bliss-out environmental art hit of the summer.”

From New York Times Jul. 13, 2013

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