Artist Andres Amador creates unconventional art with his incredible sand paintings.
Using the beach as his enormous canvas and rakes as his brushes, Amador creates massive, eye-catching murals featuring geometric and floral patterns.
The sand artist uses his whole body to navigate his tools across the grains, transforming his chosen coastline into one of his giant Earthscape paintings.
Examples of Eco Artists "Important Messages"
Nele Azevedo
She carved thousands of small figures which she placed on important monuments to have her audience watch them melt.
Her sculptures question the role of monuments in cities.
Mainly, her art address the urgent matter of climate change & how it threatens our existence.
Nele Azevedo's 1,000 ice figures on the steps of Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt Square
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
A Bulgarian American and his American Wife.
The couple was interested in provoking their audience to think about the immediate world.
In 1972-1976 created “Running Fence”, consist of cloth attached to street poles. A veiled French of 24.5 miles crossing the private property of 59 ranchers to reach the Pacific Ocean.›-Inspired after the Continental Divide.
Aimed to create a new way of seeing familiar landscape
Chisto & Jeanne-Claude's Running Fence (1976)
Jeff Hong
A New York animation artist.
He imagined some of Disney's popular characters facing the grim conditions associated with the reality of climate change and pollution.
He states that if "if we do not safeguard out planet, these fairytales most certainly won't have a happy ending ".
Examples of Eco Artists "Recycled Materials"
Bernard Pras
A French artist who used anamorphosis (sticking objects on a canvas to give more volume).
He turned trash into treasure.
“The Great Wave" by Bernard Pras
SayakaGanz
Inspired by the Japanese belief that “all objects have spirits” and those thrown away weep in the trash bins at night.
She creates animals, to bring live again to these discarded objects.
Bordalo:
A Portuguese artist who hopes to draw attention to our culture’s uncontrollable production of waste with his creation of animalistic trash sculptures.
A street artist who uses trash found on the city streets and brings them to life with large mural sculptures.
Presentation "Environmental Art"
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