Sinthia Cousineau
  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
  • Ceramic Art
    • Abstract, porcelain, mosaic & other >
      • Decals
      • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Pinch Pots
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Violins
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Flowers
    • Fictional Characters
  • Paintings
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Self-Portraits
    • My Watercolour Paintings
    • My Coffee Paintings
    • Models
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel >
        • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Preschool Art >
      • Introduction Lesson: Self-Portraits & Collaborative Drawing
      • Watercolour Snowflakes
      • Emotions in Art
    • Art & Adolescence >
      • Mural Project >
        • Door Mural Project
      • Lesson: Eco Art
      • Lesson: Decorating Fabric
      • Lesson: Zentangles & Patterns
      • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
      • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
      • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
      • Lesson: Canadian Landscapes & Group of Seven
      • Tattoo Art & Meaningful Images
      • Lesson: Stenciling Street Art
      • Lesson: Plaster Figures (grade 7-9)
      • Photoshop Lesson
      • Lesson: Value Scales
      • Lesson Plan: Video Art
      • Lesson Plan: Sound Art
      • Lesson: GIF Project
      • Lesson: Mashup Videos
    • Art Education & Older Adults >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Lesson: Landscape
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
        • Lesson: Roman Mosaics >
          • Roman Mosaics
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Other Lesson Ideas
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Pencil, Markers and Coloring >
          • Introductory Lesson
          • Introduction Lesson: Egyptian Name Cartouche
          • Reptile Zentangle Drawing >
            • Lesson: Drawing Lines
          • Illustrated Names
          • Symmetrical Name Creatures
          • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
          • Grid Drawing Technique
          • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
          • Drawing: 3D Hands
          • Leaf Drawing Collage
          • Ancient Egypt Art
          • Collaborative Doodle
          • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
          • Scribble Drawing
          • Drawing : Word Art
          • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
          • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
          • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Oil Pastels >
          • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
          • Oil Pastel: Aurora Borealis
          • Oil Pastel: Dragon Eye
          • Scratch Art Drawing
          • Oil Pastel: Night vs Day
        • Chalk & Soft Pastel >
          • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
          • Soft Pastel: Galaxy
          • Stained Glass with Chalk Pastel
          • Street Chalk Art
        • Charcoal >
          • Tim Burton Portraits
      • Painting Activities with Kids >
        • Acrylic Painting Lessons >
          • Acrylic Pouring
          • Australian Dot Painting
          • Blow Paint Technique
          • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
          • Pointillism Painting
          • Funky Easter Rabbit
          • Lesson: The Color Wheel
          • Monochromatic Painting
          • Painting: Birch Tree
          • Leaf Painting
          • Pumpkin Painting
          • Painting: Rock Painting
          • Squeegee Painting Technique
          • Origami Inspired Painting
        • Coffee Art
        • Watercolor Activities >
          • Watercolour: One-Point Perspective Urban Colour Wheel
          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
          • Watercolour Winter Tree Cards
      • Mixed Media Activities with Kids >
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories >
          • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Animal Pinch Pots
        • Motion Sculptures
        • Mixed Media Botanical Garden
        • Winter Themed Paper Mosaics
        • Winter Cityscape
        • Winter Landscape Collage
    • Types of Art >
      • Eco Art
      • Kinetic Art
      • Street Art
      • Activist Art
    • History Lessons
  • Art Therapy
    • My Art as Therapy Artworks
    • Symbols in Art Therapy >
      • Art Response
    • Approaches to Art Therapy >
      • Psychodynamic Approach >
        • Group Art Therapy >
          • Structural Family Therapy
        • Spontaneous Expression: Scribble Drawing
    • Art Therapy Interventions >
      • Emotions Wheel
      • Heart Map
    • Art Therapy and Aging
    • Art & Leukemia
    • Art & Prisons
    • Art & Bullying
    • Art & Social Anxiety >
      • Art Therapy & Anxiety Disorders
    • Art & Disabilities
    • Art Therapy Activities
    • Emotional Expression
    • COVID-19 Art Response
  • 3D Art & other mediums
    • Art using Rocks
    • Animation & GIFS
    • Kids: Coloring Printables
    • Dolls
    • Fibers >
      • Embroidery Projects
      • Weaving
      • Crochet Projects
  • Videos
  • Contact Me
    • Artist that Inspire me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Illustrated Names
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí

Environmental Art

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

- Native American Proverb

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"Betrayal" by Spanish artist Mario S. Nevado

What is Eco Art?

  • A term used for forms of art dealing with ecological issues.
Goal:
  • To help improve our relationship with the natural world.
  • To create an understanding of nature and its processes, & allowing us to understand current environmental issues.
  • Allowing us to be concerned with environmental forces & materials we can use to create artworks.
  • To have us rethink our relationship with nature and consider some solutions on how we can better co-exist with it.
  • To restore ecosystems in artistic and aesthetic ways.

Brief History

  • Began in the 1960s.
  • Several artists began sculpting with nature materials. Examples: snow volcanoes, lighting, earth & deep sea sites.
  • Most of these works are temporary & exist now only on photographs.
  • Often these works are filled with messages: environmental, or ontological (concerned with nature of being).
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Types of Eco Art

1) Landscape Manipulation (using nature to create art)
2) Important Message (Environmental, social, or political)
3) Using recycled materials

Examples of Eco Artists
"Land Manipulation"

Robert Smithson

  • An American artist famous for his use of photography in relation to sculpture and land art.
  • He manipulated the natural environment by using rocks and stones to form huge spirals.
Picture
""Spiral Jetty" by Robert Smithson

Andy Goldsworthy

  • A British Artist who created outdoor sculptures using natural materials like: pedals, leaves, snow, ice, rocks and twigs.
Picture
“Stone River” by Andy Goldsworthy

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/andy-goldsworthy-land-art

Andres Amador

  • 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.
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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.
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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
Picture
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 ".
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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.
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“The Great Wave" by Bernard Pras

Sayaka Ganz

  • 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.
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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.


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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
  • Ceramic Art
    • Abstract, porcelain, mosaic & other >
      • Decals
      • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Pinch Pots
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Violins
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Flowers
    • Fictional Characters
  • Paintings
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Self-Portraits
    • My Watercolour Paintings
    • My Coffee Paintings
    • Models
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel >
        • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Preschool Art >
      • Introduction Lesson: Self-Portraits & Collaborative Drawing
      • Watercolour Snowflakes
      • Emotions in Art
    • Art & Adolescence >
      • Mural Project >
        • Door Mural Project
      • Lesson: Eco Art
      • Lesson: Decorating Fabric
      • Lesson: Zentangles & Patterns
      • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
      • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
      • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
      • Lesson: Canadian Landscapes & Group of Seven
      • Tattoo Art & Meaningful Images
      • Lesson: Stenciling Street Art
      • Lesson: Plaster Figures (grade 7-9)
      • Photoshop Lesson
      • Lesson: Value Scales
      • Lesson Plan: Video Art
      • Lesson Plan: Sound Art
      • Lesson: GIF Project
      • Lesson: Mashup Videos
    • Art Education & Older Adults >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Lesson: Landscape
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
        • Lesson: Roman Mosaics >
          • Roman Mosaics
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Other Lesson Ideas
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Pencil, Markers and Coloring >
          • Introductory Lesson
          • Introduction Lesson: Egyptian Name Cartouche
          • Reptile Zentangle Drawing >
            • Lesson: Drawing Lines
          • Illustrated Names
          • Symmetrical Name Creatures
          • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
          • Grid Drawing Technique
          • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
          • Drawing: 3D Hands
          • Leaf Drawing Collage
          • Ancient Egypt Art
          • Collaborative Doodle
          • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
          • Scribble Drawing
          • Drawing : Word Art
          • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
          • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
          • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Oil Pastels >
          • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
          • Oil Pastel: Aurora Borealis
          • Oil Pastel: Dragon Eye
          • Scratch Art Drawing
          • Oil Pastel: Night vs Day
        • Chalk & Soft Pastel >
          • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
          • Soft Pastel: Galaxy
          • Stained Glass with Chalk Pastel
          • Street Chalk Art
        • Charcoal >
          • Tim Burton Portraits
      • Painting Activities with Kids >
        • Acrylic Painting Lessons >
          • Acrylic Pouring
          • Australian Dot Painting
          • Blow Paint Technique
          • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
          • Pointillism Painting
          • Funky Easter Rabbit
          • Lesson: The Color Wheel
          • Monochromatic Painting
          • Painting: Birch Tree
          • Leaf Painting
          • Pumpkin Painting
          • Painting: Rock Painting
          • Squeegee Painting Technique
          • Origami Inspired Painting
        • Coffee Art
        • Watercolor Activities >
          • Watercolour: One-Point Perspective Urban Colour Wheel
          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
          • Watercolour Winter Tree Cards
      • Mixed Media Activities with Kids >
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories >
          • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Animal Pinch Pots
        • Motion Sculptures
        • Mixed Media Botanical Garden
        • Winter Themed Paper Mosaics
        • Winter Cityscape
        • Winter Landscape Collage
    • Types of Art >
      • Eco Art
      • Kinetic Art
      • Street Art
      • Activist Art
    • History Lessons
  • Art Therapy
    • My Art as Therapy Artworks
    • Symbols in Art Therapy >
      • Art Response
    • Approaches to Art Therapy >
      • Psychodynamic Approach >
        • Group Art Therapy >
          • Structural Family Therapy
        • Spontaneous Expression: Scribble Drawing
    • Art Therapy Interventions >
      • Emotions Wheel
      • Heart Map
    • Art Therapy and Aging
    • Art & Leukemia
    • Art & Prisons
    • Art & Bullying
    • Art & Social Anxiety >
      • Art Therapy & Anxiety Disorders
    • Art & Disabilities
    • Art Therapy Activities
    • Emotional Expression
    • COVID-19 Art Response
  • 3D Art & other mediums
    • Art using Rocks
    • Animation & GIFS
    • Kids: Coloring Printables
    • Dolls
    • Fibers >
      • Embroidery Projects
      • Weaving
      • Crochet Projects
  • Videos
  • Contact Me
    • Artist that Inspire me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Illustrated Names
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí