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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Richard Long - Land Artist

"Back in 1964, when Richard Long was 18, he went for a walk on the downs near his native Bristol. The countryside was covered in snow, and faced with a pristine expanse of silent whiteness, he began rolling a snowball through it. When the snowball became too big to push any further, Long took out his camera. He did not take a snapshot of the giant snowball; instead, he photographed the dark meandering track it had left in the snow. The ensuing image, one of his earliest works of what is now called land art, is named Snowball Track. Pure and simple. And, in its purity and simplicity, it denoted all that would follow...."

- Sean O'Hagan
The Observer, Saturday 9 May 2009




A LINE MADE BY WALKING

ENGLAND 1967



A LINE IN THE HIMALAYAS

1975



CIRCLE IN ALASKA
BERING STRAIT DRIFTWOOD ON THE ARCTIC CIRCLE 1977




HOGGAR CIRCLE
THE SAHARA 1988




DUSTY BOOTS LINE
THE SAHARA 1988

Nature Meets Museum:



STONE LINE (1980)
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART EDINBURGH 2007

photo by Thomas Bruns



BERLIN CIRCLE
HAMBURGER BAHNHOF BERLIN 2011



FIVE PATHS
GALERIA MÁRIO SEQUEIRA BRAGA PORTUGAL 2004

Artist's Website: http://www.richardlong.org/Sculptures/2011sculpupgrades/dusty.html
Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Long_(artist)
Newspaper Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/10/art-richard-long

1 comment:

  1. Hello Kadie,
    Thank you for the review of Richard Long's legacy and it's relationship to your meandering through YOUR new territory. I'm not sure that you will be gathering items for an eventual gallery exhibition, but I do look forward to your eventual photo-essay.
    Ann

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