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Utahns Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Spiral Jetty SLUG Magazine
Robert Smithson designed and directed the construction of his iconic work the Spiral Jetty in April 1970. The Jetty is a site-specific work, meant to interact with changing conditions of the surrounding water, land, and atmosphere.
Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson's Land Art Masterwork The Utah Museum
Spiral Jetty was the first of his pieces to require the acquisition of land rights and earthmoving equipment. He began work on the jetty in April 1970. Construction took six days. In 1970 during the construction of the jetty, Robert Smithson wrote and directed a 32-minute color film, "Spiral Jetty". The film was shot by Smithson and his wife.
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Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork.
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Le cahier numérique Spiral Jetty, une œuvre de Robert SMITHSON
The Source of Robert Smithson's Spiral. By Robert Sullivan. June 18, 2014. In 1959, Robert Smithson, a young abstract painter who would eventually become known as a pioneer of land art, went.
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Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty art Agenda Phaidon
The monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) was created by artist Robert Smithson and is located off Rozel Point in the north arm of Great Salt Lake. Made of black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site, Spiral Jetty is a 15-foot-wide coil that stretches more than 1,500 feet into the lake.
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sitespecific & expanded drawing ROBERT SMITHSON
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 (Great Salt Lake, Utah) (photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni) ©Holt-Smithson Foundation A monument to paradox and transience
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SPIRAL JETTY Robert Smithson, 1970 For Utah State Magazine YouTube
The Concept Behind Spiral Jetty Robert Smithson's inspiration for Spiral Jetty originated from his interest in the concept of entropy and the natural environment. Though, you might be wondering what entropy is, which is simply defined as "disorder" or "randomness" and it is the second law of thermodynamics.
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Aweinspiring Environmental Art 1 Million Women
Robert Smithson (January 2, 1938 - July 20, 1973) was an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. His work has been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums and is held in public collections.
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Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty. Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. 1970
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 (if unwound) x 15 foot spiral of basalt, sand, and soil, ©Holt-Smithson Foundation Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris . A monument to paradox and transience. A loud abrasive buzzing bellows from the nightstand and I raise my head, only to be blinded by.
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, a 1970 artwork in Utah's Great Salt Lake, is a unique blend of nature and human intervention. The spiral design, made of basalt stones and soil, changes over time due to natural forces. This reflects Smithson's interest in entropy, the process of things breaking down.
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Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in 1970 put the modern Earth-art movement in high relief. He left his mark with a massive earthwork sculpture on the northeast edge of the Great Salt Lake. It's 15 feet wide and coils for 1,500 feet near the lake edge. Like much Earth art, Spiral Jetty is a tribute to the daring and imagination of the artist.
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Spiral Jetty 1970 / Robert Smithson The... Efímeras Máster
Robert Smithson is one of the most enigmatic artists of the late 20th century. In 1970 he created Spiral Jetty, a snail-like coil of heaped stones that extends far out into the Great Salt Lake in.
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Spiral Jetty [Robert Smithson] Sartle Rogue Art History
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty in Red Salt Water (c. 1970) Graphite on paper. 9 x 11 7/8 in. (22.9 x 30.2 cm) Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, Fractional and promised gift of Tony Ganz in memory of Victor and Sally Ganz
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Untangling Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty art Agenda Phaidon
Art World Market Podcast Join Artnet PRO People 50 Years After Robert Smithson's Untimely Death, the Holt/Smithson Foundation Has Released Previously Unpublished Photos of 'Spiral Jetty' The mammoth work has become part of the ever-changing local landscape. Jo Lawson-Tancred, July 20, 2023
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‘Spiral Jetty’ Is Named an Official State Work of Art by Utah State
Coordinates: 41.437683°N 112.668913°W Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
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Spiral Jetty, 1970 Robert Smithson
This monumental, 6,000-ton earth work by the late artist Robert Smithson marks its 50th anniversary in 2020. At the start of the pandemic, Spiral Jetty saw an increasing number of visitors.