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Summary: brings nature to life
Review: a brilliant red pool by a mountain stream. a boulder completely wrapped in bright green leaves. a stack of perfectly rounded, improbably balanced stones miles from anywhere on a lonely beach. goldsworthy doesn't paint. he doesn't sculpt. goldsworthy brings ideas to nature. he takes the things he finds wherever he happens to be and uses them to make us stop and look, stop and think, laugh or scratch our heads in wonder. these works are impactful as much through the power of their ideas as the beauty of their images.
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Summary: Beyond marvellous
Review: A must for those of us who need to be reminded of our interconnectedness with our environment.
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Summary: Incomparable photos of one of a kind nature sculptures
Review: Andy Goldsworthy does what some of us would love to do withour lives, if only we were so clever as to believe thatwe could make a living at making love with nature. With patience that reveals why they made it a virtue, Andy makes sculptures without tools, and without man made materials. Only leaves, stones, ice, berries, whatever is available onsite, and only with a harmony that bespeaks a poet. His forms are simple, like nature, the execution is awe-inspiring. A must for for those with an appreciation of transcendant art.
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Summary: A beatutiful expression of simpicity
Review: Andy Goldsworthy has touched me, by using nature as his medium he is able to achieve such pure, simpicity in his work. The color photographs documenting each piece soon after thier completion seem to let you in a secret. But my favorite part is way he brings you through the process with him, using his matter of fact descriptions of weather conditions and other obsticles. It made me feel as though I was right there with him.
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Summary: Mind-opening, eye-catching, spirit-raising
Review: Andy Goldsworthy is a genius. I can't think of another late 20th century artist whose work is so enormously accessible and so hugely rewarding. In "A Collaboration with Nature," Goldsworthy shows us the miracles he has wrought with the simplest materials he finds in front of him: mere stones, water, leaves, branches, mud, and thorns, all "found objects," become the sundry mediums through which Goldsworthy works his visual sorcery.Just a few of dozens of high points in the book: - A graceful circle on the ground, created with brown leaves on the outer perimeter, warming to red, then orange, then yellow leaves toward the center; - A "slate crack line" created when Goldsworthy carefully arranged pieces of slate so that the edges formed a seeming "crack" in the pile; - Three "statues" made of balanced ovoid rocks in the middle of a snow-covered stream, each appearing to be something like well-rounded Giacomettis; - A snowball eerily suspended in and supported by the trees which surround it; - A rectangle of snow, in the middle of which Goldsworthy has carefully carved concentric, successively shallower circles so that the light gleams from the center but gets dimmer and dimmer with each larger circle; - A sycamore branch placed on a bed of snow, juxtaposed with the same sycamore branch stripped of bark and placed on a bed of leaves--the first is dark against white, and the second is white against dark; - An arching series of ice triangles, each of which has been painstakingly stuck to the next and balanced on a moss-covered rock--this looks almost like a glass wing of some sort. I could go on and on by covering every single page in the book, but I'll leave it to you to find out for yourself what a visual feast Goldsworthy provides for the eyes--and what interesting mental exercise he provides for the mind of the observant viewer.
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Summary: Mind-opening, eye-catching, spirit-raising
Review: Andy Goldsworthy is a genius. I can't think of another late 20th century artist whose work is so enormously accessible and so hugely rewarding. In "A Collaboration with Nature," Goldsworthy shows us the miracles he has wrought with the simplest materials he finds in front of him: mere stones, water, leaves, branches, mud, and thorns, all "found objects," become the sundry mediums through which Goldsworthy works his visual sorcery. Just a few of dozens of high points in the book: - A graceful circle on the ground, created with brown leaves on the outer perimeter, warming to red, then orange, then yellow leaves toward the center; - A "slate crack line" created when Goldsworthy carefully arranged pieces of slate so that the edges formed a seeming "crack" in the pile; - Three "statues" made of balanced ovoid rocks in the middle of a snow-covered stream, each appearing to be something like well-rounded Giacomettis; - A snowball eerily suspended in and supported by the trees which surround it; - A rectangle of snow, in the middle of which Goldsworthy has carefully carved concentric, successively shallower circles so that the light gleams from the center but gets dimmer and dimmer with each larger circle; - A sycamore branch placed on a bed of snow, juxtaposed with the same sycamore branch stripped of bark and placed on a bed of leaves--the first is dark against white, and the second is white against dark; - An arching series of ice triangles, each of which has been painstakingly stuck to the next and balanced on a moss-covered rock--this looks almost like a glass wing of some sort. I could go on and on by covering every single page in the book, but I'll leave it to you to find out for yourself what a visual feast Goldsworthy provides for the eyes--and what interesting mental exercise he provides for the mind of the observant viewer.
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Summary: untitled
Review: andy goldsworthy shows what is right in front of you. nature is beautiful. he's added his own personally sensitivity to the medium of natural found objects, but the credit is due also to the objects themselves.
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Summary: Amazing Work with deep meaning and enormous ingenuity
Review: Andy Goldsworthy's work is seamless, flawless. The entities leave one awestruck. They are beautiful. They are truly inspired. By Nature. By an artist's eye. By appreciation and oneness with Nature. When I say oneness, I speak not of the momentary meditative states which one can enduce. I speak, instead, of the true relationship between people and Nature, or what is possible-- if only one is willing to open the eyes and open the heart. Andy Goldsworthy's work makes me FEEL human. Another leaf, another tree, another piece of Nature. Perhaps, it is our fleeting time on this earth that is echoed in these pieces, and not just SOME of Nature. One of the most amazing aspects of his work is the way that they are so subtle and delicate-- and, yet, explode with strength--through color and form. These pieces move me deeply as a being, but more so-- they speak of the true meaning/GOAL of art, or what it can be....Something which affects everyone uniquely without forcing you see anything. AND, works that in their temorary states speak to the creating, not the permanant "collecting". No dust shall ever collect on these pieces. One may even think of the Native Americans (in the U.S.) with their sand paintings, which blow away in the wind. It is in the work and creation that one finds the meaning. The beauty stays with us forever-- long after the ice has melted, the leaves have blown away and decayed, and the rocks have worn down to pebbles. --S.R.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Beautiful coffee-table art book in which the artist/photographer uses the "found objects" of nature: leaves, stones, ice, snow, feathers, etc. to create amazing temporary works of art. These are then photographed before the elements return the materials to their natural state. It doesn't sound like much, but it's amazing to look at and see what a creative mind can do with nature and patience.
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Summary: Eternity in transition
Review: Goldsworthy communes with nature in a mystical yet logical way most of us never think of. The transitory materials used in his creations are earthly yet the resulting work is stunning and shocking in a giddy sense. The viewer is caught off guard at the delightful patterns and sculptures spun from Goldsworthy's world. The fragility and temporariness of the artwork reflects certain sadness that all good things must come to an end. Nature is paradoxical as it is fleeting and permanent at the same time. The seasons fill our visual canvass with changing color yet they return with infinite subtleties. When I look at Goldsworthy's melting ice spheres I know time will erase its brief existence but the image in pictures has been captured in my memory for life. Goldsworthy's work portrays nature in an eternal transitory state and sadly mirrors the transitory nature of all things. Everything, from human beings to all living things and to this world and beyond, will undergo some state of transition. Goldworthy shows us how best to open our mind and heart to appreciate our world.
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