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1970: “Spiral Jetty”

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1970 “Spiral Jetty” by Robert Smithson, Sculpture, earthwork - basalt rock, salt crystals, earth and water, 4.572 m × 457.2 m (Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah) The “Spiral Jetty” is an earthwork created on the year when the first Earth Day happens. It marks the human awareness of nature and how we are destroying it, and hopefully, nature will recover. This earthwork has exceptionally explained how we can affect nature and how nature can slowly weather our creation. Robert Smithson has moved a large amount of rocks to create a spiral in the Great Salt Lake. The rocks are dark and black at the beginning, which contrast nicely with the salt water. However, as time passes and the salt water slowly clumps onto and weathers the rocks, the rock can change its colors from black, brown to white, while the sea water changes from blue, grey to red. #nature #saltlake #landscape #path #spiralpath #earthwork #lake #mountains #spiral #earthday #1970 #awareness #inconsistancy #water #rock #color #c
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Connection: “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” and “Spiral Jetty”

 The water bed in both works are known to be relaxing. 
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1884-1886: “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

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  1884-1886 “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat, Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism, Oil on canvas, 207.6 cm × 308 cm (The Art Institute of Chicago) The dots on the painting creates the figure, and the change between the hue of the color created the form of the body. This painting has a relaxed scenery where people come together to be in the present and have fun. There are people of various ages with various things on their agenda. Even the animals are doing something different. The color used in the painting is light with an exception of the foreground which is darker than any other area, and it is an exception which provides the viewer a better depth of field because a dotted painting often comes out as plain. #body #nineteenthcentury #oilsketches #dashes #dots #park #people #chill #leisure #picnic #French #pets #painting #woman #umbrella #sun #light #day #lifestyle #dress #quite #peace #man #dog #flowers #grass #landscape #art #painting #money #trees
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Connection: “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California” and “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

The number of people which are too different not to be pointed out. In the painting by Albert Bierstadt, the landscape is shown to be empty and taken able. Meanwhile, in the painting by Georges Seurat showed how populated the area was.  
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1868: “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California”

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1868 “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California” by Albert Bierstadt, Luminism, Pastoral, Oil on canvas, 1.83 m x 3.05 m “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California” shows an inhabited landscape full of animals to hunt and minerals to mine. It is a land of the future and a space to expand for the Europeans. The easy sun reflected upon the mountainside will catch the attention of anyone nearby and spark the emotion to want the beautiful scenery as their own. However, the land was not theirs and the land was not inhabited. The indiginous people were there first, and somehow it was the European’s right to have the property. #politics #1860s #landscape #oilpainting #nature #scenicview #mountains #lake #animals #California #nopeople #light #sun #beautiful #empty #trees #mountains #scenery #snow #animas #deers #birds #epic #lake #clouds #shadow #earth  
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Connection: “The Slave Ship” and “Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California”

Both of the paintings show scenic views. Even though these two paintings take place at a different time, they still exist at the same time in this world with the same problem of discriminations. 
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1840: “The Slave Ship”

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1840 “The Slave Ship” by Joseph Mallord William Turner RA, Romanticism, Oil on canvas, 90.8 cm x 122.6 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) “The Slave Ship” is a political calling of the unfair treatment slaves are getting at the time; even though, slavary has already been banned. The first color that hits the viewer is the red from the sun, which gives off the impression of anger. It is followed by the looks of the crashing waves in the ocean and the sinking ship. The details will slowly be revealed as the viewer looks closer to the foreground. It is the dark image of slaves drowning in shackles and eaten by sea creatures. #nature #oilpainting #ship #slaves #violence #story #British #poetic #shackles #fish #eating #biting #drowning #people #men #women #africanamerican #waves #crashes #sun #light #red #anger #ocean #mystery #currentevent #hands #helpless #death birds #poles #sinkingship #rocking #feelings  
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