Historical and Cultural Context -
Andy Goldsworthy - Beneath the Surface Appearance

“As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.” http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andy_goldsworthy.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian/issues97/feb97/rainshadow_jpg.html
Lying on a rock during a shower in 1993, Goldsworthy left his "rain shadow," photographing it before it faded.

Six Elements of Visual Art

Line - An identifiable path of a point moving in space. It can vary in width, direction, and length.

http://hebert.kitp.ucsb.edu/sand/andy_goldw.jpg
Fine dry sand, 1989

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Cherry Leaves

http://www.hainesgallery.com/Main_Pages/Artist_Pages/AGOL.image_8.html
Torn lines through elm leaves held to stone with water, 2002

http://courses.albion.edu/Archived_Fall2001/la101enviroart/images/goldsworthy-pepples.jpg
Broken Pebbles

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424197914/andy-goldsworthy---4--dandelion-line-storm-king-sculpture-park-new-york.html
Dandelion line. Storm King Sculpture Park, New York.

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424197845/andy-goldsworthy---2--foxgloves-threaded-onto-stalks-laid-on-bracken-scaur-glen-dumfriesshire.html
Foxgloves threaded onto stalks laid on bracken, Scaur Glen, Dumfriesshire, 1997

Shape - A two-dimensional area or plane that may be organic or inorganic, free-form or geocentric, open or closed, natural or of human origin.

A line defines the inside or outside edge of a shape.

http://stephan.barron.free.fr/technoromantisme/images/goldsworthy_allonge.jpg
Lying down on dry earth while rain begins

Form - A three-dimensional volume or the illusion of three dimensions; related to shape (which is 2-D).

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North Pole Minaret

http://tachedesanglot.hautetfort.com/album/andy_goldsworthy_land_art/goldsworthy-boulder.3.jpg
Boulder covered with flower pedals and leaves

Space - The emptiness or area between, around, above, below, or contained within objects. Shapes and forms are defined by the space around and within them, just as spaces are defined by the shapes and forms around and within them.

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http://community.webshots.com/photo/49936365/49936898niNJnD
Dandelions

Value - Light and dark; the gradations of light and dark on the surface of objects

“Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.” http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andy_goldsworthy.html

Texture - The surface quality of material, either actual (tactile) or visual. - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/art2/guide/glossary.html

 
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Blue and Red Stones

"I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools - a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn." http://www.applebyheritagecentre.org.uk/html/andygold/andygold.html