Ana Mendieta & James Pierce

There is a contrast between an anthropological and a psychological dimension; the primitive contact of nature and society.
We can see this concept in the works of Ana Mendiata and James Pierce.

Anna Mendieta leaves marks in the land with her body, creating a crossover between Land Art and Body Art. A physical link. She incorporates herself and her body into the earth and landscapes she crosses.

On the other hand, James Pierce brings out the idea of the earth as a type of primitive goddess in his pictures. The land is sexualised, suggesting procreation and fertility.

"Earth woman", James Pierce,1976.

 

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Michael Heizer

"Double Negative", Michael Heizer, Northwest of Overton, Nevada, 1969.

Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specialized in monumental sculptures and Land Art. He went to the Art Institut of San Francisco. Born in 1944, he was a part of the Land Art generation with Robert Morris, Nancy Holt, D. Oppenheim, R. Long, Carl André and his wife. The picture is one of his first earthwork, an example of a return to the ancestral, primitive earth.  » Double Negative  » is a displacement of tons of land. The subject shows the fact we can’t identify what has been touch by the hand of men and what it isn’t. It challenges the gap between the naturals deformations against fake ones. Thus it shows the discrepancies of what is related to art’s works, with museum.

"Double Negative", Michael Heizer, Northwest of Overton Nevada, 1969.

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