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Walter is a “reclusive” American Artist, sculptor,
illustrator and composer but I am most interested in his installations.
A lot of his work was only achievable with precise measurements.
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“He realized Land art
projects in the deserts of the southwest US, with the aim of creating
situations where the landscape and nature, light and weather would become an
intense, physical and psychic experience.”
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“It consists of 400 stainless steel
posts arranged in a calculated grid over an area of 1 mile × 1 km. The
time of day and weather change the optical effects. It also lights up during thunderstorms.
The field is commissioned and maintained by Dia Art Foundation, which he was the founding
director of.”
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“The possibility that lightning would
strike the poles was rarely fulfilled, but the piece could look glorious at
dawn or sunset, and its hard-won perfection (all the points of the poles were
at the same level) brought a striking sense of order to the desert.”
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His Use of stainless stele allows him
to attract and ground the lightning to the earth.
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He said that this installation is supposed to
make the viewer think about the earth and how it connects with the universe.
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This piece was really successful in making
viewers feel the connection between the two, and I think that is why this is
his best piece.
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I love this artist’s work, because of how
successfully he communicated the connection between the universe and the earth,
and how he brings order to the chaotic desert in his art.
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“The 2000 Sculpture” (1992), by Walter
De Maria, an example of his groupings of ordered elements using precise
measurements
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He showed me a new way to look at art by,
harnessing uncontrollable elements like lightning.
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He shows the unpredictable side of art that I am
not familiar with.
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Studding his works of art allows me to look at
art through a perspective that I am not used to.
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