Ephemeral art

From the beginning, artists have also been scientists. Alchemists who mix their own paint, study the effects of color and learn how we perceive light. Though our scientific understanding is as great as it has ever been, there are still a plethora of artists who continue to use this knowledge to break new ground with […]

A new book captures stunning works by an artist who uses nature, and his own body, as a medium

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Who is the best artist of all? This could be a question that could be the hardest as well as the easiest to answer. Tough because no artist likes to admit that some other artist is better than him or her and easy because the answer is obvious – Mother Nature is the best artist of all! We all know that artists from the beginnings of time have always taken their inspiration from nature and this has always led to some magnificent works of art. In fact taking Mother Nature is a great way to use…

Martin Hill and Philippa Jones create wonderful—but temporary—works of art in remote corners of the globe

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Installed earlier this summer at the Chatham Historic Dockyard, Ephemeral Rays is a new work by artist Charlotte Smith. The piece consists of several hundred lights on filaments that fill a large window of a galvanizing shop. Of the work she shares: Originally installed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Ephemeral Rays depicted the volume of a fleeting ray of light beaming through a window of the Galvanising Shop. Reinstalled at Turner Contemporary the work evolved into a new form; drawing on the…

Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, renowned in his field, that creates temporary installations out of sticks and stones, and anything and everything else that he finds outside. The son of a mathematician, Goldsworthy grew up working on farms before eventually getting his BA from what is now the University of Central Lancashire. "A lot of my work is like picking potatoes," he told the Guardian. "You have to get into the rhythm of it."