Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty was built by pushing 6,650 tons of earth and basalt into the Great Salt Lake, forming a spiral 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide. As massive as the earthwork is,.
Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation
The Concept Behind Spiral Jetty Robert Smithson's inspiration for Spiral Jetty originated from his interest in the concept of entropy and the natural environment. Though, you might be wondering what entropy is, which is simply defined as "disorder" or "randomness" and it is the second law of thermodynamics.
Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty. Great Salt Lake, Utah, USA. 1970
Jonathan Jones Wed 18 Nov 2015 11.20 EST Robert Smithson is one of the most enigmatic artists of the late 20th century. In 1970 he created Spiral Jetty, a snail-like coil of heaped stones.
Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty Turns 50 Art & Object
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty in Red Salt Water (c. 1970) Graphite on paper. 9 x 11 7/8 in. (22.9 x 30.2 cm) Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, Fractional and promised gift of Tony Ganz in memory of Victor and Sally Ganz
Explaining Smithson's Spiral Jetty art Agenda Phaidon
This monumental, 6,000-ton earth work by the late artist Robert Smithson marks its 50th anniversary in 2020. At the start of the pandemic, Spiral Jetty saw an increasing number of visitors.
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Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) is located at Rozel Point peninsula on the northeastern shore of Great Salt Lake. Using over six thousand tons of black basalt rocks and earth from the site, Smithson formed a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide that winds counterclockwise off the shore into the water.
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Spiral Jetty was the first of his pieces to require the acquisition of land rights and earthmoving equipment. He began work on the jetty in April 1970. Construction took six days. In 1970 during the construction of the jetty, Robert Smithson wrote and directed a 32-minute color film, "Spiral Jetty". The film was shot by Smithson and his wife.
Untangling Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty art Agenda Phaidon
The monumental earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970) was created by artist Robert Smithson and is located off Rozel Point in the north arm of Great Salt Lake. Made of black basalt rocks and earth gathered from the site, Spiral Jetty is a 15-foot-wide coil that stretches more than 1,500 feet into the lake.
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Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in 1970 put the modern Earth-art movement in high relief. He left his mark with a massive earthwork sculpture on the northeast edge of the Great Salt Lake. It's 15 feet wide and coils for 1,500 feet near the lake edge. Like much Earth art, Spiral Jetty is a tribute to the daring and imagination of the artist.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty by Rebecca Taylor Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, Rozel Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1500 (if unwound) x 15 foot spiral, basalt, sand, and soil ©Holt-Smithson Foundation. Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. A monument to paradox and transience
Spiral Jetty Holt/Smithson Foundation
Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973). 16 mm film on video, color, sound; 35 min. Louis D. Kacalieff, MD, Fund, 2020.266. Spiral Jetty is one of the best-known works associated with the 1960s and '70s movement Land art. A branch of Conceptual art from that period, Land art encompasses work made and sited in the landscape with natural materials.
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Coiling out into the Great Salt Lake, 1,500 feet long, 15 feet wide, the Jetty was built in 1970 by an artist named Robert Smithson, one of a number of artists at the time who tried to change how.
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 This piece by Smithson is the classic example of an
Smithson, Spiral Jetty By Rebecca Taylor Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 (Great Salt Lake, Utah) (photo: Gianfranco Gorgoni) ©Holt-Smithson Foundation A monument to paradox and transience
‘Spiral Jetty’ Is Named an Official State Work of Art by Utah State METALOCUS
Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970 that is considered to be the most important work of American sculptor Robert Smithson. Smithson documented the construction of the sculpture in a 32-minute color film also titled Spiral Jetty.
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The Source of Robert Smithson's Spiral. By Robert Sullivan. June 18, 2014. In 1959, Robert Smithson, a young abstract painter who would eventually become known as a pioneer of land art, went.