Working inside, Sol LeWitt, began to create large wall drawings for specific places. In the 1960s and early 1970s a number of artists turned their attention to making site-specific paintings, drawings and sculptures and many of them became interested in the environment, the sometimes powerful and sometimes subtle forces of nature, and the earth as a medium for their artistic expression. It is assumed by many that they had some ancestral significance to the those who worked on them. Ancient people in various parts of the world built mounds from earth and in doing so inscribed designs on the ground. These works of art use the earth as the medium and either bring elements of the earth inside or use outside elements as the medium for works that are site-specific.Įarthworks also have a long history before the twentieth century. A good example of a historical site-specific work of art is the Sistine Chapel ceiling, located in the Vatican in Rome and painted by Michelangelo during the 16th century.
Certainly, most large buildings are designed for specific places and works commissioned on or in those buildings are also site specific. Such art had a long history before the twentieth century, usually in relation to architecture or as architecture itself. Site-Specific Art is art that has been designed and built for a specific place. This video shows the construction and a walk within an Earthworks.
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