Landscape and Art
Beyond doubt, landscape design is an art. It and other art forms, have a causal link. Modern landscape design from the very beginning, from the lessons of modern art in the form of a rich language. To find expression for the current science, technology and human awareness activities in the form of words and designers, art provides the most direct undoubtedly the most abundant source. Modern art from the early Cubism, Surrealism, style camp, constitute, and later to the minimalist art, Pop Art, every kind of artistic ideas and art forms are provided for landscape designers can draw on the art of thinking and Form of language. Today, the concept of art have taken place in a large change, "the United States" is no longer the purpose of art and the art of evaluation standards.Art forms, endless, pure art and other disciplines of the arts increasingly blurred the line between, artists learn from the film, television, drama, music, architecture, landscape and other creative tactics, such as the creation of the media arts, performance art, art optical effects, Land Art, and so on a series of new art forms, which in turn gave the other arts industry practitioners to great inspiration.
Because of its painting lines, and blocks of color seem to be easily translated into the design of some elements of the floor plan, which has been affecting the development of landscape design, innovative landscape designers have access to modern painting in a lot of inspiration. Carrasquel Square, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Carrascoplein, 1998 completed, Adriaan Geuze design), to grass, asphalt pavement and the white dots on the array of elements on the ground designed a two-dimensional super-realism of the screen, With the singular scene of light, sound and movement of trains, so that this space is a surrealistic mysterious atmosphere.
In pursuit of minimalist style of the American designer known for Peter Walker, in his works on the basis of modern and contemporary art lessons nutrition, both avant-garde novel, yet elegant and generous. In Bailinsuoni Centre (Sony Center, 2000 completed, Peter Walker design), the wealth of indoor and outdoor space for transformation and change is the mysterious landscape designer with a simple plant cultivation and a number of industrial materials such as stainless steel and glass in a simple, repetitive In the form of the mold. Walker and the many works, not only here-in lighting and played the lead role, but also as an art form there. This can be seen clearly in the works of contemporary art such as the minimalist art, art-effects of the impact.
In the second half of the 20th century, the landscape changes and development in the form of the most influential art forms, perhaps the "Land Art." Land Art will be because of the natural environment as a creative place, the use of large-scale, abstract forms and natural materials, and landscape works increasingly close and thus become a landscape designer from the many forms of language, at the same time, artists have also set foot in the area of landscape design, Many works are often landscape division and complete cooperation of artists, this is more of the landscape and promoting the art of sculpture both integration and development, which is now many of the works of landscape design also be considered works of art reasons.Germany Saarbruecken Port Island Park (Bürgpark Hafeninsel, 1989 for completion, Peter Latz design) in World War II were destroyed in the coal transport on the construction of the terminal, designers used on the site of the ruins of rubble, in the park Construction of a large grid network, as the park's skeleton, in order to arouse people's history of the 19th century urban landscape fragments memories. In the bushes in the barren, with rubble piled out of simple geometric shapes, these are some people think of artists such as Richard Long and Robert Smithson's earth works of art.