In recent years, environmentalism has become popular among artists, who have begun to integrate environmental protection concepts into their artistic creations, using some waste garbage as creative materials, thus driving more people to join the ranks of environmental protection. Local materials are the most commonly used creation methods for many environmental protection artists, such as picking up some marine garbage, leaves, small pebbles, etc., so that the artworks created do not require any cost and convey a good concept.
Land art is a kind of art that uses local materials, and in Xiao Dai's view, this way of creating also belongs to the category of environmentalism. In recent years, land art has also been loved by many artists and the public, who use the ground as a canvas to create shocking works of art using stones, leaves and other materials everywhere.
In just a few short years, a large number of talented land artists have emerged, and Justin Bateman is one of them, an artist from the United Kingdom who "paints" on the ground with pebbles of different colors and shapes, creating amazing "temporary" works of art.
Justin Bateman was best at placing portraits, especially figures in classical paintings. Hundreds of stones of different sizes, shapes and colors, in the hands of this artist, seem to become very "obedient", the stones with different shades of color are arranged by him clearly, and the contours of the faces of the characters, the relationship between light and shade, are slowly presented in the artist's little by little patchwork.
Up close, the stone placed by Justin Bateman resembles a mosaic painting, much like some modern works of art, and from a distance, the visual effect is more intense, like an Impressionist painting. In order to create a feeling of "painting", the artist also made a picture frame for each work with fine stones, so that people can see that the patterns he placed from the stones are like hand-painted portraits, just like the paintings of the live sketches.
But painting with stone is much harder than painting with paint, which is why Justin Bateman's work is always shocking. Of course, although his work is beautiful, the beauty is short-lived, and the moment it is completed, it is arranged to be destroyed, which is the general regret of land art.
However, in Justin Bateman's view, the "lifespan" of his work is short- and its impression in people's minds may last a long time. Next, let's enjoy the artist's remarkable work of land art.