ROLES OF THE ARTIST

Record the World Around Them

Albert Bierstadt The Rocky Mountains (oil painting) 1863

Georgia O’Keefe Black Mesa Landscape 1930

Give Visible Tangible Form to Ideas, Philosophies, Feelings

Wu Chen Hermit Fisherman on Lake(ink handscroll)

1330

Taoism

Give Visible Tangible Form to Hidden, Universal Truths

Sunfly Tjampitjin Men’s Law (acrylic painting)

1989

Dreamtime

Sunfly Tjampitjin Men’s Law (acrylic painting)

1989

Provide New, Innovative Ways of Seeing Things

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty (earthwork) 1970

Andy Goldsworthy(earthwork) 1987

Christo & Jeanne Claude Umbrellas 1984-91

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