walter de maria

13
Walter De Maria

Upload: jonah

Post on 23-Feb-2016

46 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

DESCRIPTION

Walter De Maria. Early Life. Born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935 Studied history and art at University of California, Berkeley Originally trained as a painter but turned to sculpture and other media. Work. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria

Page 2: Walter De Maria

Early Life

• Born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935• Studied history and art at University of

California, Berkeley• Originally trained as a painter but turned to

sculpture and other media

Page 3: Walter De Maria

Work

• Interest in task-oriented, gamelike projects that resulted in viewer-interactive sculptures

• Developed after seeing the work of La Monte Young and Simone Forti

• Boxes for Meaningless Work

Page 4: Walter De Maria

New York

• Moved to new York in 1960• Early sculptures influenced by Dada and other

art movements• Eventually worked with other materials like

stainless steel and aluminum

Page 5: Walter De Maria

Installations

• Land art projects– The Lightning Field

• Urban works– Vertical Earth Kilometer– The Broken Kilometer

Page 6: Walter De Maria
Page 7: Walter De Maria
Page 8: Walter De Maria

Vertical Earth Kilometer

Page 9: Walter De Maria

The Broken Kilometer

Page 10: Walter De Maria

New York Earth Room

Page 11: Walter De Maria

Interesting Facts

• Musician drummer in Primitives• Artist and musician for The Druds