Nature Based Art

Nature-based art curriculum     Part 1:     WHAT IS ART?   Solicit definitions from assembled classes.   Share this definition......   "Art is anything created by anybody that somebody calls 'art'."   Sooooo....         WHAT IS NATURE-BASED ART?     "Art is anything created by anybody (using objects found in nature) that somebody calls 'art'.....       So ..... Is Stonehenge nature-based art? How about 30,000 year cave paintings? Can a rainbow be art? How about a comet? Or the aurora borealis? No. Art must be made by humans (or the machines they have created!) Part 2: Nature-based art (a by no means comprehensive survey of artists creating in this genre)   Also known as earth art or land art or even earthworks, for larger scale artworks, land-based, nature-based art is an American born, worldwide genre of art.   Originally a branch of conceptual art and minimalism, it really hit its stride in ...