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Some themes connecting Andy Goldsworthy's art to Romanticism

Early Morning Calm Knotweed StalksEarly morning calm
knotweed stalks
pushed into lake bottom
made complete by their own reflections
Derwent Water, Cumbria
20 Feb. & 8-9 March 1988
(Goldsworthy on Lake District)
Goldsworthy on:
 Place
 Lake District
Bracken, Driftwood, Slate, Plane Leaves
Bracken, Driftwood, Slate & Plane Leaves, Cumbria, Japan, Dumfriesshire, France, 1987-88
Place
Pebbles Around a Hole
Pebbles around a hole
Kiinagashima-Cho, Japan
7 Dec. 1987
Rowan Leaves
Rowan leaves laid around hole
collecting the last few leaves
nearly finished
dog ran into hole
started again made in the shade on a windy,sunny day
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton
25 Oct. 1987
In Around Beyond

Sand
brought to an edge
to catch the morning light
Mount Victor Station, South Australia
17-18 July 1991
Goldsworthy on:
"In"
 Holes
Turner & Constable
Poppy Leaves Wrapped Around a Boulder
Poppy petals
wrapped around a boulder
held with water
Sidobre, France
6 June 1989
Scale
Goldsworthy on:
 Small & Large
Iris Blades Pinned Together Iris blades pinned together with thorns filled in five sections with rowan berries
fish attacking from below difficult to keep all the berries in
nibbled at by ducks
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton 29 Aug. 1987
Transcience Process
Slate Stack
Slate stack
cracking and shifting as it became heavier
Little Langdale, Cumbria, July 1986
Walter De Maria - Lightning Field
Walter De Maria, Lightning Field
New Mexico, 1977
Goldsworthy on:
 Change
Constable
Beach Tree Snowball
Beech tree snowball
Scaur Glen, Dumfriesshire
18 March 1994
Performance / Autobiography
Richard Long, Walking a Line in Peru
Richard Long, Walking a Line in Peru
Nazca Plain, Peru, 1972
Heysham Head , Lancashire
Heysham Head, Lancashire
Feb. 1977
Goldsworthy on:
 Goldsworthy
Lay Down As It Started RainingLay down as it started raining or snowing
waited until the ground became wet or covered before getting up
[Various Sites] Japan, Cumbria, Holland, The Borders 1984-1988

 

 




J. M. W. Turner

Snow Storm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps
(1812, oil on canvas, 57 x 93")

Crossing the Brook
(1815, oil on canvas, 76 x 65")

Regulus
(1828-29, oil on canvas, 35.25 x 48.75")		  

Shade and Darkness:
The Evening of the Deluge
(1843, oil on canvas, 31 x 30.75")
Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) - The Morning After the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis
(1843, oil on canvas, 31 x 31")



John constable

View on the Stour, 1810
View on the Stour
oil on canvas, 1810
Cloud StudyCloud Study with Tree Tops & Building
oil on paper
(inscribed on back: "Sep. 10,1821, Noon. gentle Wind at West. very sultry after a heavey shower with thunder. accumulated thunder clouds passing slowly away to the south East. very bright & hot. all the foliage sparking and wet")
Study of Trees, c. 1821

Study of Trees
pencil on trimmed wove paper, c. 1821
Dedham Vale

Ded ham Vale
oil on canvas, 1828

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