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Nef pour quatorze reines by Rose-Marie Goulet, a memorial to the École Polytechnique Massacre, featuring sculptural elements integrated into a specially landscaped site
Nef pour quatorze reines by Rose-Marie Goulet, a memorial to the École Polytechnique Massacre, featuring sculptural elements integrated into a specially landscaped site

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, occurred on December 6 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land including but not limited to living elements, such as In Fine art, a work of art (or artwork or work) is a creation such as a Song, Book, Film, Video game, Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.

Outdoor site-specific artworks often include landscaping combined with permanently sited sculptural elements (the movement is linked with Environmental art). Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land including but not limited to living elements, such as Outdoor site-specific artworks also include dance performances created especially for the site; the choreographer uses the site as inspiration for costumes and movement repertoire. Some artists make a point of commissioning music created by a local composer especially for the dance site. Indoor site-specific artworks may be created in conjunction with (or indeed by) the architects of the building. An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction

More broadly, the term is sometimes used for any work that is (more or less) permanently attached to a particular location. In this sense, a building with interesting architecture could be considered a piece of site-specific art. The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation Artists producing site-specific works include Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, Rowan Gillespie,Christo, Richard Serra, Guillaume Bijl, Betty Beaumont and younger artists like Mark Divo, John K. Melvin, Leonard van Munster, Luna Nera, Simparch, Sarah Sze, Stefano Cagol and Seth Wulsin. Robert Smithson ( January 2, 1938 – July 20, 1973) was an American Artist famous for his Land art. Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956 is a British sculptor, Photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces Rowan Fergus Meredith Gillespie (born 1953 is an Irish Bronze casting sculptor of international renown Christo (born as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев and Jeanne-Claude (born as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon Richard Serra (born November 29, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and Video artist known for working with large Guillaume Bijl, born in Antwerp in 1946 is a Belgian Installation artist Bijl's first installation was a driving school set in a gallery-space in Artist Betty Beaumont (born 1946 in Toronto Canada) lives and works in New York City, New York. Mark Divo (born 1966 is a Luxemburgeois Conceptual artist and Curator who organises large scale Interactive art projects incorporating the work John K Melvin (born May 9, 1976) is a Conceptual artist working with installations. Leonard van Munster (born February 1972 Zwolle) is a Dutch contemporary artist making Site-specific and Subject-specific work Luna Nera is a collaborative group of international artists who make Site-specific artworks Members of Luna Nera have exhibited in a number of venues ranging from disused buildings SIMPARCH is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces New Mexico in 1996 Sarah Sze (born 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American Artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge Stefano Cagol ( Trento, September 11, 1969) is an Italian Contemporary artist He works with video, photography and installation Seth Wulsin (born April 15, 1981) was born in Spring Valley, New York.

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The term environmental sculpture is variously defined A development of the art of the 20th century environmental Sculpture usually creates or alters the environment Land Art, Earthworks or Earth Art is an art movement which emerged in America in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which landscape and the work of art Public Art Fund Nancy Rubins by David ShankboneJPG|thumb| Public Art Fund -financed Nancy Rubins sculpture in the middle of Lincoln Center]] Plop art' is a pejorative The term Environmental Art is used in two different senses The term can be used generally to refer to art dealing with ecological issues and/or the natural, such as the formal the Greenmuseumorg is a Nonprofit online Museum of Environmental art.
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