Andy Goldsworthy's, Rivers and Tides: Movie Review
In the movie Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, the artist starts out by creating a master piece made from nothing but objects found in nature. I love the way he used a pool of water as a canvas and used different brightly colored leaves as his paint. The composition of the leaves makes it appear like a bright wave of the color fall. He arranged them in such a way that the colors blended together to create one piece, giving it the optical mixing effect. His medium of art is the natural surrounding wherever he may be. If he were somewhere cold, it would be ice he would use. If it were hot, he would use rocks or branches as his medium. He never brought any materials with him to help him if it was difficult to do. He didn’t even use glue or rope, things to bind the medium together. He would use snow and water for ice, or nothing at all when it came to sticks. Most of his pieces in the video were curvilinear. He stated that he was in love with the movements of the water has the rivers flowed in a curved pattern. None of his pieces were anthropomorphic though. He saw nature as it was and created his own image of it. One of his pieces to me resembled effigy. He took broken pieces of icicles and stuck them to a rock sticking out of the ground. It resembled the free flowing river going through the frozen icy ground, going through the rock itself. It turned out better then he thought it would and to me the light was just perfect as it shined on both sides of the rock, illuminating the ice. It had a kinetic sense to it, almost as if the frozen water was going through the solid rock. All of his works have mass to them. To me, the more he takes interest in the idea of the artwork, the more three-dimensional it turns out to be. He creates asymmetry when he takes the branches and logs to make a hollow dome. Not using anything but the branches themselves, he slowly started to build the walls of the dome to where there was only a small hole in the top of it. He picked a