Monumental agro creativity or art in the field
12.02.2013
To see pictures of Stan Herd, you take off in an airplane. For over 30 years, American artist in the literal sense of the word plow in the field of fine art, and then otkapyvaya new techniques. The author describes an unusual agricultural creativity "earthworks» («Earthworks»). Of his drawings in the margins - portraits, still lifes and landscapes.
Future field painter was born in a family of farmers and grew up in a small Kansas town. He received his artistic education, and eventually realized that most enjoys writing monumental canvases. And once, when Stan Herd flew over the fields on maize, he decided to paint on a new "canvas". With the "brush" was not a problem: Stan Herd raised on a farm, so good with tractors and other agricultural equipment.
In fact, to learn agrozhivopisi, Stan Herd spent about four years. Now, 35 years later, 60-year-old Stan Herd - a recognized and experienced field artist.
Like any other paintings, drawings in the margins begin with sketches: Stan Herd puts circuit bricks. Then the artist made to dig and plow the land, after adding an impromptu canvas ground shades. In order to assess the readiness of drawings in the margins, Stan Herd have to climb up in a balloon.
Among the works of Stan Herd - portraits to order, the image for promotional posters and pictures for the soul.
In Japan, the figures in the fields created by using different varieties of rice. Unusual art form invented 20 years ago, the village farmers Inakadate, immediately became famous throughout the world. Growing in the same field are different varieties of rice planted in a specific pattern, creative farmers in their fields create a full picture, which attract thousands of tourists.
