Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer.
Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white.
By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to (showing 500 of 2069 characters). |
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