Writer Victor Margolin lists three criteria for sustainable ecological art in his article Cultural Sustainability (pp.22-23) Art must engage the land or landscape, respond to social issues, and or incorporate recyclables. Taking art from the mindset of museumology to anthropology via social action is in the power of the popular artist today. (p.26) Margolin sites artist Joseph Beuy's work as "collapsing the boundaries between art and life"(p.27) with his installation of thousands of oak trees planted outdoors. Margolin feels there is the problem of ecological aesthetics to be solved for the art critic if an artist per say created ecological works as opposed to accepting a landscape designers' outdoor work.
I believe that Hidegard Kurt's point of ecological works meeting the needs of creating harmony with natural resources, revealing a social collaboration with the culture of the present to protect and provide for resources for the future's poor epitomizes creation of natural art forms from nature for beauty's sake and thus the artist of today should be involved in this new aesthetic.
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