# Andy Goldsworthy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895 "2002-08-21T10:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/1 "2002-08-21T10:31:24Z")
If you’ve never seen any of his art, run a google search or see if they have one of his books at your local B&N. I would kill to go to a show of his- if he does any. Just the coolest stuff I have ever seen. Maybe I’m a nature hugging hippie, but it’s soooo damn cool. ---
**Author:** ![Babar714](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Babar714](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babar714)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/2 "2002-08-21T10:54:08Z")
Okay, he does do shows. [www.hainesgallery.com/AG.work.html](http://www.hainesgallery.com/AG.work.html) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/3 "2002-08-21T11:02:19Z")
He is absolutely my favourite contemporary artist. Fantastic. Doesn’t mean you’re a hippy if you appreciate a unique aesthetic. ---
**Author:** ![CMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CMC)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/4 "2002-08-21T14:56:01Z")
Goldsworthy is great. His work always reminds me of Situationist International stuff. Yet is so isolated, it is hard just to “happen” across. Though I would love to someday. Charles Simonds is another artist I admire. He makes tiny installations out of natural substances (mostly clay) and he used to leave them around in urban locations, though I think he does mostly gallery work now. ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/5 "2002-08-21T14:59:15Z")
He’s fantastic. Made me want to go out and rearrange rocks in the nearby woods. Are there other artists following his methods, or expanding upon them? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/6 "2002-08-21T15:08:45Z")
Yeah, I have seen other people ripping him o… I mean following his methods. Can’t remember any names tho. ---
**Author:** ![CMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CMC)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/7 "2002-08-21T15:27:15Z")
You might want to check out Magdelena Abakanowicz. Her work is more figurative than Goldsworthy’s and very haunting. ---
**Author:** ![CMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CMC)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/8 "2002-08-21T15:31:36Z")
Sorry, i’ve seen it spelled both Magdalena and Magdelena ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/andy-goldsworthy/124895/9 "2002-08-21T16:20:19Z")
Thanks for the Abakanowicz tip, I’ll have a look. The other thing that’s appealing about Goldsworthy is that somehow he’s captured the spirit of the artifacts that prehistoric people created. I look at Lascaux, and … nothing … I look at Goldsworthy, and suddenly I understand.