Between Art and Landscape: Roberto Burle Marx (1909-94)

Roberto Burle Marx was Brazil's most influential landscape artists and is internationally recognized as the "creator of the modern garden".
A painter, designer and self taught botanist, Burle Marx treated the landscape as a living work of art.

Burle Marx's tapestries, on view at Paco Imperial museum

Garden Design Seanz Pena Square, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948


Garden Design Plan, Duque de Caxias Square Rio de Janeiro 1948


Site Plan of Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953


Detail 5, Ibrirapuera Park Project, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1953

Just a few of Burle Marx's realized works

Brazil's Civic Square






Terrace garden rio de Janeiro


Brazil

A passionate proponent of Brazillian native flora and fauna Burle Marx is also recognized for his discovery of some thirteen plants that bear his name, see my 5 selected below.

Heliconia hirsuta 'Burle Marx'

Calathea burle-marxii

Neoregelia burle-marxii


Philodendron 'Burle-Marx'


Begonia 'Burle Marx'

Parisian photograffeur JR

The work of Parisian photographer and street artist JR

"Women are Heroes"
Here JR visits the slums of Kenya where he covered 2000m2 of rooftops with the images of the women who live there.







JR at the Tate Modern London


Rio de Janiero




London




Ile Saint-Louis, Paris

for more JR visit jr-art.net

great interview with JR here via The Guardian

art made by walking in landscapes. photographs of sculptures made along the way. walks made into text works.

"Art as a formal and holistic description of the real space and experience of landscape and its most elemental materials" Richard Long. Artist.

Cornish Slate Cross
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007



Furth of Forth Mud Arc
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007

England 1968

White Chapel Slate Circle
White Chapel Art Gallery London 1981



Five Paths
New Art Centre Roche Court England 2002



River Po Line
Italy 2001



Hemisphere Circle
Tokyo 1968



Six Paths
Dialogue: Richard Long / Jivya Soma Mashe
Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf 2003



Walking a Line in Peru 1972




Stone Line
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Edinburgh 2007

Richard long.org

Interesting article here with Long via the Telegraph.co.uk

Vertical Garden Concept Yates Street Victoria BC

bastion square parkade

The Bastion Square Parkade has recently added a series of native plant profiles to each of its parking levels.

Each level contains a circular panel which includes an image with the latin and common name of the chosen plant species.


This is a great educational tool for the public but why stop at simple signage.....why not increase urban biodiversity, see below for a street level sketch of my green facade concept.