Environmental art

The term environmental art refers to a variety of creative endeavors that include more contemporary ecological and political works as well as historical artistic responses to nature.

The focus of environmental art has shifted from formal concerns such as employing the soil as a sculpture material for massive earthworks to a deeper examination of systems, processes, and occurrences in connection to societal problems.
Integrated social and ecological methods arose in the 1990s as a morally-restorative position. As the social and cultural implications of climate change have gained attention, environmental art has emerged as a major feature in exhibits all over the world throughout the last 10 years.Although it is not exclusive to "ecological" issues, the phrase "environmental art" frequently refers to them.
It mainly honors the relationship between an artist and nature via the use of natural materials.
The idea makes the most sense when considered in the context of historical earth/Land art and the developing discipline of ecological art.
The fact that environmental artists include concepts from philosophy and science makes the area multidisciplinary.
The activity includes critical social forms of creation as well as new and old media.
The work encompasses a wide variety of landscape/environmental circumstances, including urban/rural industrial, suburban/rural, and rural.
Generally speaking, a variety of creative activities and creations "that explore and respond to issues related to the environment, climate change, and ecological sustainability" are referred to as "eco-art" or "environmental art.
However, ecological art, or ecoart, tends to refer more specifically to an artistic discipline or practice that proposes paradigms sustainable with the life forms and resources of our planet in more technical and academic contexts.
It is made up of activists, scientists, philosophers, and artists who are committed to ecological art practices.
Earthworks, Land Art, and landscape painting and photography are examples of historical precursors. Ecoart is characterized by its emphasis on the interrelationships and systems found in the ecological, geographic, political, biological, and cultural aspects of our surroundings.
Ecoart raises awareness, encourages conversation, and modifies behavior in people.
 
There are many different ways to create ecoart, such as realistic works of art that use objects and imagery to emphasize environmental issues, remediation initiatives that clean up contaminated areas, activist projects that involve people and spur behavior and/or policy changes; time-based social sculptures that involve communities in landscape monitoring and sustainable practices; ecopoetic projects that inspire healing and coexistence with other species through a re-imagining and enchantment with the natural world; artworks created via direct encounters with natural elements like sunshine, water, weather, or vegetation; educational artworks that disseminate knowledge about ecological issues and environmental injustice, such as soil and water contamination and health risks; relational aesthetics centered upon sustainable, off-grid, permaculture lives.
 
The question of whether ecological art belongs in the same category as environmental art or should be treated as a separate field within the arts is one that ecoartists explore and debate. "Ecological art is an art practice that embraces an ethic of social justice in both its content and form/materials," according to the EcoArtNetwork's current definition of the term.
 
Ecoart is meant to provoke thought, foster compassion and respect, and promote the long-term health of the natural and social contexts in which we live.
 
It frequently takes the form of activist, community-based restorative, interventionist, or socially conscious art. 
Over 400 creative practitioners involved in ecological art forms from many disciplines come together as part of the worldwide network ArtTech NatureCulture, which declares: "In precarious times, how can we build new ways forward that challenge and transform?"