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In 1973 [[Jacek Tylicki]] begins to lay out blank canvases or paper sheets in the natural environment for the nature to create art.

 

 

Land artists in America relied mostly on wealthy [[patron]]s and [[private foundation]]s to fund their often costly projects. With the sudden economic downturn of the mid-1970s, funds from these sources largely stopped. With the death of Robert Smithson in a plane crash in 1973, the movement lost one of its most important figureheads and faded out. Charles Ross continues to work on the ''[[Star Axis]]'' project, which he began in 1971.<ref name="Hass18">Hass, Nancy. [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/t-magazine/longterm-art-projects.html "What Happens When a Single Art Project Becomes a Decades-Long Obsession?,"] ''The New York Times'', September 18, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2022.</ref><ref name="BQ21">Beachy-Quick, Dan. [https://www.artforum.com/slant/dan-beachy-quick-on-charles-ross-s-star-axis-87061 "Cosmic Dancer: Dan Beachy-Quick on Charles Ross’s Star Axis,"] ''Artforum'', October 28, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2022.</ref> Michael Heizer in 2022 completed his work on ''[[City (artwork)|City]]'', and James Turrell continues to work on the ''[[Roden Crater]]'' project. In most respects, "land art" has become part of mainstream [[public art]] and in many cases the term "land art" is misused to label any kind of art in nature even though conceptually not related to the [[avant-garde]] works by the pioneers of land art.