<P> Environmental art is a range of artistic practices encompassing both historical approaches to nature in art and more recent ecological and politically motivated types of works . Environmental art has evolved away from formal concerns, worked out with earth as a sculptural material, towards a deeper relationship to systems, processes and phenomena in relationship to social concerns . Integrated social and ecological approaches developed as an ethical, restorative stance emerged in the 1990s . Over the past ten years environmental art has become a focal point of exhibitions around the world as the social and cultural aspects of climate change come to the forefront . </P> <P> The term "environmental art" often encompasses "ecological" concerns but is not specific to them . It primarily celebrates an artist's connection with nature using natural materials . The concept is best understood in relationship to historic earth / Land art and the evolving field of ecological art . The field is interdisciplinary in the fact that environmental artists embrace ideas from science and philosophy . The practice encompasses traditional media, new media and critical social forms of production . The work embraces a full range of landscape / environmental conditions from the rural, to the suburban and urban as well as urban / rural industrial . </P>

Art that depicts forms in the natural world