Just as climate shapes the kind of art being made, climate also of course shapes art itself-because art is both of the world and in it. often to preserve valued works and structures, communities must frequently rebuild them. Today we look at the great mosque of Djenne, Ise shrine in Japan and Venice.
Art has long captured the tremendous beauty of earth and its climate, as well as its variability and our powerlessness to it. The things humans make come from the earth and are also highly susceptible to it. Art can help reveal the world around us, frame it, amplify it and also highlight our precarious relationship to it. Today we take a look at some paints that capture these expression of the earth and look back to see how people from the past have made artwork and objects that speak to it in some way
Captain Planet explains to the president the costly effects of keeping a power planet that spews carbon dioxide on and shows the dangerous life of a world altered by climate change. The president is also shown Venus a true green house gas planet, showing how the Earth could possibly become an overheated planet incapable of sustaining life.