Dubai have made the first move in relation to creating their own islands with the concept of making them perfect, however artists have been altering and transforming the environment around them for years but not perhaps on the scale in which Dubai have undertaken. Land art is an art movement started in the 1970's in which the primary ideology is that the earth and the art integrate with one another. The earth is changed to suit the purpose of the artist. In the same way that Dubai have altered the land to perfection, and to be visually perfect, land artists have been doing this since the 1970s.
An example of how land can be altered to make it visually perfect is in the work by Robert Smithson. His 1970's work entitled "Spiral Jetty" was arranged with rock, earth and algae so as to form a long (1500 ft) spiral-shape jetty protruding into Great Salt Lake in northern Utah, U.S.
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| Robert Smithson "Spiral Jetty" (1970) |
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