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PDF (1.1mb)  Who is the artist? Mark Dion What is the name of the artwork? Landfill What materials were used? A diorama made from a shipping crate, old bird feeders, leather shoes, and trash Where is the artist from? United States When was the artwork made? 1999-2000  Mark Dion was born in 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Dion often makes dioramas that are about nature. A diorama is a three-dimensional scene, sometimes inside a box, where things are made to look real, but are actually fake. Large dioramas can be found in museums, like the Natural History Museum. Dion’s dioramas show peoples’ relationships to nature and some of the problems in nature cause by humans. For example, Landfill highlights the problems of pollution and littering.  Landfill is a diorama made inside a wooden shipping crate. Dion placed glass on one side so that you can look inside the box. Inside the diorama, there are fake animals, trash, old birdfeeders, and leather shoes. Dion has placed the animals next to and in the trash to show the ways in which humans can have a bad effect on nature. Our trash is not good for the animals or the environment. For this diorama, Dion used trash that relates to the animal world, such as old bird feeders, leather shoes, and containers of animal food. Can you identify anything else? If you created a diorama about nature, what you would put in it? Do you think that it took the artist a long time to make this diorama? Why? What other items could the artist put in this diorama to show some of the problems between nature and humans?  Diorama - Three-dimensional scene, sometimes inside a box, where things are made to look real, but are actually fake. |
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Mark Dion, United States, born 1961 Landfill Mixed media, 1999-2000 Museum purchase, Contemporary Collectors Funds 2000.4 © Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego  |
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1961 Mark Dion is born in the United States 1975 First skateboard invented 1981
1989 Oil tanker Exxon Valdez crashes in Prince William Sound, causing the largest oil spill in US history 1999-2000 Mark Dion makes Landfill 2003 U.S.-led forces invade Iraq |
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