"Secular, Grotesque, Humor, Mystery"-The Study On Aesthetic Category Of Martha Schwarz’s Landscape Design

After the beginning of the second half of the twentieth century, the Western landscape architects are beginning to realize the closely relationship between landscape design and art,also realize the landscape architecture is a discipline with aesthetic nature. With the rise of postmodernism, the new generation of landscape architects noted the long-standing history of landscape aesthetic history which had been behind long western landscape history.Landscape designers started looking for inspiration from the art, and gardens are increasingly showing works of artistic expression diversity exhibit different from the traditional aesthetic forms. Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect in these representative one.Martha Schwartz studied art in the early time, attracted to Earth Art. She thinks artists of Earth Art pay attention to the land itself that can be used as an expression of emotions, thoughts and ideas. Martha acutely aware that many areas of landscape design and the way that can be taken to reach beyond the general art, this understanding allows Martha turned to the field of landscape architecture. Later Martha Schwartz continues to focus on the Earth Art and Pop Art, Minimalist Art and other artistic trends and the impact of postmodernism, aesthetic thinking.These artistic trends also deeply influenced Martha, Therefore Martha Schwartz usually perform designing though views of art.Her works reflect a unique aesthetic taste and aesthetic form, also has obvious characteristics of post-modernism, the art of the landscape design is undoubtedly the invasion and aesthetic affront to the traditional garden. Therefore, the study of this paper, Martha Schwartz Landscape aesthetic aspects of the work, make a foundation on aesthetic theory, postmodern aesthetic ideas and artistic ideas."secular "," grotesque "," humor "," mystery " is reflected in this basis Martha Schwartz landscape design’s the most typical aesthetic category. These studies raise aesthetic category, reflected in the works of Martha’s garden, which reflects the aesthetic characteristics and aesthetic with a deep understanding of the relationship between art and landscape, aesthetic thought and aesthetic landscape.In this way, landscape aesthetic has raised important new areas of meaning, but also reflects a high value on how Chinese aesthetic categories reflect on the garden.