Robert Smithson inspired many artists with his diverse style of art. His style was altered, starting with paintings and collages then transforming to sculptures. He is very famous for his Earthwork, also known as Land Art, “The Spiral Jetty, a remarkable coil of rock composed in the colored waters of the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. In 1973, he died in an aircraft accident when he was surveying the site for another Earthwork in Texas”. -the art story. This new style of art was viewed as Post-Minimalism. It intended to eliminate any association with what was considered “traditional” art. Smithson constructed his art sculpture from pieces of material. His main goal was to make the viewer question art and to “confuse the viewer’s understanding of sculpture”-the art story. He wanted to create a relationship between man and landscape. Smithson believed that the best type of earth art to work with and recreate was the one that has already been disrupted by man. 
“Much of Smithson’s output was shaped by his interest in the concept of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics that predicts the eventual exhaustion and collapse of any given system. His interest in geology and mineralogy confirmed this law to him, since in rocks and rubble he saw evidence of how the earth slows and cools. But the idea also informed his outlook on culture and civilization more generally; his famous essay Entropy and the New Monuments (1969) draws analogies between the quarries and the strip malls and tract housing of New Jersey, suggesting that ultimately the later will also perish and return to rubble” -the art story.