Artist. He was best known for numerous grandiose art pieces produced during a decades long collaborative effort alongside his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. Like fellow contemporaries such as Robert Smithson and Nils Udo, Christo's art sought to interweave art with the environment , blending the synthetic and organic into a work that was aesthetically pleasing to its viewers. The signature technique which was employed by the husband and wife team came to be known as, "wrapping." Using titanic amounts of fabric, Christo and Jeanne-Claude would envelop natural geographic features and architectural sites, enclosing them withing brightly colored materials. The first noted piece which utilized this technique was "Wrapped Coast" in which the city of Sydney Australia's Little Bay was wrapped in over one million square yards of fabric, producing the single largest artwork up to that time. Other major works by Christo included 1984's Pont Neuf bridge wrapping in Paris; 1995's wrapping of the German Reichstag building; and 2005's "The Gates" project in New York City's Central Park. The piece was particularly ambitious as it required over two decades to complete due to bureaucratic red tape. Once approved, the artist and his teams installed several metallic gates along 23 miles of the parks paths. From each gate was unfurled panels of vivid saffron colored fabric panels. The work proved to be as divisive as the entirety of Christo's career, with many critics calling project a defacement of the park's natural beauty, while others praised it as a bright point in the park during its bleak Winter month operations.
Artist. He was best known for numerous grandiose art pieces produced during a decades long collaborative effort alongside his wife and creative partner, Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. Like fellow contemporaries such as Robert Smithson and Nils Udo, Christo's art sought to interweave art with the environment , blending the synthetic and organic into a work that was aesthetically pleasing to its viewers. The signature technique which was employed by the husband and wife team came to be known as, "wrapping." Using titanic amounts of fabric, Christo and Jeanne-Claude would envelop natural geographic features and architectural sites, enclosing them withing brightly colored materials. The first noted piece which utilized this technique was "Wrapped Coast" in which the city of Sydney Australia's Little Bay was wrapped in over one million square yards of fabric, producing the single largest artwork up to that time. Other major works by Christo included 1984's Pont Neuf bridge wrapping in Paris; 1995's wrapping of the German Reichstag building; and 2005's "The Gates" project in New York City's Central Park. The piece was particularly ambitious as it required over two decades to complete due to bureaucratic red tape. Once approved, the artist and his teams installed several metallic gates along 23 miles of the parks paths. From each gate was unfurled panels of vivid saffron colored fabric panels. The work proved to be as divisive as the entirety of Christo's career, with many critics calling project a defacement of the park's natural beauty, while others praised it as a bright point in the park during its bleak Winter month operations.
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