Christo art

Official website of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Features photographs and texts about all major projects, early works, and works in progress. Includes biographical and bibliographical information as well as past, current, and upcoming exhibitions.

Christo- Self Portrait Mummy How is Christo's self portrait similar to an Egyptian mummy? Christo was born in June 13, 1935 in Bulgaria. His wife Jeanne Claude was also born the same day June 13, 1935 in Morocco. Their partnership began in the l960's. They met in l958 when Christo was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jeanne Claude's mother. Jeanne Claude died in November 2009 of a brain aneurysm. Christo is known as a conceptual artist. His wife was quoted to say"...Our art has absolutely…

Property from the collection of Dr Herbert KielCHRISTO1935 - 2009 & 1935 - 2020PAQUETsigned and dated 1961<

Larry Gagosian is the world's richest art dealer owning a total of 12 galleries including three in New York, two in London and others in Paris and Hong Kong.

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***** setting symbol of power lines/telephone pole (community), made relevant as "cross", crucifixion idea

This church is important, built on the base of an early basilica and reconstructed and decorated sometime /b/ 1037 and 1056. "The frescoes, which date from the 11th, 12th, and 13th cent.s belong to the best achievements of medieval art and Byzantine painting of that era", and a gallery of frescoes discovered in the 40s is "the most complete iconographic entity in a single cathedral church dating from the 11th cent." These frescoes were covered and effectively preserved when the Turks…

Christo, the conceptual artist who, together with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, dazzled audiences around the world with monumental temporary installations, died on May 31 at the age of 84 from natural causes. “Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only dreaming up what seemed impossible but realizing it,” a statement from the artist’s office on […]

Rutgers officials removed the controversial art piece from the Art Library in New Brunswick Thursday.

The surrealist artist Man Ray was the first artist to wrap objects as a way of making them strange. Wrapping has the paradoxical effect of concealing an object while accentuating its larger geometry and heightening our curiosity about it, encouraging ...

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VNC008 - Le Hurlement Du Papillon by Too Smooth Christ, Bris Ghin, River Yarra, José Roboter, Munjebel, Elen H, released 19 January 2020 1. Too Smooth Christ - Element 1 2. Bris Ghin - Hidden Trs 3. River Yarra - Oiseau (Body & Earth) 4. José Roboter - Jardins Infinis 5. Munjebel - Handrum 6. Elen H - Woman With No-Name