Christo javacheff
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Christo – Biography, Legacy, Famous Paintings
Christo – Biography, Legacy, Famous Paintings
Christo’s artistic career spans decades and styles, but he left an indelible mark on the artistic community.
Christo was something of a force of nature, using his creative spirit and determination to build art projects that required tons of logistics and planning.
What made these pieces even more astonishing is that so much work went into something that was only temporary.
It’s almost impossible to talk about the environmental artist Christo without mentioning his wife Jeanne-Claude. The duo had made art installations together from 1958 until Jeanne-Claude died in 2009.
Even though Christo was an artist before and after meeting his wife, the pair made such a splash that they’re often mentioned together, as if they were the same person.
Fortunately, Christo’s legacy is not temporary, and people will continue to discuss and dissect his work for generations to come.
Biography
Early Life
Christo was born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Gabrovo, Bulgaria
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Summary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo's early education in Soviet Socialist Realism, and his experience fleeing his home as a refugee of political revolution, informed his career's numerous forays into real-world politics as a primary subject and source of his artmaking. His 35-year collaboration with his wife and fellow artist, Jeanne-Claude, and the large-scale installation works they co-authored, stand out as some of the greatest achievements in early site-specific art. Together, the duo created monumentally-scaled sculptures and interventions which often utilized the technique of draping or wrapping large portions of existent landscapes, buildings, and industrial objects with specially engineered fabric. While they often insisted that the aesthetic properties of their art constituted its primary value, reactions from audiences and critics worldwide have long recognized a broader commentary operating across their work, and themes ranging from environmental degradation, to the vexed history of the 20th century and the Cold War, to the perseverance of democratic and hum
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Christo
1935
Christo: American Bulgarian-born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, June 13, Gabrovo, of a Bulgarian industrialist family.
Jeanne-Claude: American, French-born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935, Casablanca, of a French military family, educated in France and Switzerland.
1952
Jeanne-Claude. Baccalaureat in Latin and Philosophy, University of Tunis.
1953-56
Christo: Studies at Fine Arts Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1957
He studies one semester at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy.
1958
Christo arrives in Paris where he meets Jeanne-Claude.
Packages and Wrapped Objects
1960
Birth of their son, Cyril, May 11. Cyril Christo is a poet. He studied at Cornell University and graduated from Columbia University in 1982. Five books of his poems have been published. In 1998 he married Marie B. Wilkinson. Their son Lysander Christo was born September 22, 2005.
1961
Project for the Wrapping of a Public Building
Stacked Oil Barrels, Dockside Packages at Cologne Harbor. Tarpaulin and rope.
Duration: 2 weeks. Their first collaboration.
1962
Iron Curtai
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