Artistic Collaboration II
Christo and Jean-Claude
Christo was born in Bulgaria
Jeanne-Claude was born in Morocco
They are a married couple who create environmental installation art.
They were born on the same date - 13 June 1935.
The first collaboration was created in 1961.
Style of their artworks
their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale.
The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to make the world a "more beautiful place" or to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes.
They emphasized that their projects didn’t contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic.
The Gates
Reason of creating “the Gates”
The architects surrounded the park with a stone wall,leaving entrances to the park at each interruption in the wall, where a walkway starts, those entrances are called Gates.
They had planned to install steel gates to lock the park at night.
The city hired a designer for those gates, but Mr. Olmstead disliked the complicated design and decided that there would be no closing gates, however the name gates remained. Many of these park entrances have names: Mariners Gate; Boys and Girls Gate; Artists Gate; Emigrants Gate; Explorers Gate; Inventors Gate...
“The Gates” was completed with the blooming of the 7,503 fabric panels on February 12, 2005.
7503 gates
16 feet (487 meters) tall
width from 5 feet 6 inches to 18 feet (1,68 to 5,48 meters) according to the 25 different widths of walkways, on 23 miles (37 kilometers) of walkways in Central Park
spaced at 12 foot (3,65 meter)
The gates and the fabric panels were seen from far away
The weaving and sewing of the fabric panels were done in Germany.
The work remained for 16 days, then the gates were removed and recycled after that.
Darft of “the Gates”
Map and view of “the Gates”
My opinion
This is a work that very straight forward and simple to express the natural beauty.
It makes the environment nearby the park to be more comfortable.
I agree that the artists’ concept, there are no need to involve any deeper meaning, it just can be sensed to be an art, beauty and it can give joy to people, then this is a successful work of art.
Discussion
Is “the Gates” an art? Why?
What do think that the meaning or the visual feathers is more important for an artwork?
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