CHRISTO

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CHRISTO\

• By Madison Huddleston
• Per.3

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Life and schooling

• Christo was born in 1935
• Even as a teenager he knew he wanted to be an
  artist.
• He went to school at Fine Arts Academy in
  Bulgaria 1953-1956
• In 1957 he went to Vienna Fine Arts Academy for
  one semester.

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Paris Romance

• In 1958 Christo went to Paris to start working on
  his art.
• While there he met his wife Jeanne-Claude.
• On May 11, 1960, they had a son.

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FAMOUS ART

• One of Christo's more famous pieces is the Valley
  Curtain. This was done in 1970-1972. It lasted 28
  hrs.
• The surrounded islands were done in 1980-1983.
  This lasted 14 days.

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MORE ART

• Christo did many pieces with oil barrels. This
  project in1999 followed suit. Christo stacked
  13,000 oil barrels creating a giant wall.
• Christo didnt just wrap things or stack them, he
  also stretched umbrellas all across countries. He
  did one in the U.S. with yellow umbrellas, and
  one in Japan with blue.

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QUOTES BY CHRISTO

• we create those works for ourselves and our
  friends, and if the public enjoys it, that is
  only a bonus but that is not created for the
  public.
• if some of our works are symphonies, then
  wrapped walkways was chamber music.

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Bibliography

• -author unknown, Wrapping Nature, Art Man,
  April 27, 2005, pg. 2-3
• -author unknown, Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
  www.christojeanneclaude.net, April 27,2005.
• -author unknown, Christo, Guggenheim Museum,
  www.guggenheim.org, April 26, 2005.
• -Brommer, Gerald, Discovering Art History,
  Worcester, Massachusetts, Davis Publications
  Inc., 1197, pg. 578-579