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CHRISTO\

CHRISTO. By: Madison Huddleston Per.3. 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. Paris= Romance.

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CHRISTO\

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  1. CHRISTO\ By: Madison Huddleston Per.3

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 didn’t 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.

  6. 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.”

  7. 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

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