Died artist Jeanne-Claude
Wife of the artist Christo has died at age 74
«Afternoon" Christo (Christo), an American artist of French origin Jeanne-Claude (Jeanne-Claude) died on November 18 in New York. Cause of death - complications of aneurysm rupture of cerebral blood vessels. The artist was 74 года.
Yavashev Christo and Jeanne-Claude de Dana Giyebon born in one day - June 13, 1935, but in different places: he is in the Bulgarian town of Gabrovo, she - in Casablanca. They met in 1958 in Paris. Then Jeanne-Claude have already had a boyfriend, whom she eventually married - but the marriage did not last long: after the honeymoon she went to Christ. In 1962, the artists undertook its first major project: to protest against the Berlin Wall, they barricaded with barrels from the Paris streets. Two years later they moved to New York.
visiting card, so to speak, "Mona Lisa" Christo and Jeanne-Claude is the project "wrapped Reichstag" (1995 ), in which artists silver cloth draped the building of the German parliament. Among other facilities, which had managed to "pack" spouses - Kunsthalle Bern (1968), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1969) and Pont Neuf in Paris (1985). Artists worked with landscape: in 1969 they were wrapped in cloth section of the beach in Australia, and in 1976 decorated the hills of Northern California's 40-kilometer fence tissue. One of the most ambitious projects, Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Surrounded Islands ": artists okaymili pink cloth 11 artificial islands near Miami. And in 2005, the couple set up in Central Park in New York 7.5 thousand gates with bright orange curtains. During those 15 days that the installation had been in town, it has come to see about a million people.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always financed their projects themselves. The main source of income of the spouses was the sale of sketches and other preparatory materials. In fact, to save up money for the project and obtain all necessary permits from the authorities, artists are sometimes needed for many years. "Compress" Reichstag they came up with as much in 1971, and carry venture has only a quarter of a century later.
Many years ago, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have promised each other that in case of death of one of them will not leave the other arts. At the moment the main project is Christo Over the River ( «Over the River"): they Jeanne-Claude have decided to curtain off the silver cloth area Arkansas River in Colorado. It is expected that work will be completed in 2013.
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