Christo & Jeanne-Claude

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are two artist, whose speciality was to cover thing up. This might sound weird, but I have some examples to show you it was actually really pretty! I think their best project was when they "covered up" Little Bay in Australia. Here's a black and white photo of the project being worked on.



The man in the picture is Christo himself. He payed for this project by selling the drawings he had made and collages. They used 100.000 square metres of polypropylen tissue. Here is a photo of the finished work.



It is a very different project, I wonder where they got the idea from. I do see the "logic" behind it. Once you cover something up, people become more interested in it. As you see the shape of the rocks are still very visible.
Another one of their projects took place in America. it was called the 'Surrounded Islands'. The durrounded the islands in the Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, with pink polypropylen tissue. Here is a sketch of the design.



The sketch looks beautiful and may I say that they he drew an amazing picutre. This project was finished on May 7, 1983. They had surrounded 11 islands, with the pink polypropylen covering the surface of the water, floating and extending out 61 meters from each island. The fabric was woven in a way that each piece fitted the island perfectly. This is how it looked!



They had a lot of other projects, including covering up the Reichstag in Berlin. I however want to show you another. This one was in Paris, where they wrapped the Pont Neuf from 1975-85. This time they covered it up in yellow fabric. It looked beautiful.


Doesn't it look amazing?





I wish I had been around to visit some of their projects. i do realyl like the idea. Hope you did as wel.

I took photos from the book 'Christo & Jeanne-Claude' by Jacob Baal-Thesuva.