RIP, Christo

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The environmental/monumental artist has passed away at his home in NYC at age 84. He is survived by his son Cyril. The artist’s wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009.

A number of ongoing projects will be completed posthumously, including the wrapping of Paris’ Arc de Triomphe sometime in 2021.

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stringertom said:
The environmental/monumental artist has passed away at his home in NYC at age 84. He is survived by his son Cyril. The artist’s wife and collaborator Jeanne-Claude passed away in 2009.

A number of ongoing projects will be completed posthumously, including the wrapping of Paris’ Arc de Triomphe sometime in 2021.

@Tennease
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Monumental artist means an artist who is humongous?
 
Sorry, I love art but this one didn't click for me. If you're feeling bad, at least know that he did make a mark!
 
I was in Berlin when the Reichstag was covered in silver fabric, in 1995. I thought it was going to be stupid, lame and most of all pointless. It was actually pretty cool. It wasn't a lifechanging event, but it did open my eyes to the fact that art can be what we want it to be, and everything doesn't have to be "meaningful" to have a meaning.

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Tennis_Hands said:
I will be there to see the the Arc de Triomphe project. An amazing artist, most humble and always letting his work be interpreted as far as people understand it. Famous for his answer to the question what he thinks his art means: "it doesn't mean anything".
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Maybe Christo’s surviving collaborators will see fit to wrap the Tennis_Hands that have created so many great moments on TTW.
 
stringertom said:
Maybe Christo’s surviving collaborators will see fit to wrap the Tennis_Hands that have created so many great moments on TTW.
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Heh, moments only become great when they are earned and shared. I think that that was also Christo's view about what his work was about: his creative process was (at least to him) part of his artistic expression, and subsequently gave a context to his works that goes beyond the visual/tactile. In a sense it was the artwork. To my amusement, much like his artwork, virtual content can and does disappear. I think I did something akin to that philosophy for a period of time here (not that I pretend to have created anything meaningful, but still channeling my inner Christo :D ). It is a very liberating experience. Again, another similarity with what he previously thought about the purpose of his artwork.
 
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Tennis_Hands said:
Heh, moments only become great when they are earned and shared. I think that that was also Christo's view about what his work was about: his creative process was (at least to him) part of his artistic expression, and subsequently gave a context to his works that goes beyond the visual/tactile. In a sense it was the artwork. To my amusement, much like his artwork, virtual content can and does disappear. I think I did something akin to that philosophy for a period of time here (not that I pretend to have created anything meaningful, but still channeling my inner Christo :D ). It is a very liberating experience. Again, another similarity with what he previously thought about the purpose of his artwork.
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To change a viewer’s perception of reality is the hallmark of any decent artist’s claim for relevance. You have certainly achieved that measure many times for those that pay attention around here.
 
Avatar that I sported for a time:

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What an inspiration. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

Godspeed.
 
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