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The Quintessential Artist

Did you know that 3,100 umbrellas spread across 30 miles of landscape could be considered art? Well it is. This project was titled The Umbrellas, by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1984-91. This is just one example of the many large-scale environmental works of art, called earthworks that Christo has constructed over the past 40-50 years. The purpose of this paper is to inform people about Christo and how he uses context on very large-scale earthworks to symbolize several different views and ideas.
To give a bit of history on the artist, Christo was born on June 13, 1935 in Bulgaria. Fascinated with art, he began drawing and painting at a fairly young age. Christo started out drawing mostly portraits, but as he became more and more well-known as an artist, he began to see more doors opening up for him and more freedom to experiment. Christo met Jeanne-Claude in Paris in 1958 when he was commissioned to paint a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother. By......

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