Christo And Jeanne-Claude
The Interaction of Art and Society through the Artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Our natural curiosity as human beings is what drives us further into the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The large scale of the project works as a catalyst to the art, as it is what draws our attention. We start by noticing this disturbance in our regular lives, and we continue by looking and observing even more. Eventually this leads to a deeper understanding, as the viewers try to remember what the object looked like before it was transformed by the artwork. With their art Christo and Jeanne-Claude get people thinking about what they have taken for granted on a daily basis. The scale is not the main point of the artwork, but it does however catch the eye of a passer by and their response to the work of art is the defining feature for such projects. …show more content…
It teaches us appreciation and we find greater value as Jeanne-Claude said in an interview, “also the temporary character, some people ask us, ‘But how come everybody rushes to see your project,’ and I always give the comparison, ‘If I told you, right there, up in the corner in the sky there is a rainbow, you will never answer, ‘I’ll look at it tomorrow.’ So there is an urgency to rush to it and to come and enjoy it.” (Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Albert Maysles) The projects last within our attention span, where we still find it interesting every time we see it, but just as suddenly as it came, it has gone, which only increases our
Our natural curiosity as human beings is what drives us further into the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The large scale of the project works as a catalyst to the art, as it is what draws our attention. We start by noticing this disturbance in our regular lives, and we continue by looking and observing even more. Eventually this leads to a deeper understanding, as the viewers try to remember what the object looked like before it was transformed by the artwork. With their art Christo and Jeanne-Claude get people thinking about what they have taken for granted on a daily basis. The scale is not the main point of the artwork, but it does however catch the eye of a passer by and their response to the work of art is the defining feature for such projects. …show more content…
It teaches us appreciation and we find greater value as Jeanne-Claude said in an interview, “also the temporary character, some people ask us, ‘But how come everybody rushes to see your project,’ and I always give the comparison, ‘If I told you, right there, up in the corner in the sky there is a rainbow, you will never answer, ‘I’ll look at it tomorrow.’ So there is an urgency to rush to it and to come and enjoy it.” (Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Albert Maysles) The projects last within our attention span, where we still find it interesting every time we see it, but just as suddenly as it came, it has gone, which only increases our