Christo's latest art project is made of 7,506 oil barrels
For almost 50 years, the artist duo and couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude have collaborated on temporary, grand-scale art installations all over the world. Christo just unveiled their latest project, The London Mastaba, a floating sculpture made of 7,506 oil barrels in the middle of The Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. Though Jeanne-Claude passed away nine years ago, Christo continues to construct pieces they had planned together. Conceived in 1977 and completed in 2018, it is actually a test run for a larger, permanent mastaba planned in the United Arab Emirates.
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I truly admire their determination.
Seeing the picture transition from them together to him alone (at 2:15 - 2:20 suddenly made me think of Pixar's "Up" and now I'm sad.
@abigaildevoe
3 жыл бұрын
they really are the art world equivalent to carl and ellie!
1:36 walking on water looks fun!
damn, RIP to a pair of legends.
Bon voyage master
super art
Simply amazing
I am ambivalent about producing art for its own sake. Art to me, has value when it illuminates, provokes or titillates us by showcasing some aspects of our real life.
@RazeHaze10
6 жыл бұрын
I rather prefer it. It has no bias, no agenda, no message; it is just beautiful for beauty's sake. Its simply pleasing to the eye.
@ruan5649
4 жыл бұрын
Art sometimes does not have a value.I don't see how this should not illuminate, provoke and titillate.
1:25 "and With each piece they try to leave the area Cleaner than before" And the death toll below the one of the umbrella Project.
Beautiful artwork but I can only imagine all the good that could have been done with the hundreds of millions of dollars spent to create these installations. For example, the Gates of New York in Central Park cost 21 million dollars.
@kristine8338
3 жыл бұрын
Flying into space with your ‘friends’ ? 😉
@carlover4239
Жыл бұрын
Honestly a weird take when you could say this about literally anything. So much could be done to help the world instead of paying actors and athletes.
@GiJoe94
6 ай бұрын
Lmao "hundreds of millions" is a big stretch. And the projects are self funded from selling his own art pieces to create the grand ones. He couldn't change the world with that little amount of money but he left something behind
Self-funded? Where's the money from?
@GrumpyStormtrooper
4 жыл бұрын
he sold his own pictures and artworks.
1:48 No it isn't.
@GiJoe94
6 ай бұрын
They don't know the meaning of mastaba
Crackhead KING
A piecec of art work that has no purpose at all? Like brainless soulless littering? Why did CIA buy Andy?
@ruan5649
4 жыл бұрын
exactly, like life without capitalism. GTH