Though fleeting, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's projects left iconic afterimages in dozens of natural and urban landscapes, creating, as they themselves put it, "gentle disturbances."
Their art was a celebration of freedom, beauty, and courage. Christo and Jeanne-Claude not only dreamed of things considered impossible, but they also made them a reality. They negotiated with parliaments, municipalities, and private landowners. They enlisted architects, engineers, environmentalists, filmmakers, photographers, collectors, and hundreds of volunteers as their collaborators. Their projects cost millions, yet remained free and accessible to millions of visitors. Simultaneously monumental and intimate, they were infinitely different from other art created up to that point.
