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Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980–83 was a 1983 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude surrounded an island archipelago in Miami with pink fabric.
Surrounded Islands was completed on May 7, 1983, with the aid of 430 workers and could be admired for two weeks. The workers were outfitted with pink long sleeve shirts with pale blue text written on the back reading “Christo Surrounded Islands”, and then in acknowledging the garment's designer, "designed and produced by Willi Smith". [19]
“As Christo and Jeanne-Claude would say, once it is experienced, it lasts forever.” An art installation of ‘pink islands’ changed Miami forever. Now this museum holds its legacy
Completion of the Christo and Jeanne-Claude environmental artwork, Surrounded Islands, involving eleven islands in Biscayne Bay off Miami being surrounded by 6,500,000 square feet (600,000 m 2) of pink fabric. [2] Lucian Freud - Large Interior W11 (After Watteau) [3] Completion of Richard Hamilton's diptych The Citizen.
Works by the artist Christo or Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Pages in category "Works by Christo and Jeanne-Claude" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Gates was a site-specific work of art by Bulgarian artist Christo Yavacheff and French artist Jeanne-Claude, known jointly as Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The artists installed 7,503 steel "gates" along 23 miles (37 km) of pathways in Central Park in New York City. From each gate hung a panel of deep saffron-colored nylon fabric. The exhibit ...
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