#249192 - 13/02/2005 03:45
POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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#249193 - 13/02/2005 03:50
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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He's just old news. Keeps doing mostly the same old thing. Draping fabric across the landscape and calling it art. More like littering.
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#249194 - 13/02/2005 05:26
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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i didnt know who he was, so i asked tonyc. tonyc recommended google. i am unimpressed by whatever he (this Christo dude) is doing. as to whether he is an icon or a menace... *shrug* who cares?
Edited by l0ser (13/02/2005 05:27)
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#249195 - 13/02/2005 20:16
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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I just saw a couple of photos of 'The Gates' (Google news and here). Strangely enough, I rather like it...
Edited by bonzi (13/02/2005 20:37)
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#249196 - 13/02/2005 20:30
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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It's a bright spot in the drabness of the eastern winter, but all the hype about it is amazing. It is scheduled to be there 16 days, aand I doubt it will change the world, or even NYC...maybe Central Park?
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#249197 - 13/02/2005 20:39
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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Agreed, but I would like to stroll a bit through The Gates, anyway...
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#249198 - 14/02/2005 18:38
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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To me, it's pure art. It's virtually non-representational and is just done because. Because he thinks it's attractive.
Of course, that doesn't count the guy that got killed by one of the unmbrellas flying off its mooring at one of his previous installations.
He does need to come up with a new idea, though. I think the fabric thing's been done to death now.
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#249199 - 15/02/2005 01:22
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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...appreciate your extremely informative link, above. I too would love to stroll it, especially as the trees look to be coated in hoarfrost. I know that part of the park well enough that I can almost put myself there by visualizing, having seen the pictures in your link. I think it's fun, just don't get why it should be so contraversial... 
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#249200 - 15/02/2005 04:49
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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just don't get why it should be so contraversial...
I suppose if I were footing the bill, I might feel a bit of controversy, but otherwise I think I'm with Bitt -- art because it looks nice (YMMV).
This Poll #59 was intended to provoke the viewer with a very small model of false dichotomy ("But I didn't stop beating my wife!")
Performance polling.
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#249201 - 15/02/2005 09:04
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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pooh-bah
Registered: 13/09/1999
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I suppose if I were footing the bill, I might feel a bit of controversy, but otherwise I think I'm with Bitt -- art because it looks nice (YMMV).
Apparently, Christo & Jeanne-Claude (sp?) footed the bill (expected to be $20M+) themselves. So, why not?
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#249202 - 15/02/2005 13:42
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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Apparently, Christo & Jeanne-Claude (sp?) footed the bill (expected to be $20M+) themselves. So, why not?
Dang, what ever happened to the time-honored tradition of starving artists?
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#249203 - 15/02/2005 16:47
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
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Dang, what ever happened to the time-honored tradition of starving artists?
Mao and Stalin died?
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#249204 - 15/02/2005 16:51
Re: POLL: Christo: Icon or Menace?
[Re: julf]
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I think they still do it in Cuba. And probably North Korea, as long as the artist's name is not Kim Jong Il, history's greatest Renaissance man.
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