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A few years ago I saw a retrospective, with a bunch of drawings and background stories from different projects. As I get farther in my career, I spend less tim

by jfoutz 6y ago

A few years ago I saw a retrospective, with a bunch of drawings and background stories from different projects. As I get farther in my career, I spend less time writing code, and more time convincing people that we should deploy that code. I think the art itself is neat, but haven't seen any of it in person. The years of negotiations with neighborhood, city, state, and federal organizations to actually put the art up, well that, that's pretty humbling.

pavlov 6y ago
I've thought that Christo and Jeanne-Claude had an interesting artistic business model: the finished works are public and free to view, but they sold large quantities of sketches and other artifacts to collectors to fund their work. I don't know if there are other established artists doing that. Maybe it's more common than I realize.
- galfarragem 6y ago
  No, it’s not that common. While most artists stop at sketches - and Christo sketches are enough to grant him a relevant place in modern art (it really worths to study them) - he always pushed to realization whenever possible.
- Daub 6y ago
  Yes... the so-called sketches were often done after the major work was already completed. Kind of like reverse preparatory work. His work was very expensive indeed, and tthis was one of the ways they funded it. That and tax write-offs from big buisness. I never understood the Jean Claude thing. She always insisted very vocally that she and Christo were a creative partnership. However, there is no discernable difference betweeen Christo's work before JC, and that which he produced after they partnered. So where is her creative inmput? My experaince of her is colored by a very colourfull fax I recived from her whilst interning at a major London gallery. I made the huge mistake of addressing a communication only to Christo.

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A few years ago I saw a retrospective, with a bunch of drawings and background stories from different projects. As I get farther in my career, I spend less tim

by jfoutz 6y ago

pavlov 6y ago
I've thought that Christo and Jeanne-Claude had an interesting artistic business model: the finished works are public and free to view, but they sold large quantities of sketches and other artifacts to collectors to fund their work. I don't know if there are other established artists doing that. Maybe it's more common than I realize.
- galfarragem 6y ago
  No, it’s not that common. While most artists stop at sketches - and Christo sketches are enough to grant him a relevant place in modern art (it really worths to study them) - he always pushed to realization whenever possible.
- Daub 6y ago
  Yes... the so-called sketches were often done after the major work was already completed. Kind of like reverse preparatory work. His work was very expensive indeed, and tthis was one of the ways they funded it. That and tax write-offs from big buisness. I never understood the Jean Claude thing. She always insisted very vocally that she and Christo were a creative partnership. However, there is no discernable difference betweeen Christo's work before JC, and that which he produced after they partnered. So where is her creative inmput? My experaince of her is colored by a very colourfull fax I recived from her whilst interning at a major London gallery. I made the huge mistake of addressing a communication only to Christo.