Facts about Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Environmental Art
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Running Fence, a project stretching across Sonoma and Marin counties in California in 1976, consisted of white nylon fabric panels running 24.5 miles through the landscape.
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Over the Florida islands in 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude surrounded 11 small islands with floating pink polypropylene fabric in their project Surrounded Islands.
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Wrapped Reichstag, completed in 1995 in Berlin, saw Christo and Jeanne-Claude cover the German parliament building in silvery fabric after 24 years of negotiations.
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The Gates, installed in Central Park in 2005, consisted of 7,503 saffron-colored fabric panels suspended from steel frames along the park's pathways.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude funded all their large-scale environmental art projects entirely through the sale of preparatory drawings, collages, and scale models, accepting no sponsorships.