{"id":125,"date":"2020-06-02T05:15:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-12-03T01:00:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:00:38","slug":"christos-land-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/christos-land-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Christo&#8217;s Land"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Land Art is something that is pretty much unheard of these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weeks death of great artist Christo bring back to mind a time when amazing art installations such as his wrapped buildings, bridges and landscapes were possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot imagine with the environmental and occupational issues off today, any of Christos great artworks would ever have made it past the concept stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-02-14.59.41.png?resize=525%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" width=\"525\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-02-14.59.41.png?w=549&amp;ssl=1 549w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-02-14.59.41.png?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Christo and Jeanne-Claude:\u00a0<em>Wrapped Reichstag<\/em><\/strong><em>,<\/em> temporary installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1995; in Berlin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1969 when people were looking to the sky at the man on the moon, Christo was here in Australia&#8217;s east coast wrapping the Little Bay coastline in Sydney.  Quite astoundingly his death this week coincided with the historical launch of SpaceX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christo on &#039;Wrapped Coast&#039;, 1969\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lU5oBJ0zoV8?start=15&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Farewell Christo, I never get to see any of your artwork in real life, but have Images of your amazing installations imbedded into my mind.  I shall think of the moon now &#8211; not as a ball of cheese but a Christo wrapped planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land Art is something that is pretty much unheard of these days. This weeks death of great artist Christo bring back to mind a time when amazing art installations such as his wrapped buildings, bridges and landscapes were possible. I cannot imagine with the environmental and occupational issues off today, any of Christos great artworks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/christos-land-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christo&#8217;s Land&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,12,3,10],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-melinda-vassallo","tag-perfect-match-street-art-of-the-inner-west","tag-street-art","tag-walking-the-streets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-2020-06-02-15.38.35.png?fit=817%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finelinedesign.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}