Christo and Jeanne-Claude's art is the creation of temporary, beautiful objects on a vast scale for specific outdoor sites. It is in the populist nature of their thinking that they believe people should have intense and memorable experiences of art outside museums. Otherwise there is no rational purpose for their projects. They do not satisfy our practical needs. No causes are pleaded. The projects are their own reason for being, but in the late twentieth century they are also tributes to artistic freedom. Christo and Jeanne-Claude confront what does exist with what they alone have determined can exist as a dramatic and beautiful form. Their art therefore is the result of intelligence and aesthetic intuition added to the natural and built environment.
