christo


 * Christo Vladimirov Javacheff was born on June 13th, 1935 in Bulgaria.
 * He is associated with contemporary art - art of today.
 * The date of the Christo Gates was May 21st, 2004.
 * He was born in Bulgaria, but made the Christo Gates in the U.S.
 * The story behind the painting was that Christo financed the Gates in Central Park, and when he gave the idea he drew what they would look like for a model.
 * A fun fact is for some of his sculptures - he wrapped an entire building in cloth to make it look like artificial skin.
 * He also wrapped the Islands in Florida's Biscayne Bay with floating hot-pink fabric.
 * I chose The Gates because I thought it would be cool to make it look like I was walking through them. I took three pictures of myself looking like I was walking. Then, I used the magnetic lasso tool to put myself into the picture.

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