Christo And Jeanne-Claude's The Gates

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On February 12, 2005 Christo and Jeanne-Claude finished The Gates and presented it to New York City. Built in central park, they designed 7,503 Gates that wrapped along the walkways creating a visually pleasing environment to tingle your senses. The Gates has people constantly questioning why people make things like this. What does it bring our culture, how it makes people feel, There honestly is no simple answer. Art is meant to open your mind and make you question your inner artist. The Gates, even with it only being open for two weeks, brought in a very large sum of money to New York’s local businesses, close to a quarter of a billion dollars. It stretched through 843 acres of Central Park and cost roughly twenty one million dollars to make, which was entirely funded by themselves. Not to mention all of the building materials that were used to create the structures, were all recycled and made into other things like new fabric, fencing and other building material that were sold all around the world. …show more content…

Imagine walking through a park and your eye catches something bright, and your turn to look and its steel gates wrapping through a park. If you decide to walk through Central Park you will pass under vibrant orange steel gates with matching fabrics draping in the wind.The beautiful oranges screamed out against the soft white snow creating a beautiful piece. Some people felt like this brought life back into New York since 9/11, giving the city a feeling of warmth and security, while others felt it was a nuisance and a disruption to the natural beauty of the park, even though the park is anything but natural. It is infact all man

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