Relationship between public artists and reputation or maney

There are similar goals among Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s projects, De La Vega’s chalkings, and Diego Rivera’s murals. All of their art works have been shown in public places and there art works want to give a message about cultural, political, or environmental issues to ordinary people. Their ideal goals have reached people recently and started to receive recognition from public.
However, their art works started to transgress their initiate goal. Come Collectors and museums want to buy their sketches which is paid a lot of money by collectors and museums. Any artist doesn’t want to sell their art for the money. Landscape artists, who don’t want to make their art use commercially, make their art in nature because collectors can’t collect nature of huge size. Maybe Christo and Jeanne-Claude thought like that before. Mural and Graphitti artists also think, too. Nevertheless, their art works such as sketches and concept notes expensive more and more with time. I wonder Christo and Jeanne-Claude really earn modest salary, and Chico who is mural artist really will retire a living as a street artist and will not use his reputation after retirement. In my opinion some typical fine artists don’t care about audience and just concentrate their artworks. Besides, public artists need audiences who can interact or recognize their works. I think if reputation or money leads the public artists’ enthusiasm, they could not reject easily. This kinds of results are more bad than fine artist sell their art works to collectors because the public artist use public for themselves. I understand living as a public artist is very difficult. However, they also should be very careful using their work commercially.

On the way to the Gates

When I go to travel Potsdam in Germany in 1995, I saw the big wrapped building. At first, I thought the building was being remodeled or under construction because it was too huge to think that it was an artwork. After listening about artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The truth gives me a shock. I never forget the moment when I saw the building in German with shimmering fabrics.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude want to create unforgettable images about a special place or an ordinary life place in people’s mind. Actually these monumental, temporary works make us think twice and remember. However, these artworks also bring out a lot of issues and social argument at the same time. This phenomenon makes us think about our environments and out life values. Furthermore, these huge projects require involving many kinds of collaborators such as specialists or normal citizens. The people who involve the Gate project directly or indirectly would think about their living place during long processing period.
The project of Christo and Jeanne-Claude not only produce good point but also bring out social issue of art value. Some people, who think the project give damage to their benefits, object their projects and give many questions “ is this necessary work for us?” “How about invest money to other social business?” many people accept the Hollywood movie spend lots of money and make similar effects as this artwork. Christo and Jeanne-Claude ask us how to differentiate between a movie set and their projects. Their projects contribute more benefit than Hollywood movie to our society.
I’m expecting to see “The Gates” project for Central Park, New York City” in January 2005. The project will give people unforgettable memory about Central Park and New York. They would think about our beautiful nature and think to good to give us big present in our life.