Description: This is Vintage Original postcard from CHRISTO's 1991 THE UMBRELLAS, an Art INSTILLATION that was simultaneously in both California & Japan This is THE YELLOW CALIFORNIAS Umbrella View But the project was closed Sunday, three days earlier than scheduled, after unexpectedly high winds in the Tejon Pass uprooted one of the 488-pound umbrellas from its steel base Saturday and sent it hurtling toward a 34-year-old spectator, crushing her against a boulder. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Christo and his wife, Jeanne-Claude Javacheff, arrived in California Monday from Japan to cope with the aftermath of that death. He received word late Wednesday night of the Japanese worker's death. The Umbrellas, Japan–USA, 1984–91 was a 1991 environmental artwork in which artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude erected yellow and blue umbrella structures in California and Japan, respectively. The 3,100-umbrella project cost US$26 million and attracted three million visitors. Christo closed the exhibition early after a woman was crushed by a windswept umbrella in California. Separately, a worker was killed during the deconstruction of the Japanese exhibit. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 26 million dollar temporary work of art was entirely financed by the artists through their "The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and U.S.A. Corporation" (Jeanne-Claude Christo-Javacheff, President). The artists did not accept sponsorship. All previous projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been financed in a similar manner through the sale of the studies, preparatory drawings, collages, scale models, early works, and original lithographs. The removal started on October 27 and the land was restored to its original condition. The umbrellas were taken apart and most of the elements were recycled. The Umbrellas, free standing dynamic modules, reflected the availability of the land in each valley, creating an invitational inner space, as houses without walls, or temporary settlements and related to the ephemeral character of the work of art. In the precious and limited space of Japan, the umbrellas were positioned intimately, close together and sometimes following the geometry of the rice fields. In the luxuriant vegetation enriched by water year round, the umbrellas were blue. In the California vastness of uncultivated grazing land, the configuration of the umbrellas was whimsical and spreading in every direction. The brown hills are covered by blond grass. In that dry landscape, the umbrellas were yellow. From October 9, 1991 for a period of 18 days, The Umbrellas were seen, approached, and enjoyed by the public, either by car from a distance and closer as they bordered the roads, or by walking under The Umbrellas in their luminous shadows. “All of a sudden, the hillsides were just scattered with these giant pops of yellow, and it was really quiet beautiful...walking around and just seeing the thousands and thousands of yellow umbrellas,” said Cruz. The umbrellas weren’t there to protect people from the rain or sun. Instead they were part of a temporary art project by the husband and wife team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who made an international reputation by doing things like wrapping islands in Biscayne Bay with fabric, and doing the same to Berlin’s Reichstag. On both Kern County’s Tejon Ranch, and the rice paddies of Ibaraki, Japan, the team installed over 3,000 umbrellas, blue ones in Japan, and yellow ones in California, each standing nearly 20 feet tall. Cruz, who eventually went on to become the curator of the Bakersfield Museum of Art, says while the project may have been temporary, it changed the way people viewed the landscape, even today. “I think anyone who lived in or around Kern County will remember the umbrellas. It absolutely left an indelible mark on people’s memory,” said Cruz. The removal of all the umbrellas will probably take a few months, according to Volz. Even as the project began closing down in California, a few thousand people showed up Sunday, curious to see the exhibit. But not anymore. "Today I drove up there," Volz said, "and I could hardly see anyone visiting." ITEM in AS SEEN Vintage GOOD CONDITION PLEASE SEE PICS. MULTIPLE PURCHASES PAY ONLY ONE MAILING FEE
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