Bulgarian Artists Christo and Jeanne Claude, Кристо и Жан Клод (1935, 1935 2009)

Christo(ChristoYavashev), an American artist of Bulgarian birth, studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Sofia (19536), after which he spent six months in Prague. There he encountered Russian Constructivism, which impressed him with its concern for monumental visionary structures. He escaped first to Vienna, studying briefly in1957 at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, and in1958to Paris. Like his contemporaries, Christorebelled against abstraction, seeing it as too theoretical and proposing in its place