{"id":2019,"date":"2024-07-03T12:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2024-07-03T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T20:44:54","slug":"art-charles-schulz-and-christo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/art-charles-schulz-and-christo\/","title":{"rendered":"art: Charles Schulz and Christo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Charles Schulz is very much conventional decent middle-America (with a side of deep bitter existential distress underlying his Peanuts cartoons). Yet, as I learned on a return visit to his museum<\/a>, it turns out <\/span>“Sparky” was a big supporter of Christo and Jean-Claude’s toweringly great “Running Fence”, the 1976 conceptual land artwork running across Sonoma and Marin counties and into the sea. Schulz made a delightful Peanuts cartoon about Christo’s work that ended with a wrapped Snoopy doghouse; Christo repaid the friendship by actually constructing it \ud83d\ude0d<\/span>! Read Schulz’s widow’s lovely blog post<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Running Fence gone but indelible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I never saw “Running Fence” in situ<\/em>, but I was knocked out by the documentary<\/a> by the Maysles about the process Christo and Jeanne-Claud went through to get it built and the incomparable results. I need to get the Maysles’ “5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude”<\/a>. Something so big, so evocative, so influential that’s gone forever is melancholic. It’s reminiscent of Rachel Whiteread’s “House”<\/a>, another masterpice that vanished in weeks, leaving only pictures and a great documentary<\/a>. So different from Richard Serra’s works<\/a> that should last for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peanuts forever<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The museum was gratifyingly well-attended when I returned. Peanuts’ cultural impact will surely fade, but the evergreen Peanuts animated specials<\/a> and Vince Guaraldi’s excellent music<\/a> will keep it alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier I wrote about a previous trip to the Charles M. Schulz museum<\/a>, and the greatest comic strip ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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