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Yves Klein (28 April 1928 - 6 June 1962) was a French artist.

Klearound was natural in Nice. Each his parents were painters. He sleep in Japan for a instance, becoming renowned inside judo, before settling around Paris and beginning to exhibit his work there. Numerous one early paintings were monochrome and within the kind of colours.

Per late 1950s, Klein's monochromic works were virtually only around the deep blue hue which he eventually patented when International Klein Blue (IKB, =PB29, =CI 77007). Too when conventionally processed paintings, witharound a total of works Klein experienced naked female system covered in blue paint dragged through or even placed upon canvases to produce the image, using the system when brushes. This nature and severity of function was known as by Klein Anthropometry. Every now and again the creation one paintings was turned into a kinda performance art - an event in 1960, for example, got an audience dressed around formal evening put on watching a system approach their project when an implemental ensemble played Klein's 1949 [http://www.ubu.com/sound/klein.html The Monotone Symphony], which consisted of a single sustained chord.

Klein too manufactured sculptures in deep blue, and worked using fire, creating a few sculptures utilizing it, & setting fire to some of his canvases, so making scorched holes inside the children.

Klein is too easily known for the photograph, Saut dans le vide (Leap into a Void) [http://www.v1.paris.fr/musees/Zadkine/d_Les_expositions_temporaires/acrobate/images/klein.jpg] , which apparently shows him jumping bump off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement. Klein utilized a photo when grounds to believe of his oft-mentioned unaided lunar travel. In point of fact, "Saut dans le vide" wwhen published as section of a broadside on the a share of Klein (the "artist of space") denouncing NASA's have lunar expeditions when hubris & folly.

Klewithin is considered an crucial figure in post-war European neo-Dadaism. He engaged within such provocations when "publishing" the chapbook containing sole empty places & selling empty spaces around exchange for gold which he then threw into a flow of any stream Seine.

Klewithin died in Paris of the heart attack.

Center for Contemporary Art - Yves Klein
Reproduction of Leap into The Void, a silver gelatin print.

Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum - The Story of Modern Art
Read a brief biography and view the painting Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100) in the teacher resources.

Guggenheim Collection - Yves Klein (1928-1962)
Read a brief biography and view two works of the artist.

Yves Klein
Information about the artist.






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