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Yves Klein
French artist chiefly noted for his blue monochromepaintings and for his audacious experiments with new techniques and new attitudes to art. Born in Nice; both his parents were painters. Began to paint in the late 1940s and formulated his first monochrome theories. Lived in Japan 1952-3. Became expert at judo, which he later taught in Spain and in Paris, where he lived from 1955. First public one-man exhibition at the Galerie des Solitaires, Paris, 1955. Early monochrome pictures in orange, yellow, pink, red and green, but from 1957 worked mainly in blue; also made from 1960 a number of monogolds, with gold leaf. Murals for the opera house at Gelsenkirchen 1957-9. Began in 1957 to experiment with fire paintings and 'immaterial zones of sensibility', and in 1958 with 'Anthropométries' made by a nude model pressing herself against the canvas under his direction. Member of the group Nouveaux Réalistes with Arman, Raysse, Spoerri, Tinguely, Pierre Restany and others 1960. Died in Paris of a heart attack, at the age of 34.
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Yves Klein
French artist (1928–1962)
Yves Klein (French:[ivklɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He is known for the development and use of International Klein Blue.
Biography
Klein was born in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. His parents, Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, were both painters. His father painted in a loose post-impressionist style, while his mother was a leading figure in Art informel, and held regular soirées with other leading practitioners of this Parisian abstract movement. Klein received no formal training in art, but his parents exposed him to different styles. His father was a figurative style painter, while his mother had an interest in abstract expressionism.[1]
From 1942 to
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Yves Klein
Yves Klein was born in 1928 in Nice. He there attended a judo school and had his first spiritual experiences. He came to know Arman, and an inspiring, lifelong friendship developed. In 1946/1947 he composed his first monotone symphonies, musical compositions consisting of only a single note, and in 1949 he painted his first monochrome pictures. The first exhibition of his monotone works was held at the Club des Solitaires in 1955. Klein also vigorously engaged with art theoretically, writing numerous essays. In 1957 he entered his Blue Period. He first exhibited only blue works in the Galerie Apollonaire in Milan. He applied his pigment directly onto the canvas with the fixative Rhodopas, which preserved its radiance. In addition, he developed his Anthropometries with female models, printing their blue-pigment-smeared nude bodies directly onto canvas. Countless other blue objects followed. Later gold and pink monochromes were added. In 1960 Yves Klein, Arman, Raymond Hains and others signed a first manifesto and founded the Nouveaux Réalistes. In the following year he
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