Yves Klein 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.
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Fire Painting (1961)
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Anthropometry of the Blue Period (1960)
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People begin to fly (1961)
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Untitled blue monochrome (IKB 82)
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Anthropométrie sans titre (ANT 154)
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Large Blue Anthropometry (ANT 105)
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“In front of any painting, figurative or non-figurative I felt more and more that the lines and all their consequences, the contours, the forms, the perspectives, the compositions, became exactly like the bars on the window of a prison. Far away, amidst colour, dwelt life and liberty. And in front of the picture I felt imprisoned, and I believe it is because of that same feeling of imprisonment that van Gogh exclaimed, ‘I long to be freed from I know now what horrible cage!”
Yves Klein
Apr 28, 1928 - Jun 6, 1962