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Yves Klein

Sculptor, Painter or Photographer

Yves Klein (1928–1962) was a French artist who pioneered monochrome painting and created International Klein Blue (IKB). He held his first Paris exhibition in 1955 and was associated with the Nouveaux Réalistes. He died at the age of 34.

Invented International Klein Blue (IKB) in 1956; known for monochromes, performance-based works (including Anthropometries), immaterial works, and association with the Nouveaux Réalistes.

The review praises Yves Klein’s focus on color as material and sensory language and highlights his invention of International Klein Blue (IKB). It situates his monochrome work within attempts to represent the infinite and notes his association with the Nouveaux Réalistes. The reviewer emphasizes color as a communicative, almost musical tool for artists.

For:Students and readers interested in modern art, color theory, and Yves Klein

 Color is matter. It can be a mineral powder, a vegetable substance, the result of processing substances from the animal world... we who use them impose names to recognize them: yellow and brown ochre, natural Siena earth, clear and dark madder lake, reddish violet and scarlet, cobalt violet, Mars violet, Van Dyck brown, cyclamen pink and lilac, purple... that is, warm colors that create an effect of extreme closeness and foreground.

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