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Jan 2, 2020 · “The painter of space leaps into the void!” The man was avant-garde artist Yves Klein, and it was his own satirical publication featuring his now-famous image Leap into the Void (1960). It was easy, at the time, to take the photograph at face value—that Klein was abandoning himself to gravity.
As in his carefully choreographed paintings in which he used nude female models dipped in blue paint as paintbrushes, Klein's photomontage paradoxically creates the impression of freedom and abandon through a highly contrived process.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Leap into the Void’ was created in 1960 by Yves Klein in Nouveau Réalisme style. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Almost everybody knows the iconic image of French artist Yves Klein suspended in mid-air, during his famous “Le Saut dans le Vide” (the Leap into the Void). Less people know that this photomontage was made in October 1960, when Klein jumped from the rooftop of his art dealer’s house at Rue Gentil-Bernard in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris.
Leap into the Void The title of this photographic work by Yves Klein from his newspaper Sunday, November 27th, 1960 "The Newspaper of a Single Day is: "A man in space! The painter of space leaps into the void!".
A street in Fontenay-aux-Roses, lined with detached houses. From the top of a wall, a man leaps into the void. A cyclist, indifferent, moves away. The man is Yves Klein.
Aug 28, 2014 · Leap Into the Void, his famous black-and-white photograph of 1960, presents Klein soaring upwards from the parapet of a building like a Left Bank Superman.
