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Yves Klein (French pronunciation: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist considered 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.
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Fire paintings (12) Anthropométries (7) Multiples (7) Genres...
- Blue Agreement
Yves Klein Famous works. Untitled Pink Monochrome •...
- Horse, c.1949
‘Horse’ was created in c.1949 by Yves Klein in Nouveau...
- Untitled Color Fire Painting, 1961
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- Fire Painting, 1961
‘Fire Painting’ was created in 1961 by Yves Klein in Nouveau...
- Anthropometry
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- Fire Painting F36, 1961
‘Fire Painting F36’ was created in 1961 by Yves Klein in...
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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.
Summary of Yves Klein. Yves Klein was the most influential, prominent, and controversial French artist to emerge in the 1950s. He is remembered above all for his use of a single color, the rich shade of ultramarine that he made his own: International Klein Blue.
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Yves Klein ( French pronunciation: [iv klɛ̃]; 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 famously declared the blue sky to be his first artwork and from there continued finding radical new ways to represent the infinite and immaterial in his works. One such strategy was monochrome abstraction—the use of one color over an entire canvas.
Jun 2, 2024 · Yves Klein was a French artist associated with the Parisian Nouveau Réalisme movement championed by the French critic Pierre Restany. The only painter in the founding group, Klein was a highly influential artist whose radical techniques and conceptual gestures laid the groundwork for much of the.
