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Yves Klein (French: [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 was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration ...
Tate Modern, London. IKB 79 is a paint on canvas on plywood painting by French artist Yves Klein, from 1959. It is one of his monochrome paintings, of which he made around 200, in the colour blue that he conceived, International Klein Blue, based on pigment ultramarine. The current painting has the dimensions of 139.7 by 119.7 cm.
The Monotone-Silence Symphony (French: Symphonie Monoton-Silence) is a piece of minimalist music by the French artist Yves Klein. It consists of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major, followed by a 20 minute silence. [1][2] The original score calls for an ensemble consisting of 20 singers, 10 violins, 10 cellos, 3 double ...
International Klein Blue is the color used by Blue Man Group. [14] Roger Eno recorded a composition called Reflections on I.K.B. on his 1985 album Voices (EG Records, Virgin). [15] Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released a single on 8 December 2017 called "International Blue", which is written about Yves Klein and IKB. [16]
This was one of the few paintings to which Klein gave a title. Paul Nyzam, in the Yves Klein website states: "With their absorptive and highly material 'living' sponges affixed to a monochrome plane of colour, Klein's sponge-reliefs are the quintessential (ultramarine International Klein Blue) but within the context of Klein's spiritual trinity ...
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962. Yves Klein: although Klein had painted monochromes as early as 1949, and held the first private exhibition of this work in 1950, his first public showing was the publication of the artist's book Yves: Peintures in November 1954. Parodying a traditional catalogue, the book featured a series of intense monochromes ...
Yves Klein and Iris Clert first met in December 1955, when the still unknown artist approached Clert in her newly opened gallery, attempting to solicit his monochrome artwork. Klein persuaded Clert to keep one of his paintings, a small orange monochrome, as a trial run. She displayed the monochrome in the corner of the one-room gallery.
Yves Peintures (Eng: Yves Paintings) is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein, originally published in Madrid, on 18 November 1954. [1] [2] This publication was Klein's first public gesture as an artist, featuring pages of 'commercially printed papers' [3] that were seemingly reproductions of paintings that, in fact, didn't exist.