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That blue: The artist who owned ultramarine

In the mid-Fifties, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new global demands a brand new man”. along with his idiosyncratic kind and large aura, this daring artist may pass directly to pursue a short yet bountiful profession, generating greater than a thousand work over seven years, now thought of modernist masterpieces.

Klein made his identify specifically along with his huge, monochrome canvases in his personal, patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue, composed of natural pigment and binding medium, is right away wealthy and luminous, evocative and ornamental, and used to be conceived by means of Klein as a way of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world.

A pioneer of bold portray concepts, Klein used to be additionally popular for his deployment of “living paintbrushes”, within which bare ladies, daubed in overseas Klein Blue, might make imprints in their our bodies on huge sheets of paper. frequently, those Anthropométries have been staged as complicated performances, entire with blue cocktails or Klein's personal Monotone Symphony.

About the series:
Each ebook in TASCHEN’s easy paintings sequence features:

  • an in depth chronological precis of the existence and oeuvre of the artist, protecting his or her cultural and historic value
  • a concise biography
  • nearly a hundred illustrations with explanatory captions

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