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  Yves Klein
Klein also made sculptures in deep blue, and worked with fire, creating some sculptures using it, and setting fire to some of his canvases, thus making scorched holes in them.
Klein is also well known for a photograph, Sant dans le Vide (Leap into the Void), which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement.
Klein died in Paris of a heart attack.
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 The Formidable Blue Stamp of Yves Klein
Klein was a purist, and his mastery of Judo and studies in Rosicrucianism were seemingly based on a quest for inner equilibrium.
Klein's quest for a monochrome art led him to a particularly satisfying pigment, a personally mixed ultramarine that he was later to patent as International Klein Blue.
Klein's childhood friend Arman relates that Iris Clert was a dealer unlike others of the time and that, "She introduced modern techniques for the presentation of art into a business that was more like antique dealing.
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 AE160D Unit 7: Yves Klein
Yves Klein, an artist and judo master, was born in Nice, France in 1928 and died from a heart attack at the age of 34 in 1962, in Paris, where he made his career.
Legend has it that when Yves Klein was eighteen years old, he was sunbathing on the beach in Nice with his friends when they decided to divide up the world between them.
Remarkably, although Klein's career as an artist lasted for only the last eight years of his life (1954-1962), he, like Duchamp before him, was able to change the concept of a work of art and art in general, as well as the concept of the exhibition of art and the role of the artist.
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 International Klein Blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
International Klein Blue (or IKB as it is known in art circles) was developed by French artist Yves Klein as part of his search for colors which best represented the concepts he wished to convey as an artist.
Although Klein had worked with blue extensively in his earlier career, it was not until 1958 that he used it as the central component of a piece (the colour effectively becoming the art).
IKB was developed by Klein and chemists to have the same color brightness and intensity as dry pigments, which it achieves by suspending dry pigment in a clear synthetic resin.
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 The Story of Modern Art
Klein believed that "Judo is, in effect, the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space." Klein was also drawn to eastern religions that envisioned the transformation of the world with static dimensions into an age of space and pure spirit.
In creating his anthropometries, Klein used the human body as a "living paint brush." Bathing his models in his signature International Klein Blue paint, he directed them to press and drag their bodies across paper and canvas, leaving impressions of IKB paint.
Yves Klein's use of his own body and model's bodies as "living paint brushes"; the process of creating the body impressions.
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 KLEIN
Yves Klein was born to bohemian parents in Nice.
In a lecture at the Sorbonne in 1958 Klein's explanation for his monochrome paintings clearly took in much of the Rosicrucian's philosophy in the way the paintings showed no evidence of the human hand preferring to let the works affect the viewer almost subconsciously.
In Klein's work one can draw comparisons to that of Marcel Duchamp but whereas Duchamp wished to challenge the notion of what actually constitutes a work of art, Klein's intention was one of pure sensationalism.
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 Yves Klein
Klein is also well known for a photograph, Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void), which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement.
Klein is considered an important figure in post-war European neo-dadaism.
He engaged in such provocations as "publishing" a chapbook containing only empty pages and selling empty spaces in exchange for gold which he then threw into the river Seine.
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 Yves Klein at the MAK Center Art in America - Find Articles
Klein's architectural foray, like much of his work, was inspired by the writings of Gaston Bachelard, the philosopher of space, matter and the immaterial, who died at age 77, the same year as Klein.
The drawings illustrate Klein's scheme for a town with transparent dwellings whose walls are made of pressurized air and jets of water and fire.
While Klein's proposals might be wildly impractical on a functional level, his vision has something in common with experiments by artists such as James Turrell and Olafur Eliasson, which often touch upon notions of immaterial architecture.
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 MoMA.org | The Collection | Yves Klein. Blue Monochrome. 1961
Klein likened monochrome painting to an "open window to freedom." He worked with a chemist to develop his own particular brand of blue.
Made from pure color pigment and a binding medium, he called it "International Klein Blue." Klein adopted this hue as a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness that reflected his own peculiar utopian vision of the world.
Keenly aware that pigment is a substance of the earth, Klein also devised methods to make paintings using the other three elements—air (in the form of wind), water (in the form of rain), and fire.
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 Muli Koppel's Blog: My Name is Klein, Yves Klein (International Klein Bond)
Klein is a master of the Medium, of the Form: Monochrome (Colors), Monotone (Sounds), Writing: Preface without a Text (=pure form), Still Images, Moving Images etc. As such, he speaks directly to our Zeitgeist, that which is obsessed with the (plat)Form, with the Plat(o)form.
Yves Klein is Sean Connery, is James Bond; James Bond is Yves Klein.
As mentioned earlier, Klein was actively creating his own myth, filming himself working in his studio, always extremely well dressed, with a fl suit and everything.
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 Yves Klein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Klein was born in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France.
From 1942 to 1946, Klein studied at the École Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the École Nationale des Langues Orientales and began practicing judo.
Klein and Arman were continually involved with each other creatively, both as Nouveaux Réalistes and as friends.
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 A/D GALLERY Yves Klein
Klein's table is similar to his "pure pigment" pieces of 1957 and 1961, which were the genesis.
And since the pigment is loose, it does invite comparison to Klein's belief in pure space: the eye penetrates what seems to be a limitless depth.
There are three Klein tables: one filled with Klein International Blue pigment, one with rose madder, and one containing 3000 sheets of gold leaf.
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 All about Yves - painter Yves Klein at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany Art in America - Find Articles
And in Koblenz, Klein's "Monotone Symphony," a composition consisting of a single, prolonged note, was performed in the city museum as part of a program of French musical works.
One of the aims of the exhibition, then, was to re-create several of Klein's most important gallery environments, such as his empty-gallery Void Room of 1958, so as to enable viewers to experience at its fullest the "heightened sensibility" to color and space that Klein meant all of his works to induce.
There is also an unexpected variety of surface textures, even though Klein made a point of applying pigment not with a paint brush but with a commercial paint roller.
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 U B U W E B :: Yves Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On a clear night in March at ten pm sharp a crowd of one hundred people, all dressed in fl tie attire, came to the Galerie International d'Art Contemporain in Paris.
At the end of Yves' piece everyone in the audience was fully aware they had been in the presence of a genius at work, the piece was a huge success!
Kleins' last words that night were, "THE MYTH IS IN ART".
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 Yves Klein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Yves Klein fut rendu célèbre grâce à ses peintures monochromes, réduites à une couleur.
Yves Klein influença aussi bien l'art conceptuel que l'art actif et fut un précurseur du "Body-art".
Yves Klein fait son service militaire en Allemagne.
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 Amazon.fr : Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void: Livres en anglais: Pierre Restany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Amazon.fr : Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void: Livres en anglais: Pierre Restany
As critical advisor and friend of Klein, Restany (Bernard Stern) is very knowledgeable about his subject matter but his use of art jargon is so nonchalant, and his terms are so overwhelmingly abstract, that it is close to impossible for the reader to glean much insight on Klein.
Even a sentence with dates and titles is transformed into art-historic nebulae: "In 1960, Yves Klein's Magnum Opus enters its cosmological phase and comes closer and closer to the glorious body." Illustrations.
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 Yves Klein by Sidra Stich - 3893226575
Yves Klein is one of the most extraordinary and influential figures in post-war avant-garde art.
In less than a decade - up until his untimely death in 1962 - he forged a career and built up a body of work that together have influenced and inspired contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists worldwide.
Klein sought in his art to liberate the senses, to heighten our sensibility and to intensify our experience of life.
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 Yves Klein: The Monotone Symphony
Klein in a fl dinner jacket proceeded to conduct a ten piece orchestra in his personal composition of The Monotone Symphony, which he had written in 1949.
When the symphony stopped it was followed by a strict twenty minutes of silence, in which everyone in the room willingly froze themselves in their own private meditation space.
Yves Klein: The Monotone Symphony, mp3 wav sound file Yves Klein als Dirigent, Theater Gelsenkirchen, 1958 Montone Symphonie - Stille, 1947 - 1961
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 Yves Klein (1928 - 1962) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Yves Klein was born to two painter parents, but received no formal artistic training.
Klein also had other unusual methods of painting including allowing rain to fall on paper, using a flamethrower, and making prints of the human body.
Known primarily for his paintings of reclining nudes and his portraits with elegantly elongated features, Modigliani was an anomaly among the artists (many of them foreign-born Jews) who were active in the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th ce...
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 Yves Klein | MetaFilter
Klein realized that pigments always tended to look richer and more gorgeous as a dry powder than when mixed with a binder, and he wanted to find a way to capture this appearance in a paint.
In 1955 he found his answer: a new synthetic fixative resin called Rhodopas M60A, which could be thinned to act as a binder without impairing the chromatic strength of the pigment.
Klein collaborated with a Parisian chemical manufacturer and retailer of artists' materials named Edouard Adam to develop a recipe for binding ultramarine in the resin mixed with other organic chemicals.
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 Yves Klein Online
Original works by Yves Klein available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Yves Klein copyright requests handled by the Artists Rights Society.
All images and text on this Yves Klein page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
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 Yves Klein famous artist information
By the late 1950s, Klein's monochrome works were almost exclusively in a deep [[blue]] hue which he eventually patented as [[International Klein Blue]] (IKB, =PB29, =CI 77007).
Klein is considered an important figure in post-war European [[Neo-Dadaneo-Dadaism]].
Klein died in Paris of a [[myocardial infarctionheart attack]].
www.artbrain.co.uk /famous-painters/yves-klein.htm   (412 words)

  
 Yves Klein: Vzdušná architektura - ARCHiNET.cz
To, co Yves Klein vytvořil, nebyl pouze revoluční pohled na architekturu, kterým virtuálně negoval objektivní prostor, ale přímo sociální projekt.
Klein vytvářel architektonické koncepty, které stály v ostrém portikladu oproti všemu co vznikalo v soudobé Francii, především v nových suburbálních zónách.
Yves Klein byl pro své současníky vizionářem budoucího vývoje.
www.archinet.cz /index.php?mode=article&art=19700&sec=10027&lang=cz   (559 words)

  
 Yves Klein artist and art...the-artists.org
Yves Klein was born on April 28 in Nice, on rue Verdi, in the home of his maternal grandparents.
His father, Fred Klein, Dutch of Indonesian extraction, was a figurative painter.
Also known as serigraphy, silk screening is a process by which multiple layers of ink are manually pressed through fine screens, resulting in an art print that resembles a painting on paper.
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 Amazon.com: Yves Klein: Books: Olivier Berggruen,Max Hollein,Ingrid Pfeiffer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Yves Klein 1928-1962: International Klein Blue (Basic Art Series, 37) by Hannah Weitemeier
Yves Klein was regarded as a visionary even by his contemporaries.
Having anticipated numerous movements such as Happenings, Performance, Land and Body Art, and Conceptual Art, Klein's manifold oeuvre, realized within a period of only eight years, continues to exercise a decisive influence to this day.
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 YVES KLEIN Biography, History YVES KLEIN Prints and Books.
In the 1950s Klein exhibited large canvases of single colours, and it is perhaps for the individual ‘International Klein Blue’; colour that Yves Klein is best known.
In 1958, Klein created a stir in Paris by exhibiting an empty gallery painted white, entitled ‘Le Vide’, The Void.
Not surprisingly, Klein had his critics, but has had a strong influence on art movement and direction ever since.
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 Amazon.com: Yves Klein.: Books: Nicolas Charlet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Amazon.ca: Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void: Books: Pierre Restany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Amazon.ca: Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void: Books: Pierre Restany
Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void (Paperback)
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 Books by Yves Klein, compare prices
Yves Klein Editions : Catalogue of Editions and Sculptures Edited
by Yves Klein, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, N.S.W.), Museet for samtidskunst (Norway), Karin Hellandsj, Sara Hildenin taidemuseo, Timo Vuorikoski
Yves Klein, Alain Jacquet, Antonio Semeraro : Insights XXe Biennale Internationale De Sao Paulo, 14 Octobre-10 Decembre 1989 Centre National Des Arts Plastiques, Paris, 27 Mars-7 Mai 1990 Centre De La Vieille Charite, Marseille, 28 Mai-20 Aout 1990
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