Yves klein performance art
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Yves Klein
French artist (1928–1962)
Yves Klein (French:[ivklɛ̃]; 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 to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He is known for the development and use of International Klein Blue.
Biography
Klein was born in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. 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. Klein received no formal training in art, but his parents exposed him to different styles. His father was a figurative style painter, while his mother had an interest in abstract expressionism.[1]
From 1942 to
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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. But the success of his sadly short-lived career lay in attacking many of the ideas that underpinned the abstract painting that had been dominant in France since the end of the Second World War. For some critics he is a descendent of Marcel Duchamp, a prankster who lampooned settled understandings of painting and opened art up to new media. Others consider him as a descendant of earlier avant-garde artists such as Kazimir Malevich and Aleksander Rodchenko, who were also attracted to the monochrome. And even in the ways he used performance later on in his career, he is like many artists who rediscovered some of the tactics of earlier avant-gardes in the 1950s and '60s. Klein might also be compared to his contemporary Joseph Beuys, for, like Beuys, he embraced aspects of Romanticism and mysticism - Klein was intrigued by East
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Chronology
1928
Yves Klein was born in Nice on 28 April 1928 to painter parents - Fred Klein, a figurative painter, and Marie Raymond, an abstract painter.
1928 – 1946
During his childhood, the Klein family lived between Paris and Nice.
1947
During the summer, Yves Klein joined the judo club at police headquarters and met Claude Pascal and Armand Fernandez, the future Arman. They were united by a strong attraction to physical exercise, and all three aspired to the ‘Adventure’ of travel, creation and spirituality. For Yves, judo was the first experience of ‘spiritual’ space.
On the beach in Nice, the three friends decided to ‘share the world’: Armand would have the earth and its riches, Claude Pascal the air, and Yves the sky and its infinity.
1948-1954
During the summer of 1948, Klein visited Italy (Genoa, Portofino, Pisa, Rome, Capri, Naples...).
In November 1948, he left for eleven months of military service in Germany.
At the end of 1949, Claude Pascal and Yves Klein moved temporarily to London where they conti
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