![]() ![]() ![]() Discovered with the help of Edouard Adam, a Parisian paint dealer, the optical effect retained the brilliance of the pigment which, when suspended in linseed oil, tended to become dull. The next exhibition, 'Proposte Monocrome, Epoca Blu' (Proposition Monochrome Blue Epoch) at the Gallery Apollinaire, Milan, (January 1957), featured 11 identical blue canvases, using ultramarine pigment suspended in a synthetic resin 'Rhodopas', described by Klein as "The Medium". Shocked at this misunderstanding, Klein knew a further and decisive step in the direction of monochrome art would have to be taken.From that time onwards he would concentrate on one single, primary color alone: blue. Public responses to these shows, which displayed orange, yellow, red, pink and blue monochromes, deeply disappointed Klein, as people went from painting to painting, linking them together as a sort of mosaic.įrom the reactions of the audience, realized that.viewers thought his various, uniformly colored canvases amounted to a new kind of bright, abstract interior decoration. Yves Peintures anticipated his first two shows of oil paintings, at the Club des Solitaires, Paris, October 1955 and Yves: Proposition monochromes at Gallery Colette Allendy, February 1956. Parodying a traditional catalogue raisonné, the book featured a series of intense monochromes linked to various cities he had lived in during the previous years. The same year, he settled permanently in Paris and began in earnest to establish himself in the art world.īetween 19, Klein conceived his Monotone Symphony (1949, formally Monotone Silence Symphony) that consisted of a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute silence – a precedent to Klein's later monochrome paintings and to the work of minimal musicians, particularly La Monte Young's drone music and John Cage's 4′33″.Īrtwork Monochrome works: The Blue Epoch Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962Īlthough 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. In 1954 Klein wrote a book on judo called Les Fondements du judo. Later that year, he became the technical director of the Spanish judo team. He travelled to Japan in 1953 where he became, at the age of 25, a master at judo receiving the rank of yodan (4th dan/degree black-belt) from the Kodokan, becoming the first European to rise to that rank. During the years 1948 to 1952, he travelled to Italy, Great Britain, Spain, and Japan. While attending the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Klein began practicing judo. In early 1948, Klein was exposed to Max Heindel's 1909 text The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception and pursued a membership with an American society dedicated to Rosicrucianism. With this famous symbolic gesture of signing the sky, Klein had foreseen, as in a reverie, the thrust of his art from that time onwards-a quest to reach the far side of the infinite. At the age of nineteen, Klein and his friends lay on a beach in the south of France, and divided the world between themselves Arman chose the earth, Pascal, words, while Klein chose the ethereal space surrounding the planet, which he then proceeded to sign: At this time, he became friends with Arman (Armand Fernandez) and Claude Pascal and started to paint. įrom 1942 to 1946, Klein studied at the École Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the École Nationale des Langues Orientales. His father was a figurative style painter, while his mother had an interest in abstract expressionism. Klein received no formal training in art, but his parents exposed him to different styles. 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. His parents, Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, were both painters. Klein was born in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France. He is known for the development and use of International Klein Blue. 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 was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Yves Klein ( French pronunciation: 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art.
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