Yves Klein

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Yves Klein

• The 1st postmodern alchemist

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Yves Klein was born in Nice, France on April 28,
1928. He was schooled in France and studied
judo, among other things. In the early to mid
1940s, he met Arman Fernandez and Claude Pascal,
who encouraged him to paint. He began working in
monotones. In the 1950s he traveled and did
more studying. He entered his blue period in
1957 and one year later he began using live
models as paintbrushes. He did lots of
performance art, including symphonies. In 1962
he appeared in a film called Mondo Cane. He died
suddenly on June 6, 1962.
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Plaster cast of Arman, 1962This piece was
featured in the exhibition Antagonismes 2
LObjet and displayed at the Musee des Arts
Decoratifs, Paris.
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The Monotone SymphonyMarch 9, 1960
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The myth is in art -Klein
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Resulting Paintings from The Monotone Symphony
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Would not the future artist be he who expressed
through an eternal silence an immense painting
possessing no dimension? Klein, from the
Chelsea Hotel Manifesto
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Long live the immaterial! Klein
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