Yves Klein built a short, highly influential career around immateriality, monochrome color and the performative construction of artistic myth. His International Klein Blue paintings, Anthropometries made with painted bodies, void exhibitions, fire works and Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility all tested the limits of the artwork as object.
Painting; performance; sculpture; installation
Artist Films
Yves Klein – Anthropometries | TateShots
Major Works
- 1962IKB 191
- 1959IKB 79
- 1958Le Vide (The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility)
- 1960Anthropometry of the Blue Period
- 1960Leap into the Void
- 1949/1960Monotone-Silence Symphony
- 1959–62Zone of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility
- 1961Fire Painting F 25
- 1958Sponge Relief RE 19
- 1962Blue Venus
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
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