Yves Klein
Yves Klein
Yves Kleinwas a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth28 April 1928
CountryFrance
blue sea sky
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
eye space existential
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!
blue sea sky
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
blue dimensions
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.
essence form manifestation
Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.
beautiful beach nice
As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.
blue movement depth
I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.
blue profound firsts
At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.
communication vocabulary soul
To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.
nice blue sky
It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'.
writing color lines
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing.
color matter form
Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.
artist creative serendipity
The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.
preparation hours minutes
Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.