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
mean reality blue
The immaterial blue colour shown at Iris Clert's in April had in short made me inhuman, had excluded me from the world of tangible reality; I was an extreme element of society who lived in space and who had no means of coming back to earth. Jean Tinguely saw me in space and signaled to me in speed to show me the last machine to take to return to the ephemerality of material life.
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'.
blue dimensions
Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.
blue sea sky
Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.
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.
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.
base definitely distinct nuance personal possesses race
For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
real doors space
I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom!.. ..the immaterialisation of blue, the coloured space that can not be seen but which we impregnate ourselves with.
art eye order
I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself. Then, when the creation starts, I stand there, present at the ceremony, immaculate, calm, relaxed... ready to welcome the work of art that is coming into existence in the tangible world.
mother earth taste
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.
childhood five-senses lost
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood...
france want next
I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France.
bars lines painting
I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.