Yves Klein’s, ultramarine. 'The Virgin in Prayer', Untitled Fire Painting / (F 81), “Monotone-Silence.”

BBC Radio 4

"Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not."


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Leap into the Void! An exploration into the work of French postwar artist Yves Klein

BBC Culture

Yves Klein was an artist, showman and inventor – who created a hue that had never existed before.

The man who invented a colour

How did he achieve this? Alastair Sooke reports.

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"The genius of Klein is becoming more and more apparent."



Yves Klein: The man who invented a colour
Yves Klein was an artist, showman and inventor – who created a hue that had never existed before. How did he achieve this? Alastair Sooke reports.
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National Gallery

'The Virgin in Prayer' is one of Sassoferrato's finest compositions. The blue cloak is painted with costly ultramarine pigment:http://bit.ly/1gQ2Fcp


Centre Pompidou 新增了 2 張新相片。


[Mart'di] Le saviez-vous ? Yves Klein organisait des performances, lors desquelles des "pinceaux vivants" marquaient leur empreinte sur de grandes toiles posées à terre. Il nomme cette technique "anthropométrie" https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/ck4aGAe/r7kXyd/fr



BBC Culture Happy birthday to this incredible man who invented a colourhttp://bbc.in/YXPnSi




‪#‎TBT‬ to our 1982 Yves Klein retrospective when International Klein Blue covered the floor of the Guggenheim rotunda. Klein patented this resonant, powdery ultramarine pigment, claiming that it represented the physical manifestation of cosmic energy that, otherwise invisible, floats freely in the air: http://gu.gg/HJ0Db





Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum



Teachers—use our new online arts curriculum to explore themes from the exhibition "ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s" in the classroom: http://gu.gg/DsWcM Image: Yves Klein, Untitled Fire Painting (F 81), ca. 1961





Yves Klein’s ‘Monotone’ Symphony Is Headed to New York
By CAROL VOGEL 5:45 PM ET




In a re-creation of a legendary 1960 art event, Dominique Lévy has arranged a performance of Yves Klein’s “Monotone-Silence.”

features an eye-catching facade of an Yves Klein blue,



Early in 1961, at about the time Warhol was piecing together the first moves in his grand career strategy, a reporter asked Yves Klein, a founder of the Neo-Realist movement, what he would do if offered a job as head of General Motors.

"Would you give up art?"

"Why not?" Klein replied. "It's a good job."


Yves Klein 相關的中文書有一本.不知藏在那兒....
Yves Klein

Artist


Yves Klein was 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. Wikipedia


Born: April 28, 1928, Nice, France
Died: June 6, 1962, Paris, France
Artwork: Blue Monochrome, Anthropometry: Princess Helena, More
Periods: Nouveau réalisme, Conceptual art, Monochrome painting
Yves Klein : Symphonie Monotone-Silence - YouTube


www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkHoWUwxEFM‎


Jun 30, 2011 - Uploaded by QUEDEAR

Symphonie 'Monotone-Silence', 1947-1948 "During this period of concentration, I created, around 1947 ...



Symphonie Monotone Silence - YouTube

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Nov 22, 2006 - Uploaded by ennovus

Ausschnitt aus der Symphonie "Monotone Silence" von Yves Klein.