TASCHEN Books: Yves Klein

The TASCHEN introduction to Yves Klein, master of blue and “human paintbrushes.”
In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now considered a mainstay of postwar modernism. Klein made his name above all with his large monochrome canvases in his own patented hue of blue. International Klein Blue (IKB), composed of pure pigment and binding medium, is at once rich and luminous, evocative and decorative, and was conceived by Klein as a means of evoking the immateriality and infinitude of the world. The works of this “Blue Revolution” seem to draw us into another dimension, as if hypnotized by a perfect summer sky. Klein was also renowned for his deployment of “living brushes,” in which naked women, daubed in International Klein Blue, would make imprints of their bodies on large sheets of paper. This Basic Art introduction presents key Klein works to introduce an artist who was at once a showman, inventor, and pioneer of performance art. With page after page of the ever-alluring International Klein Blue, it is both an essential guide to a modern art master and a meditation on the unique effects of a single color.

This volume takes up the concept of one of Oehlen's recent installations, in which he juxtaposed paintings from 2008 with his post-non-figurative work from 1991. Of his recent paintings, he states, I wanted emotions! Big colorful things with immediate appeal. The book as a whole proves the range of his artistic curiosity, which challenges itself, the viewer and the medium of painting with its ever-evolving approach.

Albert Oehlen Boxed Edition [Book]

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YVES KLEIN 1928 - 1962 - INTERNATIONAL KLEIN

The TASCHEN introduction to Yves Klein, master of blue and “human paintbrushes.”

TASCHEN Books: Yves Klein

Yves Klein (Taschen Basic Art Series 2.0) by Hannah Weitemeier – Gallery Bon Bon

Yves Klein - Basic Art Series

The TASCHEN introduction to Yves Klein, master of blue and “human paintbrushes.”

TASCHEN Books: Yves Klein

Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 100) [Yves Klein]

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