Yves Klein

the first artist who invented his own color

the pioneer of conceptual art

author
of the books Yves Peintures and the Zone of immaterial pictorial sensibility

the pioneer of conceptual art

YVES

KLEIN

In 1946, when I was still an adolescent,

I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.One day, I lay on the sand by the sea and felt hatred for the birds flying back and forth across the blue, endless sky, thereby trying to create stains on my most important and great work.

I was born in Nice in a family of painters. My parents taught me a lot, although I didn’t have a formal art education. I studied sailing, Oriental languages, judo, and it was only at the age of 26 that I decided to take up art.

In 1946, when I was still an

of changing the art world for the better with color

8 years

in the top 10 artists by auction turnover in money

9th place

was the price of my last work “Monogold”

$91 MLN.

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adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage. One day, I lay on the sand by the sea and felt hatred for the birds flying back and forth across the blue, endless sky, thereby trying to create stains on my most important and great work.

My paintings do not reflect reality, but rather reality is reflected in them. I am genuinely obsessed with color, and believe that form is essentially color.

Favorite

projects

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What museums

exhibit my art?

New York Museum of Modern Art

Georges Pompidou Center in Paris

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York

How you can

work with me?

Buy an artwork

Right
now I don't work by order, but you can buy something that is available

Acquire the emptiness

Let's stroll along the Seine promenade, throw the gold into the river, and burn the receipt

Organize a performance

Let's take art beyond the canvas and theatricalize the process of its creation

My tools are living

brushes

I create paintings with the help of human body prints on canvas.

Anthropometrics

Cosmogonies

I expose the canvases to rain, wind and dust in order to transfer the elements onto them.

Fire Painting

I draw with a gas torch and flamethrower on fortified cardboard to capture the touch of fire.

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say about me

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