• Yves Klein (French: [iv klɛ̃]; 28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member...
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    International Klein Blue (IKB) is a deep blue hue first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein. IKB's visual impact comes from its heavy reliance on ultramarine...
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    Yves Klein Blue was an Australian indie rock band from Brisbane, which formed in 2005 and disbanded in 2010. The line-up included Chris Banham on drums...
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  • Rotraut Klein-Moquay, known by the mononym Rotraut (born 1938), is a German-French visual artist. She is the widow of French artist Yves Klein. Rotraut...
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  • Burden, Hermann Nitsch, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Tehching Hsieh, Yves Klein and Vito Acconci. Some of the main exponents more recently are Tania Bruguera...
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  • manufacturer Klein + M.B.O., an Italian musical group Klein Award, for comic art Yves Klein, French artist Klein bottle, an unusual shape in topology Klein geometry...
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  • movement founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany and the painter Yves Klein during the first collective exposition in the Apollinaire gallery in Milan...
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    original on 2007-09-27. Yves Klein, Weitemeier, Taschen 1994, p15 Quoted in Yves Klein, Weitemeier, Taschen 1994, p19 "Yves Klein Archive". Archived from...
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  • Monotone-Silence Symphony (category Yves Klein)
    Monoton-Silence) is a piece of minimalist music by the French artist Yves Klein. It consists of 20 minutes of an orchestra performing the chord of D major...
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    level of the esplanade Niki de Saint Phalle, which overlooks the Place Yves Klein. The gallery spaces are devoted to temporary exhibitions on the first...
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    McCracken, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, Larry Bell, Anne Truitt, Yves Klein and Frank Stella. Artists themselves have sometimes reacted against the...
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    with Yves Klein (to whom is attributed Klein-blue). In 1960 Pierre Restany created the idea and coined the term Nouveau Réalisme with Yves Klein during...
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    diverse as Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama, Giorgio Morandi, and others. Yves Klein had painted monochromes as early as 1949, and held the first private exhibition...
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  • Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle (category Books by Yves Klein)
    sensibility) is an artist's book and performance by the French artist Yves Klein. The work involved the sale of documentation of ownership of empty space...
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  • his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation...
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  • joint declaration was signed on 27 October 1960, in Yves Klein's workshop, by nine people: Yves Klein, Arman, Martial Raysse, Pierre Restany, Daniel Spoerri...
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  • IKB 79 (category Paintings by Yves Klein)
    artist Yves Klein, made in 1959. It is one of his monochrome series of around 200. It uses a shade of blue that he developed, International Klein Blue,...
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  • letterer Vilhelm Klein (1835–1913). Danish architect William Klein (1926–2022), American-born French photographer and filmmaker Yves Klein (1928–1962), French...
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    and writer Yves Klein (1928–1962), French artist Yves Netzhammer (born 1970), Swiss artist Yves Rodier (born 1967), Canadian cartoonist Yves Saint Laurent...
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  • using discarded materials like crushed or flattened cardboard boxes. Yves Klein incorporated live nude models and a symphony orchestra in his performance...
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    used a reproduction of the Venus in a performance, Yves Klein produced a copy in International Klein Blue, and artists including Arman, Clive Barker, and...
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  • soft plunk-plunk from the pianist. Monotone-Silence Symphony (1949), by Yves Klein in two movements, a single 20-minute sustained chord followed by a 20-minute...
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    Fünf Pittoresken (1919) by Erwin Schulhoff—solely comprising rests— and Yves Klein's Monotone–Silence Symphony (1949), in which the second and fourth movements...
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    in art authentication. International Klein Blue (IKB) a deep blue hue first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein. Electric ultramarine is the tone of...
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    Illusionary dark gray color International Klein Blue – Deep blue pigment first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein Super black – Highly light-absorbent surface...
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    people visit her tomb each year from all over the world. French painter Yves Klein had been dedicated to her as an infant. In 1961, he created a Shrine of...
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    used in Ancient Egypt. International Klein Blue (IKB) is a deep blue hue first mixed by the French artist Yves Klein. IKB's visual impact comes from its...
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    and works continually. Arnault's collection includes works by Picasso, Yves Klein, Henry Moore, and Andy Warhol. He was also instrumental in establishing...
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  • Marie Raymond (category Yves Klein)
    Yves were very close and she devoted much of her time to him.  Robert Fleck stated that “in order to understand the depth and energy of Yves Klein's work...
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  • Volumes One and Two. HarperCollins. Klein, Yves (1982). Overcoming the Problematics of Art: The Writings of Yves Klein. Spring Publications. Kostanski, Steven;...
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