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Yves Klein was a French artist known for his unique artistic style and philosophical ideas. Born on April 28, 1928, and passing away on June 6, 1962, Klein's art was characterized by its distinctive blue tones, including the creation of the famous 'International Klein Blue'. His works spanned various mediums such as painting, sculpture, and photography, and he is considered one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

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“I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.”

Movement Mets Empty Blue Depth

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“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'.”

Ends Careers Nice Sky Blue Remembered Colour Exhibitions Milan

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“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.”

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“At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.”

Firsts Blue Profound Nothingness Profundity

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“Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”

Sea Sky Blue Abstract Visible Sea And Sky

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“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.”

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“As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.”

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Book:Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial

Source: Yves Klein: Long Live the Immaterial

“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.”

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“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.”

Blue Dimensions Color Blue

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About the Author

Born: April 28, 1928
Died: June 6, 1962
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 32

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