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Blue Hole is a painting by French artist Mathieu Piffeteau. The artist uses a particular and original technique that consists of fragmenting the act of painting: he paints by strokes, square after square, line after line. Each line changes shade slightly, to produce the colour gradation that creates the desired illusion of light.
28 kwi 2020 · Yves Klein was a French artist and a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau Réalisme. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art and a forerunner of minimal art and Pop Art. Yves Klein, with his signature International Klein Blue. Photo by Charles Wilp/BPK Berlin.
17 lip 2016 · One of the most frequently used art-historical terms by academics in the field, oeuvre refers to an artist’s entire body of work. The term—which derives from opus, the Latin word for a piece of music or art—is often used to indicate the most pervasive tendencies in an artist’s output.
9 sty 2017 · As the story goes, Yves Klein ’s love affair with the color blue began when the artist was seduced by the deep cerulean skies of the French Mediterranean. “He was obsessed by the luminosity of the blue sky in Nice,” Daniel Moquay, the manager of Klein’s archive and second husband to Klein’s widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay, told me over the ...
9 paź 2019 · In 1960, Klein began a new series called the Anthropométries, inspired by his judo training and the imprint left on the mat after a judo fighter fell. The first work in this series featured a performance at the Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain in Paris, France.
24 lis 2020 · Yves Klein is a French artist, a member of the Nouveau réalisme group, and an inventor of the International Klein Blue color. This shade of blue is used in many of his famous blue paintings. During his short life, Klein made a great impact on modern art history.
Jean Philippe Arthur Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. His idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "low art" and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making.
