Yves Klein in quotes on his artistic life and painting in France; free resource, French art history

Yves Klein in quotes - the artist on his painting art, his favorite colors ‘Blue’ and ‘Gold’, and his life inFrance, in the Paris’ art-scene - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in French art history

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Yves Klein was a artist, mainly creating his art in France of the 1950’s. He died young in 1962, but had a lot of impact on later ‘Zero’ artists in West-Europe. Klein as a painter created a lot of monochrome paintings, most of them in the colors ‘Blue’ and ‘Gold’ color. Klein’s quotes describe a.o. his use of flames as material to create a ‘moving sculpture’. Moreover he was pioneer in performance art: painting in blue color on the walls, with woman bodies as brush.

Klein was eagerly searching for all kind of ways to ‘dematerialize’ his art (bring it to the the ‘Void’, as he said himself). At the end of his short life in France Klein started to use fire as his medium, to paint with the flames in the air. He created a kind of fire-fountain, spraying his flames into the air.
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Some selected artist-quotes of French artist Yves Klein - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not… .All colours arouse specific associative ideas,… …while blue suggests at most the sea and sky…’ - Yves Klein’s quote from his lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris France, in 1959

• ’I want to take as the canvas for my next picture the entire surface of France… …‘The Blue Revolution’. It is the possibility of creating a monochrome picture in my new manner: ‘The Refinement of Sensibility.’ - quote of Klein, in: ‘Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writing’, London 1974, p. 43

• ’Space is waiting for our love, as I am longing for you; go with me, travelling through space…’ quote from a poem of Klein himself, c. 1956

• ’A bill for 20 grams of Pure Gold, for one painted area of sensibilized immaterial’ - quote c. 1958; Kleins own weitten text on a bill for selling ‘air’
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  selection of free art-resources on French artist Yves Klein:

  • extended biographical notes of Yves Klein, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
  • for more quotes of and about Yves Klein, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yves_Klein
  • look for images of Yves Klein’s art, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/Search/Yves Klein
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]