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Artist: Yves Klein (1928 - 1962)
Nationality: French
Movement: Conceptual Art
Media: Painting, Conceptual Artist
Influences:

Biography:
Yves Klein was born to two painter parents, but received no formal artistic training. From 1952 to 1953, he lived in Japan where he earned a black belt in judo. Upon his return, he worked for sometime as a judo instructor until the 1950’s, when he began exhibiting his paintings. His paintings during this period were typically monochromatic canvasses, normally blue. Klein also had other unusual methods of painting including allowing rain to fall on paper, using a flamethrower, and making prints of the human body. He became famous across Europe but failed to gain praise in the United States after an exhibition at the Castelli gallery in New York in 1961. He died of a heart attack at a young age but produced a vast body of work and held wide influence during his short life.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Muskegon Museum of Art: Second Nature: Drawings by Karen Klein
She does start with a careful and close study of nature, but transforms what she observes. Referring to the great artist James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Klein notes that as an artist she must arrange and harmonize into a glorious unity what she pick...
Leica Gallery: Iris Klein: SHE, HER and ME
Described as “ghostly, graceful, and beautiful…”(Wiener Zeitung), Klein’s work amplifies the subtle boundaries between reality and fiction, projecting feelings from an introverted perspective that visualize half-conscious anxieties and sentimental...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: On the Sublime: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, James Turrell
Although the concept of the sublime is most often identified with nineteenth-century Romanticism, the first century CE philosopher Longinus is credited with one of the earliest discussions. In On t...
Tate Modern: Performing Bodies
Artists include Yoko Ono, Derek Jarman, Laurie Anderson, Gilbert and George, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sarah Lucas, Yves ...
Plug In: Back in the Day: Plug In 2002–1972
Gillies has focused her scrutiny on the ‘70s, saying she wishes to recreate the ambience of the period by concentrating on the conversational exchanges so crucial to the early scene. Video interviews with artists active during Plug In’s first deca...
Bayly Art Museum: Photography Against Itself: Contemporary Photographs from the Museum Collection
The exhibition which runs through August20 in the Graphics Gallery, includes work by Tina Barney, David Levinthal,Joan Fontcuberta, Nancy, Burson, McDermont and McGough, Ken Matsubara, James Welling, Duane Michals, JohnPfahl, Peter Feldstein, John...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...
Fotomuseum, Winterthur: Remake Berlin: CleggandGuttmann, Astrid Klein, Remy Markowitsch, Boris Mikhailov, Juergen Teller, Frank Thiel, Celine van Balen and Stephen Wilks
What is BerlinNULL One thing is certain: today's Berlin can only be described as a collection of diverse phenomena. The words I am a Berliner, uttered by John F. Kennedy in 1963, are no longer valid; at best, they would have to have been ...
Plug In: Billboard Project Features Tighty-whitey by David Wityk
From the fashion magazine spread to the runway to the stage, this once-purely practical garment has been elevated to sex-symbol and superstar status. Wityk is completing his final year in photography at the University of Manitoba School of Art. Wi...
Jewish Museum: Modigliani: Beyond the Myth
Known primarily for his paintings of reclining nudes and his portraits with elegantly elongated features, Modigliani was an anomaly among the artists (many of them foreign-born Jews) who were active in the Parisian avant-garde in the early 20th ce...
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Delay: Maja Bajevic, Pavel Braila, Freek Drent & Stella van Voorst van Beest, Roderick Hietbrink, Juul Hondius, Carla Klein, Predrag Pajdic, Anri Sala
In 2004 the European Union was expanded with ten countries. DELAY connects with this widening of the frontiers. Several artists are active in a borderland. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen gathers together work by Maja Bajevic (1967, former Yugos...
Photographer's Gallery: Coromandel Express
The publications match a short story with exclusive signed photographs, printed in editions limited to between 50 and 80 copies. The Photographers' Gallery will display work from these pu...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Solitude and Focus: Recent Work by MacDowell Colony Fellows in the Visual Arts
Organized by Richard Klein, Aldrich director of exhibitions, the exhibition will represent a cross-section of visual arts disciplines, including photography, painting, drawing, animation, sculpture, printmaking, video, and installation. Participat...
Contemporary Arts Center: My Reality: The Culture of Anime
The work in the show explores anime's slick conventions, such as futuristic technology, cyborgs, fantastical creatures and post-apocalyptic landscapes, as well as such themes as changing gender roles and the explosion of consumerism. My ...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Mobius: CONSUMER: I am the Consenting Part of the Fashion System - An installation by Sand T
As art revolves around fashion and politics, it is always burdened by predictability, repetition and conservatism. In addition, economics has forced much of art to pander to attention grabbing and celebrity marketing to compe...
Jewish Museum: ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION
The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist‚s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant ex...
Sasol Art Museum: PRINT EXCHANGE 1998-1999: PORTFOLIO FOR PLAYING CARDS
South African artists, for example Lien Botha, Pieter van der Westhuizen, Robert Siwangaza, Nhlanhla Xaba, Lyn Smuts, Billy Mandindi, Jacob Motsoane, Carol Hofmeyer, Titia Ballot and Sophie Peters, and Flemish printers, for example An Bloc...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: Ink Jet: Matt Chansky, Claire Corey, Tom Moody
These artists all trained as painters and made the transition into the digital realm through experiences in the workplace. Rather than simply scanning and manipulating images, Chansky, Corey, and Moody have each struggled in their own...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
In 1959, Castellani produced the first of his structured surfaces by putting nuts behind the canvas to form reliefs in order to emphasise the physicality of the surface as well as the dynamism of space. He went on to develop the technique that ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Grace Knowlton: A Two-part Exhibition
In these works, Knowlton’s line is boldly marked on softly toned four-panel canvases to create energetic and quirky abstractions that recall the automatic writing of Surrealists and first generation Abstract Expressionists. The artist’s sph...
Stedelijk Museum: Mapping the City
Two ideas are at the heart of the exhibition: the flâneur, a type first described by Charles Baudelaire around 1850, and the activity of dérive, a practice coined by French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord. The flâneur, a detached observer ...
Laguna Art Museum: 100 Artists See God
The exhibition brings together 100 works by 100 artist who all explore different notions of God, spiritual power, and religion. The artists were invited by Baldessari and Cranston according to several criteria: either because they know and admire...
Association for Visual Arts: Monument: An Exhibition of Works in Cast Iron by Cobus van Bosch
In the process it becomes something of an anti-monument, remembering unmonumental experiences in life that hardly ever finds itself eternalised in precious bronze monuments, but actually constitute some of the most durable impacts on human life. T...
Joao Ferreira Fine Art: Nicholas Hales: Adytum
The work utilizes the house (building) as a metaphor for self (Jungian dream analysis). As starting points for the work, the artist drew on the houses and buildings (walls, windows, doors and tiled sections of shop fronts) around his studio in Woo...
Tampa Museum of Art: My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation
While anime has its origins in American animation, it is equally ...
M + B: Les Jeunes Talents: Nine Southern California Art Students Return from France
“This invitation to France is an opportunity to promote emerging young American talents and to strengthen our partnership with universities,” says Alain Belais, Cultural Attaché at the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles. “Thanks to the par...
Oliewenhuis Art Museum: Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005
Wim Botha graduated from the University of Pretoria in 1996 and has since become one of the most prominent young contemporary artists in South Africa. Included in Botha’s Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition is the Mieliepap Pietà, a life-...
Bell-Roberts Art Gallery: Doreen Southwood: The Swimmer
It is a space where oppression and depression which are continually swept under the carpet in favour of a more acceptable outward appearance. Doreen details the pathologies and symptoms that attend this denial. Symptom relieving drugs domestic cra...
Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...
Haus der Kunst: Hand Work: Senta Connert, Jochen Flinzer, Leni Hoffmann, Charles Long, Peter Rösel
The exhibition attempts to show artistic positions that give these 'handicraft' or 'children's' activities an equally modern, radical and conceptual meaning as work with the video ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century
World Without End brings together some 200 works of acclaimed ...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Daido Moriyama
Early influenced from the west, by the work of William Klein, Andy Warhol, and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Moriyama found an energetic, dynamic way to depict the clash of the old/new, to show the Japan that was morphing into an Asian version of Am...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
PS1 Contemporary Art Center: Uniform: Order and Disorder
The artists: Adel Abdessemed, Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Lina Bertucci, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Chris Burden, Maurizio Ca...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000 begins at the point at which photographers began to make work that was in part a reaction to this established vocabulary, and at the same time a continuation and extension of its tradition. The exhibition w...
Irish Museum of Modern Art: The Unblinking Eye: Lens-based Art from the Collection
The Unblinking Eye comprises approximately 40 works, and draws on a wide range of practices, all of which incorporate the camera to make artworks of great diversity and technique. Works range from photoworks which document performances by artists...
Modern Museum: David Bailey: Birth of the Cool
Bailey remembers that when he was growing up in the East End of London, he saw three alternatives for his future: to be a boxer, a trumpet player or a car thief. So he bought himself a trumpet and tried to play in the spirit of Chet Baker, bu...
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art: Scripted Spaces
The title of the exhibition refers to the installation 'Scripted Spaces: The Chase and the Labyrinth' presented by the critic and novelist Norman Klein, in collaboration with ...
OBORO: Sabrina Raaf: Flotte/Float
Float features a panoply of “creative machines” from Lost— a stranded meta-Lander submerged in a miniaturized and kinetic crater space; and Searchstoretrash—a labyrinthine sculpture parodying the “information superhighway”; to Grower—the “rover” t...

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