Yvek Klein Research

Yves Klein Notes

• Invented this color blue, called International Klein Blue 

• He used it in a lot of his paintings, creating an abstract monochromatic art piece 

• Klein was inspired by the sky when he created this color blue; it all began when Klein and two of his art  friends were enjoying a beautiful day in France when they challenged themselves to split up the world into 3 sections, and Klein was assigned the sky. 

• Klein worked off his idea that the sky is a place of liberty, where individuals can be free from all the worries below 

• In the photo in which Klein is jumping into the air, he is really exhibiting the liberty that the sky provides us; he is telling us to jump into this freedom in the air through this photo. 

• Klein was curious about how humans connect their feelings to colors, and wondered how people may feel when they look at his blue 

• Klein was a significant artist in post-war era

• One stand-out performance that Klein did was painted naked women in his blue color and made them press their body against a canvas, which was a very shocking approach to art in his generation. 

• His artwork is one of the most unique in that time period, or to ever be