Biography
Each artist is madman and prophet. For six months before the flight Yuri Gagarin to the outer space, October 19, 1960, the great innovator Yves Klein made his famous "jump into the emptiness." A month later, during the festival of avant-garde art in Paris, this photo appeared in the seal and opened an article invented by the French called "Man in Space! Cosmos artist rushes into emptiness! "Childhood and youth
At the end of April, the 28th, 1928 in the family of artists living in Nice in the same house with Pit Mondrian, was born the son of Yves, who later went in the footsteps of Freda's father - the late postplayist and mother Marie - a noticeable figure in Tashizm (current In Western European Abstractionism), who received the Vasily Kandinsky Prize.
Shortly after the child's appearance, the spouses moved to Paris, and every summer the boy spent in one of the cities of Provence in adorable aunt, who had a considerable effect on the nephew.
Incredible, but the fact: despite the fact that Klyane-younger was destined to make a coup in art, he did not have a special education. He successfully studied commercial seating, oriental languages, Zen-Buddhism, was listed as a golden Ram, trained by horse horses and earned a life of judo - for "advanced training", he even went to Japan, becoming the first European, who received a black belt.
Youth biography is closely related to travel - the guy traveled six cities in Italy, served in Germany, engaged in Japanese martial arts in the UK, stayed at the riding club in Ireland and delved to National Language in Spain.
According to memoirs of a close friend of Claude Pascal, IV in 19 years old discovered the book "Cosmogonia Rosenkraucers" and did not let her out of her hands, styling daily for five years. According to the master of the master, in his youth, he was attracted in painful blue sky and annoyed the birds flying around him, "trying to break holes in the greatest creation."
Personal life
Thanks to the art of Klein, a personal life arranged. Acquaintance with the artist Rotraut Yucker turned over first to business relationships - the girl worked with his assistant and model, and then in romantic. Lovers got married January 21, 1962 in the Church of Saint-Nicolas-de-Champs - the wedding ceremony was carefully thought out by the bridegroom.Unfortunately, the marriage was short-lived - six months later, when Rotraut wore a child under the heart, Iv died. The newborn son of the widow called in honor of the spouse.
Creation
Debut monochrome work from under the artist's brushes appeared in 1949, in 1954 his book was published, where, under each smoothly painted multicolored rectangle, the city was specified in which they were created, and the exact size of millimeters. In 1955, it was the time of the first public exhibition.
1957 is taken to be the beginning of the blue period of Klein, marked by exposures in this shade and launching an aerostatic sculpture from 1001 balloons in the sky of Paris. By the way, a year earlier, for the first time in history, he invented and patented the paint International Klein Blue.
Willow always attracted all mysterious and mystical - through sensitivity, color, Christian and esoteric teachings, he compiled space and came in the end to the awareness of emptiness. In the 1958th, the closed Frenchman sent the invitation to the same exhibition to Parisians: outside the visitors were given blue drinks and surrounded the blue curtains, and the same walls were waiting inside them, a transparent cabinet and nothing else. There was another scandal, who died even to the USSR.
In the workshop of the master, the famous photo "Jump in emptiness" took a special place, created by photomontage - the landing of Will was not on the bridge, but on sports mats. However, the author has never grudge to resort to other non-traditional drawing methods, as a result, with the help of rain and wind, cosmogony was born, thanks to human bodies - anthropometry, and fiery painting was also a mansion.
Death
The great French innovator who worked in the styles of new realism and minimalism, was not in the sixth summer day of 1962 in Paris. On the eve of, he managed to visit the film show Mondo Cane at the Cannes Film Festival, who humiliated it and led to the first heart attack. The second, which happened on the day of the original donner à voir, and served as death.After the final jump of the artist in the emptiness for several decades, its large-scale exhibitions around the world, the preservation of heritage and property was engaged in the widow of Klein.
Paintings
- 1949 - "Horse"
- 1951 - "Landscape"
- 1951 - "Christ carries the cross"
- 1955, 1956 - "Green Monochrom"
- 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959 - "Blue Monochr"
- 1956 - "Yellow Monochrome"
- 1956, 1957 - "Red Monochr"
- 1956, 1957 - "Pink Monochrome"
- 1957 - "Blue Globe" ("Blue Planet")
- 1960 - "Anthropometry"
- 1960 - "Cosmogonia"
- 1960 - "Jump in emptiness" (photo)
- 1961 - "Wind of Travel"
- 1961 - "California"
- 1961 - "People start to fly"