Yves Klein was a modern artist who understood his art as a process of constant experimentation and breaking down the boudaries of the already existing tradition of painting. With the market itself and art in general, he met as a very young child, as he comes from a family were both parents were painters of different motifs.
To understand his art, it is necessary to understand him and his way of life, because he drew everything from his thoughts and his understanding of the world. It is therefore invaluable that we have preserved his notes in diaries, where he wrote his theses, his theories of art, and where he ex-plained his art.
Because of his innovations such as Blue Mnonochromes and Anthropometries of the Blue Era, he has shaken the art market and the art world. Especially with Anthropometries of the Blue Era, as he prepared the whole event for the performans and for the making of the artefact, the artist was critisized for objectifying women and their bodies, as he used them and ordered them to paint themselves with blue color and then make a print on the paper. That way, he supposedly asserted patriarchal values. He didn’t get his hands dirty with paint, he just supervised, one can almost say he was a conducter of the spectacle. What is so controversial about this work of art is that he called the female models his “live brushes”, and the term is also used in many of his wiritngs and later in liter-ature. Femninists are therefore appaled, and they criticise and accuse him of his doings. He also inspired a lot of artists with his art. We must mention Vanessas Beecroft, who for her performans, hired girls and made them stand for hours and hours, naked infront of people.
At the debut spectacle at the Gallery, he also performed his Monotone-Silence-Symphony, which was wrote by him and was played at all major events and special occasions, including at the performans of the Anthropometries of the Blue Era.
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