Born in Nice, France, Yves Klein is one of the most notable figures in the french art movement, “Nouveau réalisme”. Born to painter parents, Klein began to paint in the late 1940s and formulated his first monochrome theories.
He is also noted for his blue monochrome paintings and use of different objects as brush, most famously female nudes as oversized brush in the series called anthropometries.
His signature IKB( International Klein Blue) is a deep ultramarine blue shade mixed by the artist and has been used in most of his paintings.
What inspired the IKB?
“ It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in nice that was at the origin of my career as monochromist. I started work towards the end of 1956 and in 1957 I had an exhibition in Milan which consisted entirely of what I dared to call my 'Epoque bleue'. (1957)”
“Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not.. ..All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”
lecture at the Sorbonne, 1959
IKB 79
One of the nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Klein did.
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