Impressions Untitled Anthropometric Yves Klein
Categories Inroduction Anthropometry Torso Color Impressions About the Artist
Introduction Untitled Anthropometric is a painting series by Yves Klein. This was the aftermath of an elaborate performance piece, where Klein had female models cover their torso and thighs in blue paint, leaving their impressions on large white canvases. This book will dissect the painting into four main categories, namely, anthropometry, color, torsos, and impressions.
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Anthropometry
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Definition The scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body.
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Ancient Egypt In Ancient Egyptian art, the human figure was studied and proportions between different parts of the human body was determined, creating laws constituting a canon of proportions.
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Ancient Greece Twisted, contorted bodies, intertwining human figures, muscular and flesh-like sculptures, the ancient Greeks believed that man is the center of all things. They were obsessed with perfecting the human body, creating the classical ideal type that we still use today.
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Torsos Yves Klein believed that toros were the anthropometric symbol that served as the pure canon of human proportion.
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“[Tosros are] [t]he most concentrated expression of vital energy imaginable.� -Yves Klein
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He asked models to place paint on their breast, torso and thighs, reducing the torso to its essentials.
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He was not only interested in the shape of the female body, but also by the emotional atmosphere it embodies. 23
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Color In 1960 Klein patented International Klein Blue (IKB).
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His usage of one color aimed to evoke art beyond the art of painting. 27
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“Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colours partake.�
-Yves Klein
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Throughout his works, Klein aimed to search for the essences of things, using torsos as an anthropometric symbol to represent “the most concentrated expression of vital energy�, and the color blue as the embodiment of all things, such as the sea and the sky.
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Klein emptied perceptions of line and form, and focused on...
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Impressions
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In 1960, he staged a public premiere to showcase his new medium.
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It was an elaborate public performance
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where he used used nude women as paintbrushes.
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Klein was inspired by Judo where powdered marks were left on the mat, leaving a trace of the match behnid.
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He believed the model’s impressions represents the “health that brings humans into being.�
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About the Artist
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Yves Klein
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Painter
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Writer
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Sculptor
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Performance Artist
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and composed his first one note Symphonie Monotone.
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The Void
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Monochrome and Fire
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Born April 28, 1928 Nice, France
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Died June 6, 1962 Paris, France
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List of Photography
1. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 2. Untitled Anthropometric, Yves Klein. 1961. 3. Tomb of Sarenput II. Tomb 31, Aswan, Egypt. 1912 B.C.E. 4. Laocoön and His Sons, Greece, 323 BCE – 31 CE. 5. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 6. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 7. Venus Bleue, Yves Klein. 1962. 8. Anthropometry of the Blue Period, Yves Klein. 1960. 9. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 10. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 11. Studio of Yves Klein. Paris. 1961. 12. Studio of Yves Klein. Paris. 1961. 13. Studio of Yves Klein. Paris. 1961. 14. Untitled Shroud Athropometry, Yves Klein. 1960. 15. Portrait of Yves Klein during the shooting the documentary of Peter Morley “The Heartbeat of France”. 1961. 16. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 17. Monochrome Bleu, Yves Klein. 1959. 18. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 19. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 20. Anthropometry performance at the Galerie internationale d’art contemporai, Yves Klein. 1960. 21. Anthropometry performance at the Galerie internationale d’art contemporai, Yves Klein. 1960. 22. Yves Klein with a judo partner, Paris.1955. 23. People Begin to Fly, Yves Klein. 1961. 24. Impressions Film Still, Mentalla Sayed. 2020. 25. Yves Klein in Proposte Monochrome Exhibition, 1957. 26. Leap into the Void, Yves Klein. 1960. 27. Yves Klein in his studio, 1959. 28. Yves Klein directing Symphony Monotone, 1959. 29. The Void, Yves Klein. 1961. 30. The Void, Yves Klein. 1961. 31. The Void, Yves Klein. 1961. 32. Monochrome and Fire, Yves Klein. 1961. 33. Monochrome and Fire, Yves Klein. 1961.
References
Artsy.net. 2020. [online] Available at: <https://www.artsy. net/article/artsy-editorial-yves-klein-legacy-is-much-morethan-blue> [Accessed 5 May 2020]. Guggenheim. 2020. Miyuki Okuyama, Claudine And Her Mother, 2013. [online] Available at: <https://www. guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/yves-klein> [Accessed 5 May 2020]. Thackara, T., 2020. Yves Klein’S Legacy Is About Much More Than Blue. [online] Artsy. Available at: <https://www.artsy. net/article/artsy-editorial-yves-klein-legacy-is-much-morethan-blue> [Accessed 5 May 2020]. Walkerart.org. 2020. Feminism And Yves Klein’S Anthropométries. [online] Available at: <https://walkerart. org/magazine/feminism-and-yves-kleins-anthropometries> [Accessed 5 May 2020]. Walkerart.org. 2020. Yves Klein. [online] Available at: <https://walkerart.org/collections/artists/yves-klein> [Accessed 5 May 2020]. Images: (ca. 1912 BCE). Tomb of Sarenput II; unfinished figure. [wall painting]. Retrieved from https://library.artstor.org/asset/ KOZLOFF_1039788569 (1870). Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Photograph, ca. 1870, of a sculpture by Agesander of Rhodes.. [Photographic prints]. Retrieved from https:// library.artstor.org/asset/24905794 Yves Klein. (1970). Venus Bleue. [Sculpture and Installations]. Retrieved from https://library.artstor.org/ asset/LARRY_QUALLS_10311712153
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