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Yves Klein

(28 April 1928 – 6 June 1962)

was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art.
He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme
founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany.
Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art,
and is seen as an inspiration to, and as a forerunner of, Minimal art, as well as Pop art.


“I write my name in the blue.”
Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962.






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