Yves Klein

✶April 28, 1928

†June 6, 1962

1 candle burning, 4 lit in all

About their life

Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in postwar European art. He was a 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. He developed and used International Klein Blue.

20th century French visual artist (1928–1962)

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