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A giclée print on 200gsm matte fine art paper, using a twelve-colour process for accurate, fade-resistant colour. Supplied unframed, delivered flat or rolled.
Untitled Blue Monochrome (IKB) - Yves Klein
Prezzo originale
£37.00 GBP
Prezzo scontato
£37.00 GBP
Prezzo originale
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Descrizione
A classic example of Yves Klein's signature International Klein Blue, this monochrome work explores the power of pure colour and spatial depth.
Yves Klein, a central figure in post-war European art, developed a specific ultramarine pigment known as International Klein Blue (IKB). This work represents his pursuit of pure, immaterial space through the application of this singular colour. By removing traditional subject matter, perspective, and brushwork, Klein aimed to liberate the viewer from the constraints of figurative representation.
The surface of this piece is saturated with the synthetic resin-bound pigment, which retains a matte, velvety texture. This specific formulation ensures the colour remains consistent and intense, avoiding the reflective qualities of traditional oil paints. The uniformity of the blue surface invites a meditative engagement, where the colour itself becomes the primary object of perception.
Klein viewed his monochrome works as open windows to the infinite. He sought to create an environment where the viewer could experience the void, or the 'sensibility' of the colour. This approach moved away from the gestural abstraction common in the mid-twentieth century, favouring a controlled, conceptual application that prioritised the physical presence of the pigment. The work functions as a physical manifestation of his belief that art should transcend the material world to reach a state of pure sensation. By presenting a single, unmodulated field of colour, Klein forces an encounter with the absolute, stripping away narrative distractions to focus entirely on the optical and emotional impact of the blue hue.
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Untitled Blue Monochrome (IKB) - Yves Klein
Prezzo originale
Da £37.00 GBP
Prezzo scontato
Da £37.00 GBP
Prezzo originale
Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Yves Klein
Klein patented a colour. International Klein Blue, or IKB, is an ultramarine pigment suspended in a synthetic resin that keeps the colour saturated and matte. He registered it in 1960. The blue is so intense it appears to absorb light. He covered canvases, sponges, plaster casts, and globe sculptures in it. He covered naked women in it and pressed them against canvas (he called them 'Anthropometries' and performed the process in front of an audience while a chamber orchestra played his Monotone-Silence Symphony: twenty minutes of a single sustained chord followed by twenty minutes of silence).
He was born in Nice to artist parents and grew up between France, England, and Spain. He studied judo seriously, earning a fourth-degree black belt in Tokyo, and considered martial arts and art as related disciplines: both requiring control, precision, and the projection of force.
He exhibited an empty gallery in 1958 and called it Le Vide (The Void). Over three thousand people attended the opening. The gallery walls were painted white. There was nothing else. He served blue cocktails at the door. He sold invisible paintings (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) for gold, then threw half the gold into the Seine and burned the receipt.
He died of a heart attack in 1962, at thirty-four. His career lasted roughly eight years. In that time he made the monochromes, the Anthropometries, the fire paintings, the sponge sculptures, the void exhibitions, and enough theoretical writing to fill several volumes. He remains one of the most influential artists of the post-war period, which he would have considered insufficient recognition.
He was born in Nice to artist parents and grew up between France, England, and Spain. He studied judo seriously, earning a fourth-degree black belt in Tokyo, and considered martial arts and art as related disciplines: both requiring control, precision, and the projection of force.
He exhibited an empty gallery in 1958 and called it Le Vide (The Void). Over three thousand people attended the opening. The gallery walls were painted white. There was nothing else. He served blue cocktails at the door. He sold invisible paintings (Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility) for gold, then threw half the gold into the Seine and burned the receipt.
He died of a heart attack in 1962, at thirty-four. His career lasted roughly eight years. In that time he made the monochromes, the Anthropometries, the fire paintings, the sponge sculptures, the void exhibitions, and enough theoretical writing to fill several volumes. He remains one of the most influential artists of the post-war period, which he would have considered insufficient recognition.
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