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txlovely · 11-21-2003, 09:00 AM

Keep in mind this was painted in 1960 when this style was really coming about. Here is some explanation I found that can help qualify the artistic value to some perhaps:

"The work of Yves Klein emanates from a new design of the function of the artist. This one is never to be strictly accurate the author of a work since, according to Klein, the beauty already exists, in an invisible state...The first monochromic ones of the beginning of the Fifties, which express the sensitivity at the pure state, with "paintings of fire" of the last year of its life where one of the four elements is expressed under the direction of the artist, in fact the cosmos becomes visible. The reduction of the colors to the blue patented by Klein makes play pictorial matter the role of the air, of the vacuum, of which, for Yves Klein, are born the force from the spirit and imagination. Lastly, the "technique of the alive brushes", or "anthropometry", amounts leaving with the human body the care to make the table, thus putting the artist in withdrawal.
It is understood that this artistic practice fully finds its direction only in reference to a singular design of the world that Klein starting from parallel experiments was forged: Japanese judo (: practical of art) founded on the forces and natural elements of cosmos (water, air, fire, ground), for the visualization and the assimilation of positive or contradictory energies, and the esoteric philosophy of the Rosicrucian brotherhood which seeks the spiritual forces controlling the Universe.

Far from being a formal artistic step, the activity of Yves Klein is thus controlled by a cosmology which turns into to world the principal actor of art. It is this idea of the world as works which Klein brings to the New Realism . But if all its work is directed by a spiritual need which led it to widen the field of the usual artistic techniques, all the following generation, which refuses the aesthetic object, nevertheless knew to inherit its innovations, beyond its party taken mystical."

Take it for what it is - much of what there is to appreciate is in the technique itself. This is not at all to say I would like it hanging in my home, just a little bit of knowledge to apply when observing the painting itself.

11-21-2003, 09:00 AM	#21 (permalink)
txlovely Insane Location: ...We have a problem.	Keep in mind this was painted in 1960 when this style was really coming about. Here is some explanation I found that can help qualify the artistic value to some perhaps: "The work of Yves Klein emanates from a new design of the function of the artist. This one is never to be strictly accurate the author of a work since, according to Klein, the beauty already exists, in an invisible state...The first monochromic ones of the beginning of the Fifties, which express the sensitivity at the pure state, with "paintings of fire" of the last year of its life where one of the four elements is expressed under the direction of the artist, in fact the cosmos becomes visible. The reduction of the colors to the blue patented by Klein makes play pictorial matter the role of the air, of the vacuum, of which, for Yves Klein, are born the force from the spirit and imagination. Lastly, the "technique of the alive brushes", or "anthropometry", amounts leaving with the human body the care to make the table, thus putting the artist in withdrawal. It is understood that this artistic practice fully finds its direction only in reference to a singular design of the world that Klein starting from parallel experiments was forged: Japanese judo (: practical of art) founded on the forces and natural elements of cosmos (water, air, fire, ground), for the visualization and the assimilation of positive or contradictory energies, and the esoteric philosophy of the Rosicrucian brotherhood which seeks the spiritual forces controlling the Universe. Far from being a formal artistic step, the activity of Yves Klein is thus controlled by a cosmology which turns into to world the principal actor of art. It is this idea of the world as works which Klein brings to the New Realism . But if all its work is directed by a spiritual need which led it to widen the field of the usual artistic techniques, all the following generation, which refuses the aesthetic object, nevertheless knew to inherit its innovations, beyond its party taken mystical." Take it for what it is - much of what there is to appreciate is in the technique itself. This is not at all to say I would like it hanging in my home, just a little bit of knowledge to apply when observing the painting itself. __________________ Cruel words erode self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.