Mephisto2

So Milo is "just clever?" Mondrian is "just clever?" What about Matisse?

What about Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin (enfant terrible of the BritPop movement)?

How "clever" was it for Andy Warhol to take a photograph of an accident and sell it as art? Indeed, is photography art in your opinion at all? What about his famous Marilyn Monroe prints?

Your comment "It's just a blue box" is very interesting. What does it mean to you? The fact that you're talking about it means something.

I'm not trying to be nasty, but this simply shows ignorance of the facts in this particular case. Klein spent years developing his famous blue colours. In fact this colour, or IKB (International Klein Blue) as it became known, was so new that it was successfully patented. From 1949 onwards he concentrated on blue and from 1957 onwards he painted 194 paintings in IKB.

Klein was one of the "New Realists" and is considered by most of the art world to be a master.

In 1954 Klein said "I believe that in the future, people will start painting pictures in one single colour, and nothing else but colour." He was a visionary, in the same way that Jackson Pollack was a visionary. I recommend the book Bright Earth - Art and the Invention of Colour by Philip Ball for a fascinating look at how colour has evolved, and how certain artists have used it, over the centuries (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books).

I wonder if you consider Pollacks work to be simply "dribbles of paint?"

Untrue. Klein is a famous artist whose work is collected around the world.

I should imagine the "installation art" of Christo (he of the famous pink ribbons around famous buildings) would also not be to your liking?

Mr Mephisto