Yves Klein Biography

Yves Klein biography

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NAME: Yves Klein
OCCUPATION: Painter, Sculptor
BIRTH DATE: April 28, 1928
DEATH DATE: June 06, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH: Nice, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

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Yves Klein was a French painter, sculptor and performance artist whose work greatly influenced the development of minimalism.

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With no formal artistic training, Yves Klein began in the mid-1950s to exhibit nonobjective paintings in which a canvas was uniformly covered in a single color, usually blue. In 1958 he produced a near-riot with an “exhibition of emptiness,” an empty gallery painted white, titled "The Void." A member of Fluxus, his experimental works greatly influenced the development of minimalism.