Many artists go through stages where they take inspiration from extremely specific muses. Yves Klein, a French abstract artist working in the mid-20th century, took “Blue Period” to a new level. Klein ...

Yves Klein made one thing clear in his 34 brief years on this Earth: Blue was his everything. “Blue has no dimensions,” the French artist, who was born on April 28, 1928, once declared. “It is beyond ...

Fascinated with cosmology, spirituality, space and nothing but the sensual, Yves Klein charted his own unique, path, achieving immortality. Yves Klein, Ant 50, 1960. Synthetic resin and lipstick on ...

In honor of Yves Klein (1928 – 1962), groundbreaking artist, judo master and philosopher, today's post will be printed in the Wordpress approximation of IKB (International Klein Blue)--a color ...

The one thing most people know about Yves Klein, if they know anything at all, is that in 1960 he had himself photographed swan-diving off the ledge of a roof in Paris, hovering in midair above an ...

French provocateur Yves Klein—he of the paint-slathered models rolled across canvases—tried his hand at a new medium in 1961: the cocktail table. He made two prototypes, sprinkling pigments into wood ...

Yves Klein burst onto the French art scene in 1954 with a series of edgy, esoteric art exhibitions in which he tried to capture the immaterial. In doing so, he also captured the imagination of a weary ...

On a late afternoon walk along the banks of the Seine in the summer of 1912, Jacques Guerlain was so inspired by the twilight—or the moment when, as he said, “the night has not yet found its ...

’Yves Klein Blue,’ named in the 1950s for its artist creator, is suddenly everywhere Fall fashion runways were awash in blue—a particular and vibrant version that showed up on a Diane von Furstenberg ...