![Yves Klein 1960 “Le Saut dans le Vide” or “Leap into the Void”
Yves Klein (1928 –1962 died age 34 after suffering 3 heart attacks) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of Performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of Minimal art, as well as Pop art.
Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void); Photomontage by Harry Shunk of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.Klein is also well known for a photomontage, Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void) [3], originally published in the artist’s book Dimanche, which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement. Klein used the photograph as evidence of his ability to undertake unaided lunar travel. In fact, “Saut dans le vide”, published as part of a broadside on the part of Klein (the “artist of space”) denouncing NASA’s own lunar expeditions as hubris and folly, was a photomontage in which the large tarpaulin Klein leaped onto was removed from the final image.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luqszsf2cc1qb3177o1_500.jpg)
Yves Klein 1960 “Le Saut dans le Vide” or “Leap into the Void”
Yves Klein (1928 –1962 died age 34 after suffering 3 heart attacks) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by the art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of Performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of Minimal art, as well as Pop art.
Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void); Photomontage by Harry Shunk of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.Klein is also well known for a photomontage, Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void) [3], originally published in the artist’s book Dimanche, which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement. Klein used the photograph as evidence of his ability to undertake unaided lunar travel. In fact, “Saut dans le vide”, published as part of a broadside on the part of Klein (the “artist of space”) denouncing NASA’s own lunar expeditions as hubris and folly, was a photomontage in which the large tarpaulin Klein leaped onto was removed from the final image.
British officials deem Dakota Fanning’s image in Marc Jacobs’s new campaign too racy for a minor. Do you agree? Yes or No….?
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This is a letter addressed to Andy Warhol in 1965…its from his landlord, regarding his parties…if they only knew there were heroin-addicted transvestites living in the elevator…
Live in Los Angeles? Join me as I host the L.A. Art History Meetup Group at the Norton Simon Museum next Sunday. We are going to see the Johannes Vermeer painting that is on loan before it’s gone. This is the only Vermeer painting on display on the west coast! http://t.co/KNB6TW2
“Death of Marat” a 1793 painting in the Neoclassical style by Jacques-Louis David
My Top 5 most favorite paintings in the whole world:
Russian Cubo- Futurism: Kasimir Malevich’s “Morning in the Village after Snowstorm” 1912
Caravaggio, St. Catherine at the Wheel 1595. It was rumored that Caravaggio used a prostitute for his model of St. Catherine, I can see it in her eyes….
Arshile Gorky The Artist and His Mother (ca. 1926-1936)
Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. In 1915 Gorky fled Lake Van duuring the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the aftermath of the genocide, Gorky’s mother died of starvation in Yerevan in 1919.
When Gorky showed his new work to André Breton in the 1940s, after seeing the new paintings and in particular The Liver is the Cock’s Comb, Breton declared the painting to be “one of the most important paintings made in America” and he stated that Gorky was a Surrealist, which was Breton’s highest compliment
This peak period of Gorky’s work was cut short. His final years were filled with immense pain and heartbreak. His studio barn burned down, he underwent a colostomy for cancer, his neck was broken and his painting arm temporarily paralyzed in a car accident, and his wife of seven years left him, taking their children with her. Gorky hanged himself in Sherman, Connecticut, in 1948, at the age of 44.
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True or False: This painting was rejected by the church because it showed a dead Virgin Mary modeled after a a corpse of a prostitute. Hint: it was also painted by a convicted murderer!
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