Picture "Edition Original I" (1964)
Picture "Edition Original I" (1964)
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limited, 130 copies | numbered | mixed media on cardboard | framed | size 38 x 54 cm
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Picture "Edition Original I" (1964)
This triptych titled "Edition Original I" by Yves Klein was created around 1964. It is part of the portfolio of the same name, in which artists such as Arman, Christo, Lucio Fontana, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker also participated. The painter worked with his characteristic blue pigment throughout his artistic career. Only in his late work did the colour palette become broader. The gold was a product of his artist's book and the performance "Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle" (1959-62).
Gold leaf and pigment in transparent plastic foil on cardboard, 1964. Edition: 130 copies, illegibly numbered. Published by Hans Möller, Hofhaus Presse (Düsseldorf). Size in frame 38 x 54 cm as shown.
About Yves Klein
Yves Klein (1928-1962) worked with his characteristic blue pigment throughout his artistic career. It was only in his late work that he broadened his colour palette.
Klein later recounted a formative experience and thus also provides an explanation for his obsession with the colour blue: "As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work."
Klein is considered an important pioneer of the Nouveau Realisme genre. However, the conceptual works of the internationally renowned Frenchman are also close to the works of the German ZERO movement around Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker and the Arte Povera of, for example, Lucio Fontana.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.