At the age of nineteen, the mid-twentieth-century French artist Yves Klein signed the sky above Nice as his first artwork. The same year he began to compose a symphony that consisted of a single note for twenty minutes, followed by twenty minutes of absolute silence. Later, having renounced paintbrushes as “too excessively psychological,” Klein employed nude, paint-smeared (...)
Art
Blue Streak
'Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers'
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