Anthropometries series

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The Anthropometries series is a group of avant-garde performance-based paintings by Yves Klein created using nude human bodies as living paintbrushes to imprint pigment onto canvases.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art series
painting series
performance art
artForm live performance
painting
artisticGoal to merge performance and painting
to use human body as a living paintbrush
associatedColor International Klein Blue
colorDominance blue
countryOfOrigin France
creator Yves Klein
creatorNationality French
creatorOccupation artist
depicts traces of human bodies
exhibitionPractice canvases exhibited as autonomous paintings after performance
genre abstract art
hasInfluenceOn body art
conceptual art
performance art
hasPart Anthropometry of the Blue Period
inceptionContext live performances with orchestra and audience
languageOfTitle French
locationOfFirstPublicPerformance Galerie Internationale d’Art Contemporain, Paris
method artist orchestrates actions without touching canvas
models directed to press paint-covered bodies onto canvas
movement Nouveau réalisme
linked to: Nouveau Réalisme

avant-garde art
notableFor integration of music, audience, and painting process
use of nude models as living brushes
notableWorkOf Yves Klein
originalTitle Anthropométries
period postwar art
productionPeriod early 1960s
relatedConcept dematerialization of the artist’s hand
indexical mark
relatedWork Monochrome paintings by Yves Klein
startTime 1960
subjectMatter human body imprint
usesMaterial canvas
nude human bodies
pigment
usesTechnique body printing
performance-based painting

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Yves Klein notableWork Anthropometries series
Anthropometries series hasPart Anthropometry of the Blue Period
linked to: Anthropometries series