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Portrait Relief of Arman

Title	Portrait Relief of Arman
Artist	イヴ・クライン　Yves KLEIN
Date	1962 (original mold)
Medium	cast dry blue pigment on bronze and gilded board
Dimensions	178.0×94.0×33.0
Classification	Sculptures
Accession Number	FS198900001000
Summary	In a famous incident, Rodin was accused of having taken a direct cast from the model for The Age of Bronze because of its extraordinary realism. In the tradition of Western sculpture, taking a direct cast from the living body was strictly forbidden. Yet this taboo was deliberately broken by George Segal and Yves Klein in the 1960s, when every fixed idea about art was being called into question. Through two colors suggesting the transcendental and the powerful light emanating from behind, the body of an individual is transformed into something immaterial and ushered into the realm of eternity. Here Klein’s remarkable ability to move freely between the sacred and the secular, the individual and the universal, is displayed to its fullest.

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Native place	Nice, FRA
Birth	1928
Dead place	Paris, FRA
Died	1962
Biography	Klein was born in Nice, France. He began painting and practicing judo in 1947. He came to Japan in 1952 and stayed for two years to study judo, earning a fourth-degree black belt. He moved to Paris in 1954 and held a solo exhibition of his monochrome works the following year. In 1957, he held an exhibition titled The Blue Epoch in Milan, presenting blue paintings in the color later named International Klein Blue. He subsequently undertook a wide range of activities that transcended conventional notions of art: The Void, an exhibition in which an empty gallery space was displayed; Anthropometries, performances featuring nude women whose bodies were coated with paint; and Fire Paintings, in which canvases were burned with a gas burner. He signed the Nouveau Réalisme manifesto in 1960. In 1962, he began a series of Portrait Reliefs but died of a heart attack in Paris that same year.

Portrait Relief of Arman

Yves KLEIN