Anthropometry of the Blue Period

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Title Anthropometry of the Blue Period
Creator Yves Klein
Creator Nationality French
Style Period 20th Century Art; Contemporary Art
Description first staged at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris; monochromes made by three nude female models who were smeared with blue paint and who then pressed their bodies against paper on the walls of the gallery and on its floor, while a twenty-piece orchestra played Klein's composition, ‘Symphonie Monoton'
Subject Performance Art
Creation Date 1960 CE
Form painting (body prints)
Medium paint on paper
Classes ARTH 4420 Modern Art 1945-1975 - Action Painting
Work ID 7641
Rights Digital Image Copyright University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6jh6xp2
Setname uu_aah_art
ID 32958
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jh6xp2
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