Yves Klein
I didn't get why some of the modern arts in Pompidou is so popular, for example, there is this painting with only blue paints on it. It's literally a paint only covered with blue paints. So after coming back from Pompidou, I did some research on this guy Yves Klein with his blue painting.
Yves Klein was born Nice, he was an important post-war European artist. He leads the French artistic movement of Nouveau realisme with other artists. Nouveau realisme refers to the new ways of perceiving the real. It was an inspiration to minimal art as well as pop art.
In his exhibition "Proposted Monochrome, Epoca Blu"(Proposition Monochrome; Blue Epoch) had a great success. It featured 11 identical blue canvases, using ultramarine pigment.
In Art market Yves Klein's painting was among the top five sellers at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale in 2006. He's monochromatic blue painting sold for $4,720,000 and the monochromatic gold sold for $21,000,000. It is crazy that people will buy a blue canvas for that much money. Some times I don't get the art world.
Even I did some researches for art, I still don't fully understand how art world works. I only got one conclusion, which is everyone can be an artist, you just need to be born at the right period.
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