For Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” nude women covered their bodies in his signature blue paint and lay down on paper, or were dragged across it. This one was created circa 1960. Credit ...

The one thing most people know about Yves Klein, if they know anything at all, is that in 1960 he had himself photographed swan-diving off the ledge of a roof in Paris, hovering in midair above an ...

Picasso and his Blue Period have nothing on Yves Klein, who created art almost exclusively in a shade of his own invention. Yves Klein, a French artist working in the mid-20th century, took his ...

[Photo: Pantone] Classic Blue also hints at a relationship to other popular blues. There’s Klein Blue, a more vibrant blue, invented by the artist Yves Klein in the 1960s and even inducted into ...

Yves Klein, the radical French artist and judo black belt who patented his own shade of ultramarine International Klein Blue (IKB) and used naked women as human paintbrushes is the latest artist ...

Introducing Yves Klein blue. Similar to Pantone’s Colour of the Year for 2020, this colour is somewhat like the sophisticated, older sibling to a classic, royal blue. Having been spotted ...

Pantone has announced its Colour of the Year for 2020, revealing “Classic Blue“ as the “reassuring” shade to represent the coming year.. Every year since 2000, the Pantone Colour Institute ...

British artist Stuart Semple has been ordered by a French court to pay €16,000 ($18,200) in damages for selling a paint he called Easy Klein—a vivid blue he spent a decade developing as a ...

Yves Klein was an artist, showman and inventor – who created a hue that had never existed before. How did he achieve this? Alastair Sooke reports.