Art History - Yves Klein

In my Art History 2023-2024 blog post, I decided December would be Yves Klein. Here are some resources and my planning notes:

Yves Klein
1928 - 1962

also

https://www.yvesklein.com

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/yves-klein-1418

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/yves-klein

A Sound, Then Silence (Try Not to Breathe)
The New York Times - Sep 17, 2013

Who Is Yves Klein?
Tate Kids

Unit 8: 1962–1974
Lesson Five: Performance into Art
Oxford Art Online

I Was a Nude Model for a Half Hour. Revelatory? Actually, Yes.
The New York Times - May 24, 2024
“Sculpture Tactile”

Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Blue (With Living Paintbrushes)
The New York Times - May 16, 2024

Yves Klein – Anthropometries | TateShots
Youtube

Yves Klein - On Fire
Tornabuoni Art

ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s (PDF)
Guggenheim

New Definitions of Painting
Everyday Materials
Process
Environment
Network

Yves Klein and His Use of Blue: How These 5 Facts Made Him Famous

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week of Dec 3:

Sun
read

Yves Klein Painted Everything Blue and Wasn't Sorry
by Fausto Gilberti

do activities from ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow (PDF)
"New Definitions of Painting"
p.4, Further Explorations #3

IKB 79 (1959)

Sponge (SE 328) (1959)

Yves Klein in his studio surrounded by his Sponge Sculptures, 1959

Not Cool Blue
Jolie Teal
Majestic Blue


Mon

Performance into Art lesson from Oxford Art Online

Anthropometry: Princess Helena (1960)

Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 106) (1960)


Sat

read quote from Oxford Art Online lesson:
"Klein claimed that International Klein Blue reminded him of the color of the sea and sky of his hometown on the Mediterranean coast of France. Using this color, he made many monochrome paintings, which he believed symbolized limitless space. He said, 'Through color, I feel a total identification with space; I am truly free!'"

read

Infinity and Me
by Kate Hosford

demonstrate to the children how to make a Möbius strip (and cut it in half to double it)

look at pictures of the daytime & nighttime sky in Mongolia

daytime sky #1

daytime sky #2

daytime sky #3

nighttime sky #1

nighttime sky #2

nighttime sky #3

use colored pencils on heavy vellum to make a piece of artwork that represents how the endless sky makes you feel

cut a strip of your artwork and turn it into a Möbius strip!


other ideas:
knit a Möbius strip... or take any scarf you have and sew the two ends together to become one

for more fun with a Möbius strip, enjoy this video

week of Dec 10:

Sat
Wreck This Art
draw on watercolor paper with water-soluble markers and then put your drawing out in the rain to see what happens!

(I suggest setting a timer and going to check on the artwork at 10 minute intervals so it doesn't completely disappear)

week of Jan 1:

Mon
Is It Music? lesson plan


Tue

do activities from ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow (PDF)
"Process," page 7
p.8, View and Discuss, Further Explorations #3, #4

work in small groups

supplies provided: colored construction paper, assorted materials from the paper recycling bin, colored pencils, scissors, glue sticks

Untitled Fire Painting (F 81) (1961)

Untitled Fire Painting (F 6) (1961)

Untitled Fire Painting (F 24) (1961)

Untitled Fire Painting (F 27) (1961)

Untitled Fire Painting (F 82) (1961)

Yves Klein at work, 1961

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