Blue Women Art - Yves Klein (1962)

Blue Women Art
Starring - naked ladies all painted in blue, Yves Klein, symphony musicians
Directed by - Yves Klein

(1962) - Color - 2 min

The weird little gem is called Blue Women Art. Long before Intel hired The Blue Man Group - heck, long before Intel even made their first integrated circuit - there was a bizarre Czech painter named Yves Klein. Klein was known for painting expressionist paintings - where naked women all slathered in blue paint, used other naked women also covered in blue paint, as living paint brushes. Meanwhile - a live symphony would play either some music - or ooooooo, how arty - a single monotone. ohmmmmm. Sounds like quite an evening, huh? Check out this short clip which shows one such event. Yes - it was Yves Klein who wrote the monotone symphony in 1949. It concisted of one note. Genius - well maybe not. I went to a site (yvesklein.de) that featured an mp3 of 1 minute of the opus solo notus - and it was really annoying.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[RaymondArcangel]

It's weird that the narrator refers to him as "the late artist", yet continues to talk about him in the present tense for the rest of the piece. Very cool film though. He was something else, that Klein. I agree with Ms. Keiso below: this is the gud stuff yaaaaa.

[Carmen Keiso]

oosh oosh ooosh this is the gud stuff yaaaaaa

[MyHairIsAbnormal]

My mistake for thinking you were the one who posted the video.

I do see what you are saying, and for the most part, I actually agree.

Besides, what you quoted wasn't the bit I was annoyed by, it was "Genius - well maybe not. I went to a site (yvesklein.de) that featured an mp3 of 1 minute of the opus solo notus - and it was really annoying." That is a direct insult, not just being "casual."

I am not trying to start an argument here. I am just voicing my opinion. No need to get so angry.

[prejudicejew]

white rooms and labels make art more important than it should be

south park and monty python is better 'art' than most, if not all 'gallery art' today

and the richest ones are pranksters themselves (koons and hirst)

[prejudicejew]

I didn't post the video.

and you are being politcally correct. fuck respecting the artist if that means saying "naked ladies all painted in blue, Yves Klein, symphony musicians" is offensive to him

I'm an artist myself, and i'd love a casual description about my work like that - as I don't take myself too seriously, just as any good artist shouldn't.

[MyHairIsAbnormal]

I wasn't being even remotely politically correct (If you know what the term means). I was merely saying that your description is just very negative to the artist.

I have to wonder why you would post a video of something you seem to dislike so much.

[prejudicejew]

lol, what's so bad about the description? don't be so politically correct friend

[prejudicejew]

why? that's what it is. no need to give art a pretentious description in a youtube video

[Nicolas Tombelle]

Art doesnt need to be loved to be art

[tgssssssama]

Yves Klein? What a jerk. I don't think this is art or something.