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Jan 2, 2020 · The man was avant-garde artist Yves Klein, and it was his own satirical publication featuring his now-famous image Leap into the Void (1960). It was easy, at the time, to take the photograph at face value—that Klein was abandoning himself to gravity.
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As in his carefully choreographed paintings in which he used nude female models dipped in blue paint as paintbrushes, Klein's photomontage paradoxically creates the impression of freedom and abandon through a highly contrived process.
Almost everybody knows the iconic image of French artist Yves Klein suspended in mid-air, during his famous “Le Saut dans le Vide” (the Leap into the Void). Less people know that this photomontage was made in October 1960, when Klein jumped from the rooftop of his art dealer’s house at Rue Gentil-Bernard in Fontenay-aux-Roses, Paris.
Klein is also well known for a composite photograph, Saut dans le vide (Leap into the Void), originally published in his 1960 artist's book Dimanche, which apparently shows him jumping off a wall, arms outstretched, towards the pavement.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Leap into the Void’ was created in 1960 by Yves Klein in Nouveau Réalisme style. Find more prominent pieces of photo at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Come with me into the void! —Yves Klein 1. THE MOST FAMOUS IMAGE OF Yves Klein—the startling photograph of the artist, dressed in business suit and necktie, leaping into flight from a second-floor ledge on a quiet Paris street—is usually seen out of context. Yet with Klein, context is everything.
Sep 8, 2015 · Leap Into the Void is one of Klein's most famous artworks – as iconic as the monochrome paintings that established his reputation – viscerally evoking a realm beyond everyday...
