# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yves-klein
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:12.539Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Yves Klein was born in France on 28 April 1928 and spent his short career dismantling the boundaries of art itself. He developed International Klein Blue, a color so vivid he made it his alone, and became a leading member of Nouveau réalisme when art critic Pierre Restany founded the movement in 1960. Klein pioneered performance art, turning the act of creation into spectacle, and his work prefigured both minimalism and pop art in the postwar European scene. He died on 6 June 1962, thirty-four years old, having compressed a revolution into less than a decade.