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Marcel Coard is one of the great decorators and designers of the 1930s.
Yves Klein was a French artist, renowned for his innovative use of pure color and his approach to the conceptual aspects of monochrome painting. Klein, born in 1928 in Nice, France, left an indelible mark on the art world despite his brief career, which ended with his untimely death in 1962.
Klein is best known for his invention of International Klein Blue (IKB), a deep blue hue which he registered as a trademark color and used extensively in his works. This vibrant blue, which he developed in collaboration with a chemist, represented more than just a color; it was a means of evoking the immateriality and boundlessness of space. His monochrome blue canvases, large-scale public performances, and pioneering works in performance art established him as a leading figure in the Nouveau Réalisme movement in post-war Europe.
Aside from his famous blue monochromes, Klein’s Anthropometries series, where he used nude women as 'living brushes' to transfer blue paint onto canvases, is another testament to his innovative artistic methods. These performances, often accompanied by a small orchestra playing his "Monotone Symphony" — a single, continuous note played for twenty minutes followed by twenty minutes of silence — challenged traditional perceptions of the artist's role and the creation process.
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Victor Amalric Walter was a French glass maker mainly known for his pâte de verre (a glass casting method that translates as glass paste) pieces.
Caspar Johann Nepomuk Scheuren is a German painter and illustrator.
After receiving an elementary art education from his painter father Egidius Scheuren, he studied landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he later became a professor.
Caspar Scheuren gradually developed an allegorical style of landscape painting, including motifs from stories and legends of the Rhine. He produced more than 300 oil paintings, 600 watercolors and 400 engravings.
