Joel-Peter Witkin      Woman on a Table, New Mexico     1987

Constantin Brancusi     Femme se regardant un miroir     1909

“They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.”  Constantin Brancusi

Nobuyoshi Araki     Untitled     Undated

Uncredited Photographer     Yves Klein: Le Rêve du Feu      c.1961

Uncredited Photographer     Yves Klein: Anthropométries de l’époque bleue, Galerie internationale d’art contemporain, Paris      1960

I LOVE (!) the string players in the background, with their slightly bored, slightly mystified expressions.

Uncredited Photographer     Yves Klein’s First Experiment With Living Brushes, Robert Godet’s Apartment, rue le Regrattier, Paris,      1958

Uncredited Photographer     Yves and Claude Pascal, Nice, France     1951

Here’s Klein wearing a shirt with exaggerated prints of his hands and feet on it.  Pretty cool, huh?

Uncredited Photographer     Yves Klein in his “Void Room” Installation, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany     1961

“I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figurative or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.”  Yves Klein, quoted in Gilbert Perlein and Bruno Cora, ”Yves Klein: Long live the Immaterial”  2001

Yves Klein     Untitled Anthropometry     1960