Homage to Yves Kline One of my favorite artists was the nouveau realist Yves Kline. He did "space" performances and also did staged painting. He would dress up in a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, send out invitations, and have a small orchestra accompany him. He would first paint a naked person (woman) with paint (blue), and then, while the orchestra played, he would roll the person onto the canvas, leaving a painted impression of the body. For one of the Orlando Museum’s "Art after Dark" programs I decided to do an Homage to Yve Kline. To start I stood on a chair in the rotunda and called out 3 times "Homage to Yves Kline". Then I fell off the chair chest first onto the tiled floor, occupying space. (I knocked the breath out of myself, and dislocated three of the floor tiles). As I got up, I began painting my accompanist with blue paint. For the museum, she wore a bathing suite. After she was covered in blue paint, I rolled her on the canvas, which was laying on the floor, and as I finished I quickly painted a series of corvettes over the blue canvas. I have painted live many times, and have done numerous sculpture performances, but this homage remains my favorite. |
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