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Anthropometries of the Blue Age
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  • Judith Leyster: Self-Portrait
    Western painting
    / Art and consumerism: French and Italian art in the 1950s

    …famous performances, however, were the Anthropometries of the Blue Age, performed in Paris in 1960, in which Klein, wearing a tuxedo, instructed several naked female models to act as his “living paintbrushes,” imprinting their paint-smeared bodies onto enormous sheets of paper placed on the floor.

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    …famous performances, however, were the Anthropometries of the Blue Age, performed in Paris in 1960, in which Klein, wearing a tuxedo, instructed several naked female models to act as his “living paintbrushes,” imprinting their paint-smeared bodies onto enormous sheets of paper placed on the floor.

    Read More