Leap into the Void


I love this iconic photograph of the French artist and Zen practitioner, Yves Klein. "Le Saut dans le Vide", is from an art performance by Klein in October 1960, at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses. In the artist's gesture to 'sign the sky', here he shows viewers to take chances with artistic space. The daredevil Klein is well known for creating art that shows the absence of his subjects, such as his Blue women art below:

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