Yves Klein, Anthropometry ANT 85, 1960, oil on paper, 155.5 x 352.5 cm, Private Collection. Source
Yves Klein, Large Blue Anthropometry (ANT 105), c.1960, pigment and resin on paper, 280 x 428 cm, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Source
Women performing an Anthropometry, 1960. Source
Klein often experimented in the art of paint application, with his Anthropometries involving a particularly daring method: the bodies of naked female models, coated in the famous IKB (International Klein Blue) shade of blue paint, are printed or dragged across a horizontal paper surface. The application also doubled as a form of performance art that would be executed in front of a live audience. The term Anthropometry comes from the concept of the ‘living paintbrush’; other forms of this type of painting included Klein’s use of rain- and fire-play.