I first encountered Yves Klein while stationed with the army in Japan. There was a Klein exhibition in Tokyo. The Gutai group was being born, and I was in the army, and I thought nothing about whether I would be an artist or not. In fact, I probably thought that I would never be an artist. But Klein had an effect on me, and I thought about making art beyond the interiors that it is usually presented in, about making art more in the outside world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Artnet obit Painter Sam Gilliam, Celebrated for His Boldly Colored Draped Canvases, Has Died at 88 The abstract painter died at his home in Washington, D.C. Sam Gilliam – November 30, 1933 \u2013 June 25, 2022 (Dogon V, 2005 – Intaglio Lithograph) Artforum obit (Sam Gilliam\u2019s work Yves Klein Blue at the Venice Biennale in … <\/p>\n
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