Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI EDEBIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, ss.185-198, 2024 (ESCI)
Art, in its historical and cultural process, had a traditional understanding with specific rules, forms, and norms. However, the modernist and avant-garde movements that emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries broke away from this traditional understanding of art. This break led artists towards innovative and experimental approaches regarding the art object and material. Marcel Duchamp's concept of the "Readymade," which detached the idea of a specially crafted object for art, pioneered these explorations. In traditional art, the body, often a representation of mythological and aesthetic beauty, transformed into an objective form of expression in contemporary art. In contemporary art, the body can be considered a very effective tool for conveying sensory and physical experiences. Yves Klein, who had a pioneering and innovative approach to art, conducted a series of works called Anthropometry, which were pure measurements of human proportions as an objective form of expression. The Anthropometry works, dating to the late 1950s and early 1960s, challenged the boundaries of art and showed resistance to traditional art practices. In the Anthropometry series, Klein created artworks by painting naked female bodies with the color "International Klein Blue," using the body solely as an art object. Klein viewed the traces left by bodies and body movements as a tool of his art, establishing a universal and mystical body-art relationship. The use of the body as an art object has also led to criticisms of the commodification of the female body. This study will allow us to think about how the bodies in Klein's Anthropometries transcend the boundaries of art and transform into an aesthetic expression, and the representation of the body-art relationship.