Blue Painted in Blue. Fables of Artists without Works

Abstract

In the summer of 1947, Yves Klein, Claude Pascal, Armand Fernandez, sit on the beach in Nice: looking at the sea and the blue sky, doing nothing, and making statements on the art to come, the Art and the Big Style of the Future. From that moment on, from those words, their lives would change radically and become completely new: a Vita Nova, the life as an artist without artworks, just words,  stories, gestures. It was a moment that saw the birth of the Nouveau Realisme movement and the artistic will to overcome the problem of art and the philosophy of art, according to Modernism and the Action Painting. In that episode and in the après-coup narrative, told by three young artists, we can grasp the emergence of a true contemporary artistic myth