The Bodies in Anthropometrics of Yves Klein

This work; provides a critical approach to the question of the place of anthropometry in the art literature and how it is practiced. The interlocutor of this criticism is Yves Klein, who is known as one of the important representatives of the New Realism movement, with his ultraviolet blue color pigment, which was patented as the international Klein Blue. Starting in the mid-1950s, Klein exhibited the first examples of performance art by making retinal blue monochrome paintings, and by making use of the female body to make it a body criterion (anthropometry), in a sense it is unintentionally a trap for a sexist point of view material. Therefore, in this study; Yves Klein is presenting a critique of the objectification of the female body in the works put forward in accordance with the concept of anthropometry