Untitled Anthropometry (ANT 84)

Mediums: dry pigment and synthetic resin on paper mounted on canvas.
Location: Tate Liverpool, the UK.

Sometimes there is a claim that anthropometric paintings were the result of the artist’s inspiration by the prints of a judoka on the wrestling mat. Looking for new ways to paint on canvas, Klein began to experiment with “live brushes” – nude models. Girls covered with blue paint had to leave prints on the basis. For Klein, the body was a vector of the transfer of blue manpower to the surface. The positive interpretation of the author, according to him, is in the spiritual influence of the experience of judo and Rosicrucianism. Klein found out that the female bodies served its purposes better since the traces left by their breasts, stomachs and hips have signs of fertility – a life-giving higher power. The author said that it would be impossible to imagine a male body leaving such attractive traces.