The life of William Klein

Klein was born in New York in 1928. His father once owned a clothing store. In the second year of his birth, it went bankrupt due to the economic downturn. Since then, Klein's father Just make a living by selling insurance to rich relatives. Klein has lived a life of extreme poverty in the face of wealthy relatives since he was a child. He was full of feelings of abandonment as a child, and because of this, he developed a self-exiled character. At the age of fourteen, the extremely smart Klein graduated from high school with excellent grades three years early and entered the City University of New York. Just a year before graduation, he decided to give up his degree and join the Army. This was a sign of his self-exiled character. It was revealed for the first time that he was very happy with his choice: "It was a good life. For the first time in my life, I could stay away from my family and didn't have to date girls. I enjoyed this life." In 1948, he had just turned twenty. , left the United States, exiled himself in Paris, and lived a wandering life as an artist. Klein first studied painting at Sorbone in Paris, completed his degree, and married a French woman of the same year. The most influential thing about his future career at that time was that he studied painting with Lei Jie for a period of time. He said: "From Lei Jie, I learned a taste for mechanical melody and the concept that anything is possible." The influence Klein gained from Lei Jie was not the style of painting. His paintings have no With no trace of Lei's social consciousness and the mechanical beauty of the industrial age, he painted hard-edged abstractions from the beginning. He has been quite popular since his debut. If he continues to develop in painting, he may now be an important role that cannot be taken lightly. It was by chance that Klein got into photography. In 1952, his oil paintings were exhibited in Milan. At that time, Klein was fascinated by changes in lines and shapes, and used ominous geometric patterns to create large murals. , the famous Italian architect Margiaroffi happened to see his exhibition and suggested that he arrange these large paintings into movable partitions to form walkways or rooms, creating more possible combinations. After Klein's "architectural paintings" were laid out, he took a few photos as a souvenir, and thus got into photography without knowing it. In fact, this is also caused by his self-exiled character, because he feels that he has taken a step forward in the expression of painting and will not continue to do it. He would rather throw himself into the new wave and follow the current.