* April 28 – Yves Klein, French artist ( d. 1962 )

** Yves Klein, French painter ( b. 1928 )

* Yves Klein

Ultramarine blue is now commonly used by many types of contemporary artists, with Yves Klein being prominent.

* Yves Klein ( 1928 – 1962 ); a native of Nice, considered an important figure in post-war European art.

* UBU. artmob. ca, audio excerpt from The Monotone Symphony by Yves Klein

The fifty-four artists shown included Richard Lindner, Wayne Thiebaud, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Peter Phillips and Peter Blake ( his large The Love Wall from 1961 ) and Yves Klein, Arman, Daniel Spoerri, Christo, Mimmo Rotella.

In 1959 the French artist Yves Klein first performed Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle.

Serge Poliakoff, Nicolas de Staël, Georges Mathieu, Vieira da Silva, Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages among others are considered important figures in post-war European painting.

Yves Klein and Dino Buzzati engaged in the ritual transfer of immateriality, January 26, 1962

Conceptual work by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960, photo by Shunk Kender.

Yves Klein had been a precursor of performance art with the conceptual pieces of Zone de Sensibilité Picturale Immatérielle ( Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility ) 1959 – 62, and works like the photomontage, Saut dans le vide ( Leap into the Void ).

Works of conceptual artists in the early 1980s, like Sol LeWitt, who converted mural-style drawing into an act of performance by others, were influenced by Yves Klein and the Earth artists as well.

* 1957: Yves Klein, Aerostatic Sculpture ( Paris ).

* 1962: Yves Klein presents Immaterial Pictorial Sensitivity in various ceremonies on the banks of the Seine.

* Yves Klein

Yves Klein in France, and Carolee Schneemann, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, and Yoko Ono in New York City were pioneers of performance based works of art.

Antonin Artaud, Yves Klein, Sigmar Polke ( Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003 ).

She became a muse for many prominent designers, including Halston, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, Issey Miyake, Donna Karan, and, in particular, Yves Saint-Laurent.

International artists are few in the collection, but there are works by Robert Delaunay, Yves Tanguy, Man Ray, Jacques Lipchitz, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Max Ernst, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Donald Judd, Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Gabriel Orozco, Clyfford Still, cubist still lifes by Georges Braque and a large work by Francis Bacon.

* 1962 in art-Death of Morris Louis, Franz Kline, Yves Klein, Birth of John Currin, Gary Hume, International exhibition of The New Realists in New York

* 1928 in art-Birth of Andy Warhol, Arman, Yves Klein, Helen Frankenthaler, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt

He discovered Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalisme in the 1950s, but he became quickly interested in the French dada artist Marcel Duchamp, the music of John Cage and joined the Fluxus artistic movement in the 1960s.

* Yves Lambert ( France ) ( 1976 – 1988 )

In France, she worked with Jean Renoir in the successful film French Cancan ( 1954 ) with Jean Gabin and in Les Heros sont Fatigues ( 1955 ) with Yves Montand.

In 1771, Yves Joseph Kerguelen sailed from France with instructions to proceed south from Mauritius in search of " a very large continent.

* Yves Le Portz ( France ), September 1970 – July 1984

In 1936, along with André Jolivet, Daniel-Lesur and Yves Baudrier, Messiaen formed the group La jeune France (" Young France ").

On 10 December 2009, Mgr Yves Le Saux, Bishop of Le Mans, France, opened the diocesan process for the beatification of Zita.

The Marquis de La Fayette ; Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier ; ( 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834 ), often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France.

Famous cosmetic brands produced in France include Vichy, Yves Saint Laurent, Yves Rocher and many others.

Research by the historical demographer Yves Landry reveals that there were in total about 770 to 850 Filles du Roi established themselves in New France between 1663 and 1673.

Relic skull and reliquary of Saint Ivo of Kermartin ( also St. Yves or St. Ives ), ( 1253 – 1303 ) in Tréguier, Brittany, France

In the 1980s, Yves Chaland, Ted Benoît, Serge Clerc and Floc ' h relaunched the Ligne claire style in France.

* Yves, marquis d ' Alègre ( 1653 – 1733 ), Marshal of France in 1724

A documentary, " Largo ", directed by Yves Legrain-Crist with Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, was released in France on Autumn 2007.

During the 1980s and until the mid-1990s, he supported a French Press organization for Music-hall, Circus, Dance and Arts presided by a well known journalist in France, Jacqueline Cartier, with authors or notable personalities as Guy des Cars, Francis Fehr, Yves Mourousi and Jean-Pierre Thiollet.

Yves Klein in France was similarly challenging Modernist integrity with a series of works such as Yves: Peintures ( 1954 ) and Dimanche ( 1960 ) which turned on issues of identity and duplicity.

The first scuba diving school was created in France to train the owners of the Jacques Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan designed double hose scuba.

He visited his father in France in 1930, where he met many artists, including Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, André Masson, Joan Miró, Man Ray and Yves Tanguy.

After the death of his father-in-law in 1766, Louis XV of France annexed the duchy and turned the castle into a barracks, but much of the original construction has survived, and what remains is open to the public and the chateau's intricate parterre gardens, designed by Yves Hours ( a pupil of André Le Nôtre ) in 1711 and Louis de Nesle in 1724, are a public park today.

The five brothers of the Guillemot family founded Ubisoft as a computer game publisher in March 1986 in France ( Brittany ) Yves Guillemot soon made deals with Electronic Arts, Sierra On-Line, and MicroProse to distribute their games in France.