All things firey
Cai Guo-Qiang uses gunpowder and on a larger scale explosives to work with drawings, installation and performance art.
Light Passage – Spring 2007 – Cai Guo-Quiang
Gunpowder on Paper, mounted on wood panels. 230x462cm
http://www.yveskleinarchives.org/works/works7_us.html
Yves Klein called the flame ‘a living brush’, I can’t think of a more appropriate image to start off this blog of all things firey and art related.
Yves Klein painting with fire, ca. 1960 Physical Details: photographic print: 1 item: b&w; 20 x 31 cm. Creator: George Véron, photographer Forms part of: Rudi Blesh papers 1909-1983 Citation: Yves Klein painting with fire, ca. 1960 / George Véron, photographer. Rudi Blesh papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Fire Painting F25 – 1961