His series of Monochromes featured canvasses painted entirely one color, many of which were executed in a shade based on synthetic ultramarine.
This artist traded one of his artworks for a bag of gold dust and a receipt, then threw the gold dust into the Seine and burnt the receipt. This artist painted canvases and fastened them to his Citroën car to subject them to rain, wind, and dirt to create artworks for his Cosmogonies series. This artist's fascination with Rosicrucianism led to his obsession with emptiness, as demonstrated in a photograph in which he is seen jumping out of a second-story window into nothingness. In 1958, he exhibited an empty display case in the Iris Clert Gallery in an exhibition called The Void. This artist soaked nude models in paint and had them roll on a canvas to create paintings in his Anthropometries series. His series of Monochromes featured canvasses painted entirely one color, many of which were executed in a shade based on synthetic ultramarine. For 10 points, name this artist who named an "international blue" pigment after himself.
This artist traded one of his artworks for a bag of gold dust and a receipt, then threw the gold dust into the Seine and burnt the receipt.
Yves Klein