French artist Yves Klein created a series of works he called Anthropometry using what as paint brushes?
Anthropometry shoe size directly (e.g. the Brannock Device) or to determine the detailed dimensions of the foot for custom manufacture (e.g. ALINEr). In art Yves Klein termed his performance paintings anthropometries, where he covered nude women with paint and used their bodies as paintbrushes. Anthropometry Anthropometry (from Greek "anthropos", "human", and "metron", "measure") refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. Anthropometry involves the systematic measurement of
Yves Klein had used to paint IKB canvases, mounted on steel rods and set in rocks that he'd found in his parents' garden. Despite the IKB paintings being uniformly coloured, Klein experimented with various methods of applying the paint; firstly different rollers and then later sponges, created a series of varied surfaces. This experimentalism would lead to a number of works Klein made using naked female models covered in blue paint and dragged across or laid upon canvases to make the image, using the models as "living brushes". This type of work he called "Anthropometry". Other paintings in this method of production