Body language and gesturality in the art of painting from Yves Klein to today

The traumatic effect of psychological erosions following the World War II, had revealed the personal extensions of unconscious references that shaped the art of the neo avant-garde after 1945. For the artists of the period who were captivated by the mystical attractiveness of the subconscious, involvement of the non-Western rituals, Far Eastern belief systems and art, existentialism and psychoanalysis as sources of inspiration, constituted the basic characteristics that had shaped the works of the period. From Jackson Pollock to Yves Klein, we are witnessing a transformation in which the body itself is incorporated as the main material of creative action, while tracing the visuality of gestuality in the pictorial realm at the stage of art evolving into contemporary art starting with Yves Klein with this conceptual background. The body, which has been at the center of sociality since the late 1970s, has also influenced art. The scope of art will be extended not only through the instrumental structure of the body, but also through its characteristics as being an intersection point of different contexts. The stages of the informal interrogations on the canvas following this point will include the richness of transferring anticipated capacity of body onto pictorial plane through its testing to the extent it overcomes the obstacles of time, space and materials, with the effect of the trait of the artist and environmental factors, forming the basis for the actions and by means of a series of some performative actions by creating a personal gestural integrity.