In order to combat this "exasperation of the self", he quickly adopted rollers to produce his monochromes. These painting tools can create different textures, depending on their material and design. More importantly for Klein, they imposed the "distance" of anonymity between the canvas and the artist, who was pleased with this: "My personal psychology does not permeate the painting when I paint with a roller. Only the value of the colour itself shines through in pure, clean quality.
Denys Riout, excerpt from "Un usage pédagogique du prix", colloquium La valeur de l'artdes organised by the Beaux-Arts de Paris, 2017