How 20th-century French artist Yves Klein helped me make sense of life in lockdown

By Lina Fadel, Assistant Professor, Business Research Methods, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

A rainy afternoon in March 2020, two weeks before the world came to a halt. I am in Paris celebrating my birthday with my partner. We are at the digital art gallery Atelier des Lumières, enveloped in the cool blue light of French artist Yves Klein’s monochrome blue paintings – a colour so overwhelming we struggle to reconcile it with the grey city outside when we finally emerge.

Klein liked to use one colour, his…

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