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Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released a single on 8 December 2017 called "International Blue", which is written about Yves Klein and IKB. [16] "Klein International Blue" is the opening track on the Sandy Dirt EP, a collaboration between Al Larsen of Some Velvet Sidewalk, and Scottish group The Pastels, released in 1995 by the Domino ...
IKB 79 is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, made in 1959. It is one of his monochrome series of around 200. It uses a shade of blue that he developed, International Klein Blue, based on the pigment ultramarine. The painting has the dimensions of 139.7 by 119.7 cm. It is held at the Tate Modern, in London. [1] [2]
Hiroshima is one of Klein's famous anthropometries, where he wanted to pay tribute to the victims of this tragic event. His anthropometries feature naked women covered in his own International Klein Blue and whose bodily imprints affixed to a canvas would create the final works.
Klein in his final years had assembled a group of three colours who were more significant to him, blue, more exactly his own International Klein Blue, gold and pink. This trilogy could be interpreted as having a religious symbology, similar to the Christian concept of the Trinity. He created several paintings using each one of these three colours.
The Manics' bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire told the Quietus ""There was a joy to 'International Blue' that we weren't sure we could convey any more, the feeling of being in love with something like Yves Klein, to pass on the joy of that colour and that vividness – we weren't sure if we still had it in us. It sounds quite young." [30] In 2017 ...
Artists throughout history—from Vermeer and Klimt to Miro and Mondrian—have used the color extensively. In fact, 20th-century French artist Yves Klein loved the shade so much that he patented ...
Yves Peintures (Eng: Yves Paintings) is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein, originally published in Madrid, on 18 November 1954. [1] [2] This publication was Klein's first public gesture as an artist, featuring pages of 'commercially printed papers' [3] that were seemingly reproductions of paintings that, in fact, didn't exist.
International Klein Blue, a deep blue hue; IκB (I-kappa-B), a protein complex; Other uses. IKB Deutsche Industriebank, a German bank; Ikebukuro Station (JR East station code), Japan; Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), British engineer; Wilkes County Airport (IATA code), North Carolina, US