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"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 Recording Company. Dutch artist Joost Klein designed a suit in International Klein Blue to wear in the videoclip and performance for Europapa, the song ...
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]
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 song was inspired by Klein, particularly the titular International Klein Blue. 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 ...
In fact, 20th-century French artist Yves Klein loved the shade so much that he patented a version called International Klein Blue. Today, contemporary artists like Carlos Mercado and Alicia ...
Hiroshima, also known as ANT 79, is a painting by the French painter Yves Klein, created in 1961.Through the use of both anthropometry and monochromy, the work pays tribute to the victims of Hiroshima, affected by the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945, by the United States.
Klein stated that he conceived the idea for the work in 1947 (as written on the score) or 1949 (in interviews and texts). [4] In the first public performance in 1960, three naked models on stage were painted with International Klein Blue body paint during the performance, and left imprints of their bodies on canvas. [2] [4]
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.