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In 1982 Danish rock band Kliché released an instrumental named "International Klein Blue". [13] International Klein Blue is the color used by Blue Man Group. [14] Roger Eno recorded a composition called Reflections on I.K.B. on his 1985 album Voices (EG Records, Virgin). [15] Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers released a single on 8 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
A blue cocktail was also served, a combination of gin, Cointreau, and methylene blue, which, much to Klein's surprise and delight, caused his patrons to urinate blue the next day. The event was an undeniable success, if only by numbers alone. Klein later recalls that by 9:30, "The whole place is packed, the corridor is full, the gallery as well."
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The book also contained a b/w reproduction of an International Klein Blue monochrome painting, and some sketches of Judo manoeuvres. Whilst some of the pieces relate to earlier writings and statements by Klein, most were written in a hectic four-day period immediately prior to publication, in a bar with friends. [9]