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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]
He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He is known for the development and use of International Klein Blue.
In fact, 20th-century French artist Yves Klein loved the shade so much that he patented a version called International Klein Blue.
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.
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]
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.
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.