Art Papers

The inexpressible, the intangible, the elusive, Yves Klein sought, during his dazzling existence, to materialize them in the language of pigments.
Klein blue or International Klein Blue, emblematic of the work
Blue, a revelation: this saturated overseas blue, IKB, associated with a fixing agent that allows it not to lose its intensity, constitutes the paradigm of a flamboyant work carried by the idea of ​​a universal impregnation thanks to the colour. A blue "beyond the blue" which radiates vibrations of the spirit. It is for Yves Klein the most abstract color: “Blue has no dimension, it is outside dimensions. All the colors bring associations of concrete ideas while the blue recalls at most the sea and the sky, what is most abstract in the tangible and visible nature ”. The IKB blue was developed with a chemist in the pharmaceutical industry who helped the artist find an adjuvant, a synthetic resin that will be named Rhodopas, and whose property is to retract when drying to reveal and reveal the pure pigment.