“Blue has no dimensions; it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not… All colours arouse specific associative ideas… while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract. “… Yves Klein
International Klein Blue is a deep blue hue first mixed by the French contemporary artist Yves Klein. The visual impact comes from its heavy reliance on ultramarine, as well as Klein’s often thick and textured application of paint to canvas. As a big fan of blues, both Ultramarine and Cerulean, I can relate to Klein’s comment: “I had left the visible, physical blue at the door, outside, in the street. The real blue was inside, the blue of the profundity of space, the blue of my kingdom, of our kingdom!”
By-the-by, this summer there’s an exhibition of Yves Klein’s work in the UK at Blenheim, the ancestral home of the Churchills: Blue Palace – Blenheim to celebrate colour visionary Yves Klein
On painting a sky, one Winston Churchill, an avid painter, commented: “I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.”
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“They are the left-overs from my creative process, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only title deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.” Yves Klein