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Yves Klein: This is International Klein Blue (IKB), an ultra-marine pigment Klein patented in his own name to make monograms with. The sound you’re hearing is the sound of an orchestra playing, a whole orchestra, one note. Matthew Collings, What is Modern Art? IV: Nothing Matters, Channel 4 1999
Klein’s theatracality is very much in tune with nowadays. ibid.
He really was a judo expert. He really was a member of the secret society of Rosicrucians. ibid.
Klein was a performer, an alchemist, an inspired fantasist. His void was a theatrical void and a magic void. ibid.
And now the blue void which Yves Klein finally disappeared into June 6th 1962, aged 34, after his 3rd heart attack. ibid.
The arrival of Lapis Lazuli from the East made blue the colour of our dreams. Dr James Fox, A History of Art in Three Colours: Gold I, BBC 2012
The unique thing about blue is that it is all around us and yet somehow it feels for ever out of reach. Dr James Fox, A History of Art in Three Colours: Blue II
A precious stone ... Lapis Lazuli ... It would change art in dramatic ways. ibid.
The Greeks didn’t even have a word for it. ibid.
Blue began to seep into Western art. ibid.
Titian was a colour addict. ibid.
Yves’ [Klein’s] blue revolution ... Yves’ artwork became known as the Leap Into the Void. ibid.
Earthrise: It caught the imagination of everyone. It was the first time we had seen the Earth from another world. And it dawned on us that ours was more than anything a blue planet. ibid.
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol 1898
I don’t like anything blue, me. The Royle Family s1e6: Wedding Day, Nana, BBC 1998
Colour can speed up time. But it’s not the colour red that does it ... Blue seems to able to speed up time. Horizon: Do You See What I See? BBC 2011