Almost at the same time that 8 drawing boards were exhibited in Milan Art Exhibition 1960, Yves Klein registered a patent for this blue, and the name "IKB" was officially born.
In fact, Eve Klein had created quite a number of monochrome paintings, such as orange, pink and green, before the exhibition of Klein's blue sketchpad ... but their influence was not as great as that of blue.
This kind of blue is not pleasing to the eye for many people at first sight, and even a bit glaring, because yves klein's later performance art was endowed with more significance.
For example, in the "aerostatics Sculpture" exhibition of 1957, he released 100 1 blue balloons and dyed the sky red with Klein blue; 1958, he held another exhibition called "le vide", which decorated the entrance magnificently, but there was only free blue gin and an empty exhibition hall inside the exhibition hall, but it was not absolutely empty-all the audience who had drunk wine saw "Klein Blue" on the toilet.
Among Klein Blue's series of artistic creations, perhaps the most famous is his series Anthropology, which puts Klein Blue on female models and lets them paint on canvas with their bodies.
In fact, the created Klein Blue has a name that doesn't sound old-fashioned, but it is very awkward-International Qilian Blue.
What would it be like if this color was called international Qilian blue instead of Klein blue at first?
For French people, Klein is just an ordinary surname, but for China people, it is a kind of "foreign land feeling". If it was Smith, Smith Blue wouldn't be here at all.
If you don't know the name, most people in China will blurt out: sapphire! Everyone doesn't know what Klein Blue is, and few people will investigate it, but Klein Blue sounds deep, clean and pure, like the color of the sky and the color of the sea.