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True Blue
Real Living Australia
|October 2018
Described by its maker as being beyond dimension, International Klein Blue is the colour that painted the art world ultramarine
THE WORLD HAS LONG BEEN BEGUILED BY the colour blue, or more specifically, ultramarine. A bright, brilliant hue, ultramarine is the sort of blue all others wish they had been. The pigment was once considered more precious than gold and legend has it Michelangelo left an artwork unfinished because he couldn’t afford to buy enough. Centuries later, a young French artist named Yves Klein patented his own version of ultramarine and called it International Klein Blue (IKB). The thing is, IKB
This story is from the October 2018 edition of Real Living Australia.
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