Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3gk6xrgNy1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klein-ikb-79-t01513"><em>IKB 79</em> by Yves Klein</a> from the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/">Tate Collection</a>. From their <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klein-ikb-79-t01513/text-summary">text summary</a>:</p> <blockquote>IKB 79 was one of nearly two hundred blue monochrome paintings Yves Klein made during his short life.</blockquote> <blockquote>Klein did not give titles to these works but after his death in 1962, his widow Rotraut Klein-Moquay numbered all the known blue monochromes IKB 1 to IKB 194, a sequence which did not reflect their chronological order.</blockquote> <blockquote>The letters IKB stand for International Klein Blue, a distinctive ultramarine which Klein registered as a trademark colour in 1957. He considered that this colour had a quality close to pure space and he associated it with immaterial values beyond what can be seen or touched.</blockquote>http://notes.husk.org/post/22331538774http://notes.husk.org/post/22331538774Thu, 03 May 2012 20:07:16 +0100imageyves kleininternational klein bluebluepaintingarttatemodern art