Over the weekend, toured the Yves Klein exhibition at the Hirshhorn. Usually not swayed by monochromatists but Klein is an exception: an artist so dissatisfied with commercially available pigments that he synthesized his own, International Klein Blue, to capture the blueness of his imagination. To my eye, IKB seems just a shade more vibrant than the deepest blue the sky could ever manage. Just as everything about Klein, to me, seems just a shade more alive than [...]
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