My favorite color in art is blue, and therefore I use it more often. The utilization of the blue color in art history is long and interesting. Blue was, in various time-frames and societies, considered a color held for heavenly and religious portrayals, starting from the Egyptian pharaohs. Blue is a color that is so natural to adore. It gives life, calms, and speaks with us just by existing.
Blue goes past characteristics, and consolidating this color in our day-to-day existences will make us more joyful, more tranquil, and sharper of our activities. Blue is the color of the ocean and the sky, additionally representing godliness and dreams. It has a soothing, quieting impact that conveys a feeling of safety and calmness. It implies the tremendous feeling of harmony that we feel when around water and is characterized as our escape from the hyper-busy, over-stimulated state.
While investigating the psychology of color can be difficult, it is essential to know that responses to color can likewise be different. Previous experiences can influence how individuals feel about and react to various colors. While certain individuals view blue as a pitiful color, others might interpret it as quiet or motivating.
My Motivation Behind Blue Color
I got intrigued by this color first when I visited Museu Coleção Berardo in Lisbon, Portugal. I was lucky enough to experience the beauty of Yves Klein La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue) (1962) there. Yves Klein was a French artist, a member of Nouveau réalisme, and one of the creators of the International Klein Blue (IKB) color. Renowned for his blue works of art, Yves Klein is one of the most amazing known artists of the twentieth century. This shade of blue is used in most of his well-known blue artworks.
The enduring impact that the artwork made on me is an outcome of the method used by Yves Klein in its making. One of the last century's most compelling artists, Yves Klein (1928-1962), dominated the European art scene in a productive career from 1954 to 1962. Klein was a designer who embraced working in paint, paper, sculptures, music, theater, film, design, and mixing colors. Klein tried to bring spirituality through pure color, basically his ultramarine blue invention. Klein had an incredible effect on present-day art history.
History of IKB
In the late spring of 1947, the French artist needed to catch the sky's breadth through painting. Around the same time, he started to paint his canvases in shades of blue, at first using ultramarine. He would make almost 200 of these blue canvases. By 1960, he had made his own blue shade, known as International Klein Blue (IKB). Yves Klein is well known for his artworks into pure colors - blue, in particular. Just by his signature color, International Klein Blue, he made famous monochromes that gave pure and environmental feelings to art. International Klein Blue (IKB) is a dark blue shade first blended by the French artist Yves Klein. The visual effects of IKB come from its resemblance to ultramarine. IKB has a matte binder that suspends the color and permits it to keep its unique characteristics as expected.
In any case, International Klein Blue (IKB) stands apart for its quality and the impact it produces. It is not simply the nature of the color that pulled in worldwide consideration, which impacts its popularity, yet, in addition, the particular conditions of its application that fascinate me.
Impacts on My Art
From the time I saw Yves Klein's masterpiece, La Vénus d'Alexandrie (Vénus Bleue) in Lisbon, I got fascinated with it. I started searching for vivid and intensive blue colors like the one used by him in his pieces. Since rich, brilliant monochrome offers a unique quality that drains us out of reality towards another aspect. Therefore, I still use it in my works on paper but want to find the perfect one for big canvases too. For me, it is a powerful color that emphasizes itself, and you don’t need to use anything else.
The remarkable artist Yves Klein set the guidelines for all the new generation artists for an entire age. Arising during a period of political disturbance in France, Klein was an innovator of applied art, which I admire and work to bring in my career. For me, the color blue has intrinsic to my aesthetic philosophy. I think that blue is the hidden beauty that is becoming visible to the world. Blue has no dimensions, and it is beyond the extents of the experience that other colors produce.