Into the Blue -- Yves Klein

I fell in love with the work of Yves Klein not because of the varying subject matter or medium, but because of the drenched, intoxicating color that he virtually invented, inspired by the lapis lazuli pigment used to paint the Virgin Mary's robes during the Renaissance, named International Klein Blue (IKB). It is impossible not to get lost in this space, framed and contextualized by color alone, and then to work your way back out of it, perhaps changed, perhaps not, but either way, affected by it.

Yves Klein, IKB 191, 1962