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Anton Pearson. Publication Design. (2012). [KK]
Parent sheet from a tonal book designed entirely with a photocopier for publication design at MCAD.
Anton Pearson. Publication Design. (2012). [KK]
Parent sheet from a tonal book designed entirely with a photocopier for publication design at MCAD.
Yves Klein, International Klein Blue 79, 1959
From the Tate Collection:
In 1947, Klein began making monochrome paintings, which he associated with freedom from ideas of representation or personal expression. A decade later, he developed his trademark, patented colour, International Klein Blue (IKB). This colour, he believed, had a quality close to pure space, and he associated it with immaterial values beyond what can be seen or touched. He described it as ‘a Blue in itself, disengaged from all functional justification’. Klein made around 200 monochrome paintings using IKB. He did not give titles to these works but, after his death, his widow assigned a number to each one
I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neckmoving away from mebeyond anger or failureyour face in the evening schools of longingthrough mornings of wish and ripenwe were always saying goodbyein the blood in the bone over coffeebefore dashing for elevators goingin opposite directionswithout goodbyes.Do not remember me as a bridge nor a roofas the maker of legendsnor as a trapdoor to that worldwhere black and white clericalshang on the edge of beauty in five oclock elevatorstwitching their shoulders to avoid other fleshand nowthere is someone to speak for themmoving away from me into tomorrowsmorning of wish and ripenyour goodbye is a promise of lightningin the last angels handunwelcome and warningthe sands have run out against uswe were rewarded by journeysaway from each otherinto desireinto mornings alonewhere excuse and endurance mingleconceiving decision.Do not remember meas disasternor as the keeper of secretsI am a fellow rider in the cattle carswatchingyou move slowly out of my bedsaying we cannot waste timeonly ourselves.
Yard with Lunatics (1794), Oil on tin-plated iron | artwork by Francisco Goya
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