Talk:International Klein Blue

message: IKB encompasses both a method and a hue. Since Selfridges is painted not in a pigment suspended in a clear resin, but, rather, in a conventional opaque surface coating, it cannot be said to be IKB. The referencing may need to be tidied up, but the linked article details the surface coating used.
Architects' Journal building study 
88.104.114.87 (talk) 10:13, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The linked article reads like an advertisement and spam...Modernist (talk) 11:32, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am going to remove the article as a link, and reinclude it as reference to the Selfridges section. As an external link it reads as spam...Modernist (talk) 12:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

text: I think it works better now...:)...Modernist (talk) 12:45, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bullring

message: The article currently claims that the color is "outside the gamut of computer displays."  That's quite an extraordinary claim, and has been tagged [citation needed for a while], so I removed it.  --75.205.154.113 (talk) 06:42, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, IKB is well outside typical computer display gamut. Why does that claim seem extraordinary? Computer displays have quite limited gamut compared to the natural world. Unfortunately I can’t find any good colorimetric measurements of Klein’s paintings online. –jacobolus (t) 23:56, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, perhaps it only seems extraordinary because I have a very poor understanding of computer monitor technology!  :)  I found a possible citation here, but to be honest they might have been relying on wikipedia for that info--certainly the sentence structure was identical to that on this page.  A secondary problem is this possibility: that it once was outside the gamut, but as monitor technology has improved and their gamuts expanded, it might be possible on some higher-end displays.  I found some diagrams of the gamuts of certain monitors, but have no idea how to find out where IKB is located on the graph.  --75.205.154.113 (talk) 02:42, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  In re: “might be possible on some higher-end displays”, I don’t believe it is. Have you ever seen any of Klein’s work? The blue is really something else. –jacobolus (t) 02:56, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Computer displays can only attempt to synthesise a colour's RGB equivalent. This may be in the gamut of a display yet when seen the effect is not the same a the real thing. The extent to which RGB can reproduce real colours which are spectra of many wavelengths is often questioned. There are other things such as saturation, lighting and texture which cannot be reproduced. Also the sheer size of the pieces has effects that can't be reproduced on a small monitor. It is also noted that the background is a gold colour for the statue in the illustration. This is also very bright and saturated. So standing in front of it you will get the Blue/Yellow complementary colour effect. QuentinUK (talk) 20:37, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monitors 

message: Many people refer to the patent when there was no such thing, this is just the easiest  translation without also explaining what a Soleau envelope is, a system peculiar to France, so many people just say patent. "On May 19, 1960, Yves Klein registered his paint formulation under the name International Klein Blue (IKB) at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle. It received the Soleau envelope number 63471."
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ia9V2mls3K4C&lpg=PA149&ots=wDiyjHAruZ&dq&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q&f=false
This also includes a photo of said Soleau envelope. Although I cannot read all the details of YK's handwriting it is clear that this is a paint formula. 
The patent: It is called "Procédé de décoration ou d'intégration architecturale et produits obtenus par application dudit procédé"
Found the translation here, not so hard to find when you press the right button:
http://translationportal.epo.org/emtp/translate/?ACTION=description-retrieval&COUNTRY=FR&ENGINE=google&FORMAT=docdb&KIND=A&LOCALE=en_EP&NUMBER=1258418&OPS=ops.epo.org&SRCLANG=fr&TRGLANG=en
This is a totally different document. So there are two documents after all. QuentinUK (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patent 

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