<story><title>Why we&apos;re blind to the color blue</title><url>https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selestify</author><text>As someone who hasn&amp;#x27;t seen it in the flesh yet, and doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; modern art unless someone explicitly spells it out for me, could you elaborate more on why it&amp;#x27;s so spectacular?&lt;p&gt;For example, Blue Monochrome [1] seems to my uneducated eye to be just a layer of pure blue that every wall painter recreates every time they paint a wall blue. Why is the Blue Monochrome piece more than just a wall painted blue?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moma.org&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;works&amp;#x2F;80103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moma.org&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;works&amp;#x2F;80103&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>drcongo</author><text>One of my favourite series in art is Yves Klein&amp;#x27;s blue work. For anyone unfamiliar, he found a blue that he considered the bluest possible blue [1], and went on a journey painting everything in that blue. I loved that he did this, and then eventually managed to get to an exhibition of his work at the Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away by it - it really needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it. There&amp;#x27;s something about his blue, that when painted on to a sculpture, almost makes the 3D disappear and the sculpture looks 2 dimensional. Extremely beautiful.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, some (many?) cultures around the world have no word for blue, blue is just other shades of green.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;International_Klein_Blue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;International_Klein_Blue&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pjc50</author><text>Klein blue is outside the color gamut that can be represented on normal monitors, so it&amp;#x27;s physically impossible to get the full impact of it through a picture. It just looks .. deeper.&lt;p&gt;There are a few flowers that have this property; fuscias, and others with strong UV fluorescence.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why we&apos;re blind to the color blue</title><url>https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>selestify</author><text>As someone who hasn&amp;#x27;t seen it in the flesh yet, and doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; modern art unless someone explicitly spells it out for me, could you elaborate more on why it&amp;#x27;s so spectacular?&lt;p&gt;For example, Blue Monochrome [1] seems to my uneducated eye to be just a layer of pure blue that every wall painter recreates every time they paint a wall blue. Why is the Blue Monochrome piece more than just a wall painted blue?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moma.org&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;works&amp;#x2F;80103&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.moma.org&amp;#x2F;collection&amp;#x2F;works&amp;#x2F;80103&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>drcongo</author><text>One of my favourite series in art is Yves Klein&amp;#x27;s blue work. For anyone unfamiliar, he found a blue that he considered the bluest possible blue [1], and went on a journey painting everything in that blue. I loved that he did this, and then eventually managed to get to an exhibition of his work at the Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away by it - it really needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it. There&amp;#x27;s something about his blue, that when painted on to a sculpture, almost makes the 3D disappear and the sculpture looks 2 dimensional. Extremely beautiful.&lt;p&gt;As a side note, some (many?) cultures around the world have no word for blue, blue is just other shades of green.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;International_Klein_Blue&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;International_Klein_Blue&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhompingWindows</author><text>Consider the time period and the historical context. It&amp;#x27;s modern times, Cold War is occurring, and WW1 and WW2 left scars across Western Europe and caused major changes in the art world, including being a boon to abstraction and fragmenting styles into many eclectic directions.&lt;p&gt;Chemistry has DRASTICALLY altered painting from the Renaissance to the World War era. New pigments have been constantly highlighted and displayed in artwork. Finally, an insanely blue blue has been invented, bluer than any other blue paint in the past.&lt;p&gt;The artist highlighted above attempts to showcase the new technology in its purest form. Though, despite this strive for purity of blue, the application is inherently uneven. If you look into the painted canvas up close, you will see imperfections and patterns in &amp;quot;just a wall&amp;quot;. It&amp;#x27;s also a statement, it may cause reactions and cause viewers to question the boundary between art and not-art.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not my cup of tea compared to masterworks of Van Gogh or Homer or any of the legendary painters, but art goes through many phases and is used to express many different ideas. What I do think is bonkers is that modern artists (who are well-connected) may be paid millions of dollars for these works, which to me don&amp;#x27;t showcase skill and talent, but which reward creative ideation and concepts.</text></comment>