Avatars of the 1800s

This is the Fugate family of Kentucky, they, as you can see, have BLUE skin! This is actually a real photograph (photoshop did not exist in the 1800s). All this time I thought the Smurfs and Avatars were the only ones with blue skin. The Fugates had a sickness called Methamoglobinemia, which is a disorder characterized by the presence of a higher than normal level of methemoglobin in the blood. 

Paul Karason (above) rubbed collodial silver on his face which, as a result, turned his skin blue. ( Not to be inappropriate, but doesn't he resemble Papa Smurf?) I wonder what colour he turns when he tans. 


I actually find these people fascinating. Could you imagine having blue skin? How horrible but cool at the same time. I would always dress like Smurfette. 


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Yves Klein Blue

So for the longest time, I have been wondering who this sculpture is from mainly due to the amazing color that you cannot see in this picture. I took it at the Pompidou Center (or as the Parisians call it the Boubourg)  with my phone in Paris a couple years ago when I still lived there. Today,  I read an article on the upcoming color of 2012, which is, by the way, Tangerine Tango ( the picture below). Thanks to the article I finally found out who the sculpture was by and was reunited with the amazing indigo blue he used on a lot of his pieces. 

                                       

Tangerine Tango ( the new "it" color of 2012)

Via freeartlondon

Here is a picture of Yves Klein with a similar sculpture to the one I saw at the Boubourg behind him.

Via wikipaintings

This is the sculpture I am talking about, but thankfully, this picture does the sculpture justice. 

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Such an amazing hue of blue. 

Via zoolander52

An installation of Yves Klein's work that displays the color beautifully.