New Pigment YInMn: Blue like the pros

is Heavenly, mystical, divine: charged with No other earthly color so intense with transcendence, such as Blue. In the Firmament, blaze radiates cold flame and glitters of water. The mother of God wrapped himself in the reflection of the infinity, Leonardo to celebrated you in a gentle Sfumato, romantics searched for you in flowers, expressionist chased her as a blue rider. The performance artist Yves Klein, fascinated by Anything he saw in the blue of the Sky above the Côte d’azur, had his own ultramarine mix and patenting: IKB, International Klein Blue. So he covered sponges or women, the rolled-over canvases.

Ursula Scheer

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Perhaps he would be tempted today to grab YInMn, the first new inorganic blue pigment for more than a hundred years, are now urging a need on the market for Artists. It was discovered that a mixed oxide of 2009 randomly of chemists at Oregon State University, as they fused Yttrium, Indium, and manganese. The result is a bright blue and is extremely colour-abiding powder, temperature-resistant, heat-reflective, light-resistant, opaque, neither in water nor in Oil, bleach, accordingly, is non-toxic. In such a purity this section of the color circle – between cobalt and ultramarine blue – to have so far.

From luxury to mass product

Who order now thrilled YInMn, which operates under the name Oregon Blue, Mas Blue, or Yin Min Blue, on Online platforms, for handmade, such as Etsy wants to check whether the powder is authentic. Also, Crayolas crayon “Bluetiful” is only inspired by YInMn. The researchers from Oregon have the Patent on the Pigment, the American company Shepherd Color co. the license for commercial use. In the local trade of the fabric is reported as “only for industrial purposes”. In America, he comes around at Golden Paints, as acrylic paint from the Tube.

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