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Rhapsody in Blue
Exhibition
Rhapsody in Blue
2 May 2018 – 27 Jul 2018
Event times
Monday - Friday 09:30 - 18:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 82 -92 Great North Road
- East Finchley
- London
England - N2 0NL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- East Finchley
This exhibition we wanted to explore the emotional response to the colour blue through ceramics and works on paper. The artists we are showing have either been drawn to blue or have been asked by us to express themselves focusing on the colour.
About
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
A rhapsody in music is episodic yet integrated, free-flowing in structure, featuring a range of highly contrasted moods, colour and tonality
For this exhibition we wanted to explore the emotional response to the colour blue through ceramics and works on paper. The artists we are showing have either been drawn to blue or have been asked by us to express themselves focusing on the colour. Blue is the colour that most people talk about being their favourite colour, yet we also associate it with feeling blue, so graphically expressed by Picasso in his blue period. Through the ages artists sought new ways to represent blue. Titian used pure ultramarine and Yves Klein in the 1950s patented his brilliant blue pigment which he used for his monochrome blue paintings. We think of cold when we think blue and a total winter snowscape has a blue tinge to the white. In contrast blue summer skies can warm the heart and lift the spirit like nothing else.
The result is an exciting juxtaposition of disparate work that is united by the colour blue
