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Colour-themed complexities
An arresting exhibition of blue-inspired art works
Paula Rego: The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue, 2017; Milton Avery: Two Poets, 1963

TITLED after an eponymous 2017 work by Paula Rego, The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue, the Victoria Miro Gallery London is presenting blue works by artists exploring the colour’s broad symbolic and conceptual associations through a range of media.

Available to view online, the exhibition looks at artists working with blue not merely as a colour but as an essential element to the work’s meaning and interpretation, as a compositional device or to suggest a particular mood or atmosphere.

On show are new works by Jules de Balincourt, Ali Banisadr, Idris Khan, NS Harsha, Secundino Hernandez, Chris Ofili and Flora Yukhnovich and key examples from Milton Avery, Ilse D’Hollander, Chantal Joffe, John Korner, Isaac Julien, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Howardena Pindell, Tal R, Paula Rego, Do Ho Suh and Sarah Sze.

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