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Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today

Opens: 28/05/2009 Closes: 12/09/2009 Tate Liverpool
Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein and Andy Warhol are just three of the names boasted by this exhibition, which traces the liberation of colour over the past 60 years. Created by the MoMA originally, it can all get rather garish. Bring your golf visor. For more information visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/colourchart/default.shtm Buy: https://tickets.tate.org.uk/performancelist.asp?ShowID=3427&Source=web
 
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The Independent“A tin of paint, a roller and an idea...” ColourChart is that engaging thing, a show that takes something familiar and, by focussing on it, makes you see it afresh. By all means go...
 
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The Times“Surely colour has always been as mysterious as it is elemental...” Colour, to these artists, is not a vehicle for mood or emotion. It does not evoke feelings or frames of mind. It is not a conveyor of metaphysical meaning. It is simply a matter-of-fact element of the work.
 
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Guardian“Optical sludge, a sort of artistic makeup counter...” Colour Chart sets a lot of ideas in motion, but somehow fails to gain traction. It's not a show about paintings, although it contains lots of them. It's a show about attitudes and approaches to colour, sociological as much as sensual, conceptual...
 
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