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Got the blues?

23/3/2014

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Most of us experience some version of Sunday night or Monday morning blues at some point in our lives. But the blues aren’t always a sign of feeling down. Blues in music can be exuberant. Blue skies are rejuvenating. Blues can be life affirming and a welcome shock to the system.

Take this ultramarine cockerel by contemporary artist Katharina Fritsch. Standing on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, it’s an unmissable wake-up call, a cock-a-doodle-doo of a "Good morning London!"
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Hahn/Cock by Katharina Fritsch (2013)
And if it could speak, it might say “Come and see the Veronese exhibit at the National Gallery just behind me.” Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance Venice displays around 50 of the sumptuous paintings by Paolo Veronese, one of the most renowned artists in 16th-century Venice.

The colours in his works are stunning, even after more than 450 years, and the fabrics and settings are lush and detailed.
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The Conversion of Mary Magdalene by Paolo Veronese (1548)
So next time you’re feeling down, head to Trafalgar Square for a bit of colour therapy and embrace the blues.
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