A new late night exhibition at Bristol Museum has gathered works of legendary 60s artist Andy Warhol and Beatles album artist Peter Blake.
The exhibition has a diverse range of artistic styles which emphasis the importance of the use of colour, from Peter Blake and Andy Warhol works to maps of the London Underground and food labels.
The exhibition explores how colour is used in its work and its effect on our brains.
These works include Andy Warhol’s infamous Marylyn Monroe artwork as well as Blake’s female wrestler piece.
Warhol, who came to fame in the 1960s alongside Blake, who is well-known for creating the infamous Beatles album cover Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The exhibition is running a series of late-night openings with a selection of local DJs performing in the grand hall before visitors enter the pop art experience. The event is called “the secret life of colour”.
Karen Macdonald, head of the public engagement for Bristol Museum, said that the museum was running the exhibition late at night as it creates “an after-hours social experience, which combines creative and social experiences giving audiences a different perspective of the museum”.
Ms Macdonald told us that the exhibition “explores colour through art, science and nature so it made sense that the evening events be multidisciplinary as the rear hall is full of visual colours and music”.
The gallery holds a wide range or artistic work as well as natural history. With various stuffed animals making an appearance.
The late-night opening of the secret life of colour runs from 6-9pm and is due to run until the end of January.
The shows hope to add and enthuse local cultural connoisseurs’ love of various aspects of art and music.
Ms Macdonald said that “she hoped visitors would leave with renewed apperception of how colour influences aspects of our lives”.
She added: “Visitors hopefully would look more closely around them and discover new connections between creativity and science.”
The venue says that its been running late night events for a number of years now and hopes to continue in this with upcoming exhibitions.
The exhibition includes a diverse collection of various pieces of art and science, with various different interactive aspects, such as different coloured lenses, a video explaining how our brains see and process colour as well as multicoloured notes in which the visitors could write about their love of certain colours and what they mean to them.
