I've got the blues and it's a cryin' shame

Iscariot Blues (Chris Ofili, 2006)

..."it belongs to a suite of paintings called Blue Rider, an echo of Kandinsky’s Blaue Reiter, now a century old."

der blaue reiter

"Now, like Picasso’s, Ofili’s Black Period has given way to a Blue one – to a suite of pictures whose almost monochrome palette turns against the reds and greens and earth tones of his earlier work, which seem to find a form of serenity." - review by chuck