A hint of blue, Innocence II

INNOCENCE II

Innocence II was one of the paintings selected for the Rome exhibition.

The painting, on a blue background, shows a mother holding her child in her arms. For the artist, blue seems to be a color that represents safety and eternity.

If you noticed, this color was also chosen by Jane in her illustration of William Blake for Dante's Divine Comedy. There is an immediate comfort in the blue, which in its swirl carries our gaze to the centre of the work and focuses our vision on the woman consoling her child. 

Blue has often been associated with gold, of which we see a single touch here, like an aura on the head of the child standing from behind. A heavenly colour, it also most often represents the Virgin Mary, as it was the most expensive pigment at the time and therefore reserved for the most symbolic sacred figures.