“(There) was a famous debate called the paragone ... In fact, some painters chose to reproduce color paintings in monochrome as a way of showing off – most likely to other artists.

The second show, Untitled (Black Painting), removed the pretense of even showing objects, opting for chalk outlines of famous monochromatic paintings from throughout art history. In this, the ...

Nothing else mattered.” The exhibit includes 200 works, including Klein’s mesmerizing ultramarine monochrome paintings. Appropriately, Klein’s blue was mentioned in a recent Oprah magazine ...

Fascinated by infinitude, the artist used blue — the color of the ocean and sky, in all their mysterious vast blueness — to convey it, making roughly 300 monochrome paintings in his signature ...

Following a troubled upbringing, overshadowed by the fear of inheriting a hereditary mental illness, he created one of the most famous faces in art in The Scream, a rare version of which appears in ...

Students in Roger Darren High’s art II class at Star City High School recently created monochromatic acrylic paintings of bulldogs using just one color. Monochromatic refers to a color scheme ...