| Monochrome Painting - The History | | | | 1891-1956)o Presences (1950) by Richard |
| The Contemporary Art form Monochrome | | | | Pousette Dart (New York, 1916-1992)o Voice of |
| Painting, as the name suggests, employs single | | | | Fire (1967) by Barnett Newman (New York, |
| color. The tonality and the expressivity of a single | | | | 1905-1970)o International Klein Blue (1962) by |
| texture characterize this art form. Monochrome | | | | Yves Klein (Paris, 1928-1962)o Ledger (1982) by |
| Painting originated as an art movement in the late | | | | Robert Ryman (Tennessee, USA, 1938)o Marriage |
| 19th century, gaining further momentum during | | | | of Reason and Squalor (1959) by Frank Stella |
| the World War I, when Dada (or Neo-Dada) | | | | (Masachusetts, USA, 1936)o White Flag (1998) by |
| activist group rejected the traditional aesthetics in | | | | Jasper Johns (Georgia, USA, 1930)o Collection of |
| art forms. Few famous examples of its whimsical | | | | One Hundred Plaster Surrogates (1990) by Allan |
| nature in that period are a blank canvas titled 'A | | | | McCullum (California, USA, 1944)o Presence of the |
| White Cow in a Snowstorm,' and an all black | | | | Heart (1962) by Sally Hazelet Drummond (USA, |
| painting called 'Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night.' | | | | 1924)o Return 1 (1965), The Dylan Painting (1986) |
| Monochrome Painting was established as a | | | | by Brice Marden (New York, USA, 1938) |
| 'Meditative Art' in the 20th century with the | | | | Conclusion |
| illusionist works of Suprematist and Constructivist | | | | Monochrome is very engaging to art critics across |
| artists, such as Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) and | | | | the world, due to its myriad possibility of |
| Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956). Although, no | | | | interpretations. It has often been criticized for its |
| artists dedicated themselves exclusively to | | | | lack of expression without the artist's comments. |
| painting monochrome, various Abstractionists and | | | | The 'pure' monochromes, where the delineation of |
| Expressionists of the 20th and 21st century | | | | objects is not clearly visible to the viewer, such |
| significantly contributed to this art form. | | | | as Black Paintings by Reinhardt, are particularly |
| Monochrome Artists & Artworkso Negroes | | | | misleading due to the creation's uncertainty of |
| Fighting in the Cellar at Night (1882) by Paul Bilhaud | | | | perception. Nevertheless, this art form had |
| (Allichamps, France, 1854-1933)o Black Square on | | | | significant influence on other art movements in |
| a White Field (1913), White on White (1918) by | | | | the West, such as Post-Painterly Abstraction, |
| Kazimir Malevich (Russia, 1879-1935)o The Death | | | | Minimalism, and Lyrical Abstraction. |
| of Painting (1921) by Alexandr Rodchenko (Russia, | | | | |