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- Monochrome painting as it is usually understood today began in Moscow, with Suprematist Composition: White on White [ 14 ] of 1918 by Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich.
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Among the first was Kazimir Malevich who about 1917–18 created a series of white on white paintings (see suprematism). The German minimalist artist’s known as ‘ Zero ’ used monochrome as an opportunity to unveil the artistic process, often slashing or creating raised shapes on white or black canvases.
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- Kazimir Malevich. Fascinated with speed and its corresponding technology like airplanes and cars, Kiev-born artist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) joined composer Mikhail Matyushin, and writer Alexei Kruchenykh in 1913 to create a manifesto for the First Futurist Congress.
- Josef Albers. German-American artist Josef Albers (1888-1976) is thought of as one of the foremost leaders in monochrome and colour theory. After studying art at the famous Bauhaus school of art, design, and architecture; he became a professor there.
- Ad Reinhardt. Adolph Frederick Reinhardt, most commonly known as Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) was an abstract painter active in the New York arts scene from the 1930s to 1960s.
- Frank Stella. “What you see is what you see” Frank Stella (1936- ) famously explained in a 1964 radio interview about his Black Paintings series when he was only in his late 20s.
Multiple examples of monochrome artworks throughout history: an Ancient Egyptian faience statuette of Isis and Horus, 332–30 BC; a gold Tairona pendant, 10th–16th century; a Chinese carved red lacquer, late 14th century; and the Neoclassical Petit Trianon in Versailles, France, by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, 1764.
Monochrome painting was initiated at the first Incoherents exhibition in Paris in 1882, with a black painting by the poet Paul Bilhaud entitled Combat de Nègres pendant la nuit ("Battle of negroes during the night"), which had been missing since 1882 when it was rediscovered in a private collection in 2017–2018. [ 2 ]
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Monochrome is the first major exhibition to explore the history of painting in black and white from the 12th to the 21st centuries. It takes a radical new look at what happens when artists cast aside the colour spectrum and identifies watershed moments in the history of the genre.
Nov 1, 2017 · Jean-Dominique Ingres created the image in black and white to demonstrate his mastery of shading. Frank Stella, "Tomlinson Court Park I" (1959) — The absence of color in abstract painting is...
