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- noun Plural form of
monochrome .
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Going back to the visual art metaphor how 'bout those monochromes after monochromes after monochromes...
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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The first object you see, in a room that's full of impressive painted monochromes, is a modest colored drawing made by Klein in 1954, which depicts three one-color abstractions -- in yellow, red and green -- looming huge above the footlights on an empty theatrical stage.
Hirshhorn exhibit offers multiple sides of artist and performer Yves Klein 2010
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Pousette-Dart's white paintings are not really monochromes.
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Going back to the visual art metaphor how 'bout those monochromes after monochromes after monochromes...
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The first object you see, in a room that's full of impressive painted monochromes, is a modest colored drawing made by Klein in 1954, which depicts three one-color abstractions -- in yellow, red and green -- looming huge above the footlights on an empty theatrical stage.
Hirshhorn exhibit offers multiple sides of artist and performer Yves Klein 2010
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The first object you see, in a room that's full of impressive painted monochromes, is a modest colored drawing made by Klein in 1954, which depicts three one-color abstractions -- in yellow, red and green -- looming huge above the footlights on an empty theatrical stage.
Hirshhorn exhibit offers multiple sides of artist and performer Yves Klein 2010
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With more than 200 works, including pastels, watercolors and colored monochromes, the exhibition will look at how the artist was a pioneer in the postwar art world.
The Short List 2010
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The first object you see, in a room that's full of impressive painted monochromes, is a modest colored drawing made by Klein in 1954, which depicts three one-color abstractions -- in yellow, red and green -- looming huge above the footlights on an empty theatrical stage.
Hirshhorn exhibit offers multiple sides of artist and performer Yves Klein 2010
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These 22 pictures of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi, made by the Richmond-based Nesmith back in June, don't entirely escape the Burtynsky trap of beauty -- their rich monochromes and narrow lines of focus create gauzy scenes.
Art review: ÂPhil Nesmith: Flow' at Irvine Contemporary & Renate Aller at Adamson Gallery 2010
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Angela Barrett's illustrations are nonpareil, par excellence monochromes that perfectly reflect the setting of the desolate Essex marshes and when colour is used it is subtle and muted.
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