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Monochrome   /mˈɑnəkrˌoʊm/   Listen
Monochrome

noun
1.
Painting done in a range of tones of a single color.
2.
A black-and-white photograph or slide.  Synonym: black and white.





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"Monochrome" Quotes from Famous Books



... not colourists make illuminations and not paintings. Painting, properly speaking—unless one wants to produce a monochrome—implies the idea of colour as one of its fundamental elements, together with chiaroscuro, proportion, and perspective. Proportion applies to sculpture as to painting. Perspective determines the outline; chiaroscuro produces relief by the arrangement of shadow and ...
— The Mind of the Artist - Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art • Various


Words linked to "Monochrome" :   coloured, photograph, exposure, pic, photo, painting, picture, colored, colorful


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