At first glance these canvasses look like flat monochromes, but a longer gaze suggests that they are undulating oceans of dots.
The strongest room of the show is one filled completely with his trademark blue monochromes.
It can take years of lobbying for a collector to get in her good graces.Mr Richter paints in a number of different figurative and abstract modes—"Pop" pictures based on newspaper clippings, townscapes, seascapes and photorealist portraits of members of his family, as well as minimal grey monochromes, meticulous colour grids and grand blurred canvasses.
These paintings were virtual monochromes of darkly glowing browns, maroons, reds, and blacks.
The reign of the Tongzhi emperor (1862 74) is principally notable for poor copies of earlier monochromes, including the peach-bloom glaze.
He purified the colour scheme to include only the neutrals gray, black, and white and monochromes of green.
Both copper red and blue were used as monochromes and, occasionally, together; but since these pigments required a slightly different firing temperature, one or the other is usually deficient in quality.
Screen painting in a rich polychromatic style persisted in parallel to the sparser, more obviously intellectual monochromes of the Zen tradition.
During this period he worked chiefly in monochromes of three colours gold, which he equated with physical material transformed to the spiritual; red, which he called "monopink" and equated with flesh-and-blood materiality; and ultramarine, which represented space but blue dominated, and in 1960 he patented International Klein Blue, called IKB.
The staple product of Jingdezhen was the fine white porcelain that made china a household word throughout the world; and as this ware lent itself peculiarly well to painted decoration, the vogue for painted porcelain rapidly replaced the old Song taste for monochromes.
There was plenty of black lace, rise-and-fall skirts in a palette of monochromes and stony neutrals, and the ubiquitous high-waisted, wide-leg trousers that were so prevalent at last week's New York shows.
