monochrome

Examples of monochrome in the following topics:

• Zen Ink Painting

  • These imports not only changed the subject matter of painting, but they also modified the use of color; the bright colors of Yamato-e yielded to the monochromes of painting in the Chinese manner of Sui-boku-ga (水) or Sumi-e (墨).
  • By the end of the 14th century, monochrome landscape paintings (sansuiga) had found patronage by the ruling Ashikaga family and became the preferred genre among Zen painters, gradually evolving from their Chinese roots to a more Japanese style.

• Kano School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The school began by reflecting a renewed influence by Chinese painting, and it continued to produce monochrome brush paintings in the Chinese style over the years.

• Renaissance Painting After Masaccio

  • Paolo Uccello also used light and contrast for dramatic effect in some of his almost monochrome frescoes, enlivening terra verde or "green earth" compositions with touches of bright vermilion.

• Picasso

  • Analytic cubism (1909–1912) is a style of painting Picasso developed along with Georges Braque using monochrome brownish and neutral colors.

• Woodblock

  • While prints were generally made in one color (monochrome) or two, they could also be painted by hand after printing.

• Chinese Literati Expressionism under the Ming Dynasty

  • Generally, Southern School painters worked in monochrome ink, focused on expressive brushstrokes, and used a somewhat more impressionistic approach than the Northern School's formal attention to detail, use of color, and highly refined traditional modes and methods.

• Japanese Literati Painting in the Edo Period

  • Their paintings—usually in monochrome black ink, sometimes with light color, and nearly always depicting Chinese landscapes or similar subjects—were patterned after Chinese literati paintings, called wenrenhua.

• Watercolor

  • In Chinese, Korean and Japanese painting, it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns.