The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century. The artists who ...

A group of students sit in a white room filled with white art. The class clusters around a piece by Robert Ryman, who painted almost exclusively white paintings. Seated beneath the painting, ...

For centuries, painters have taken away color from their work as a way of enhancing it. This technique begins, like so many others in Western art, in the church. In the 12th Century, Cistercian monks ...

Anne Appleby, “First Light (Robin’s Return)” (2019), oil and wax on canvas, 30 x 30 in. (all images courtesy of Franklin Parrasch Gallery) I want to begin with two quotes. The first is from the press ...

These monochrome paintings are part of a study to better understand value and paint application. Working without full color reveals how different oils behave unexpectedly. It’s a quiet but powerful ...

"Metamorphosis and Malice" brings together three of the only known monochromatic paintings by Pontormo, a leading painter in sixteenth century Florence. In Metamorphosis and Malice, the Bowdoin ...

LIGHT REPAIRS: A ROUNDTABLE ON THE RESTORATION OF MARK ROTHKO’S HARVARD MURALS Shortly after Jackson Pollock completed Number 5, 1948, the artist Alfonso Ossorio purchased the painting from the Betty ...