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monochrome

[mon-uh-krohm] / ˈmɒn əˌkroʊm /


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In contrast to the gorgeous monochrome visuals, this is a land that stinks of complicity and delusion — of opportunists desperate to scramble onto the right side of history.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The director’s Oscar-nominated previous film, “Cold War,” was a decades-spanning love story packed into 88 minutes, and as such barely delved beneath its pristine, similarly monochrome surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

To demonstrate this precision, the researchers used a standard laser to create a microscopic monochrome portrait of Albert Einstein on a thin piece of the material, with points spaced just 700 nanometers apart.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

Long Beach’s R&B savant Giveon kept his Coachella stage to a monochrome motif during his sundown set.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

A layer of clouds muddied the sky, bleeding the surrounding color, leaving everything monochrome and drab.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Highlights include 1966’s Nebraska, one of the gray-green monochromes that established Marden as an abstract painter in an era when critics were ready to dismiss painting altogether in favor of performance and installation art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

In Norway, Opie hoped to explore — and contribute to — the long history of blue in art, from Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period to Yves Klein’s monochromes and Derek Jarman’s elegiac film “Blue.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The artist said that none of his monochromes resembled each other and were "of quite a different essence and atmosphere", according to Christie's.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Park Seo-Bo, 91, a painter whose monochromes and drive made him a pillar of the Korean art world, died of cardiopulmonary arrest on Oct.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

Instead of bookshelves, this wall was crowded with framed pictures of all sizes, some in vibrant colors, others dull monochromes.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer


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