Monochrome Art

Monochrome: painting or print that is done in one color only, but combines different tonalities.

Monochrome art became a kind of radical vanguard that tested the limits of pure art. However, this artistic—or chromatic—trend has a long tradition that is seen in a variety of artistic movements.

The geometric abstraction of Yturralde, to the abstract lyricism of Teixidor, the postmodernism of Klein or the expressionism of Sicilia, are examples of the diversity of the styles of contemporary art.

A common trait of monochrome art: color is of the utmost importance as the materialization of sensibility, visual perception becomes sensory perception. The artist challenges the viewer to submerge herself in an infinite space of color and experience a connection with the immaterial.

If, in the beginning, it was difficult to assimilate monochrome art because the conventional wisdom was that one color was not enough to create an artwork, today no one can deny the importance of monochrome art.