monochrome
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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
There is a moment in the 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz' where Dorothy swaps her monochrome world for glorious, eye-opening technicolour the minute she touches down in the Land of Oz.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The highlights of the early cases are canonically familiar: the blasted monochrome landscapes of C.R.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
While they shot in black and white on set with a digital camera and customized image mapping, the conversion was done in parallel: colorizing the monochrome footage with different mapping and fine-tuning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
There I am in her mirror eyes, in duplicate and monochrome, and a great deal smaller than life-sized.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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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, a painter whose elegantly furrowed monochromes and indefatigable drive made him a pillar of the Korean art world, died on Oct.
From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 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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