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Monochrome   Listen
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Monochrome  n.  A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.





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"Monochrome" Quotes from Famous Books



... vignettes in his boyhood, now in his youth he tried to emulate the fine abstract flow and searching expressiveness of the etched line, and the studied breadth of shade, by using the quill-pen with washes. At first he kept pretty closely to monochrome. His object was form, and his special talent was for draughtsmanship rather than for colour. But it was this winter's study of the "Liber Studiorum" that started him on his own characteristic course; and while we have no pen-and-wash work of his before 1845 ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
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... had hooded her head was now a little thrown back, her face being somewhat elevated. A profile was visible against the dull monochrome of cloud around her; and it was as though side shadows from the features of Sappho and Mrs. Siddons had converged upwards from the tomb to form an image like neither but suggesting both. This, however, was mere superficiality. ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
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... paintings of Eugene Carriere, for instance his masterly portrait of Paul Verlaine, a song, sometimes an entire role, may be worked out in monochrome; though the gradations of tint are numerous, they are consistently kept within their preconceived colour-scheme. Some few exceptional singers, like Jean-Baptiste Faure or Maurice Renaud, have this gift of many shades of the one colour in their singing of certain roles. The colour is determined ...
— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam
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Words linked to "Monochrome" :   exposure, colored, coloured, black and white, picture, painting, monochromatic, monochromous, photo


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