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Monochromatic Art: Why Painters Choose to Work in a Single Color
Yves Klein patented a blue. Malevich painted a black square. Reinhardt spent a decade on black. Discover why 20th-century painters reduced art to a single color.
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Yves Klein patented a blue. Malevich painted a black square. Reinhardt spent a decade on black. Discover why 20th-century painters reduced art to a single color.

From charcoal on cave walls to Vantablack, the blackest substance ever made, discover the history of black in art and the bitter feud over who gets to use it.