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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.

Lead white was the only white pigment for 2,000 years and it was toxic. From Malevich's White on White to modernist architecture, discover the history of white in art.