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 +[[Image:Black Square by Malevich.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Black Square]]'' (1915) by [[Kazimir Malevich]]]]
 +[[Image:Combat de nègres dans un tunnel.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night]]'' (1882) by [[Paul Bilhaud]], here shown in the 1887 version [[appropriation|appropriate]]d by [[Alphonse Allais]] as published in ''[[Album primo-avrilesque]]'' (April fool-ish Album)]]
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'''Monochrome''' comes from the two [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''mono'' (μoνο, meaning "only" or "alone"), and ''chroma'' (χρωμα, meaning "color"). A '''monochromatic''' object has a single [[color]]. '''Monochrome''' comes from the two [[Greek language|Greek]] words ''mono'' (μoνο, meaning "only" or "alone"), and ''chroma'' (χρωμα, meaning "color"). A '''monochromatic''' object has a single [[color]].
- +==See also==
-== Monochromes in art ==+*[[Duotone]] – the use of two ink colors in printing
- +*[[Halftone]] – the use of black and white in a pattern that is [[perception|perceived]] as shades of grey (may be extended also to color images)
-* [[Yves_Klein#Monochrome_works|Yves Klein]]+*[[Polychrome]] – of multiple colors, the opposite of monochrome
-* [[Black-and-white]]+*[[Monochromacy]] (color blindness)
-* [[Paul Bilhaud]]+*[[Selective color]] – use of monochrome and color selectively within an image
-* [[Black Square]]+*[[Monochrome painting]] – monochromes in art
-* [[Color field]] painters+==Examples outside of art==
-* [[Lucio Fontana]]+*[[The black page in Tristram Shandy]]
-* [[Robert Ryman+*[[The black plate in Utriusque Cosmi Maioris ]]
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Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night (1882) by Paul Bilhaud, here shown in the 1887 version appropriated by Alphonse Allais as published in Album primo-avrilesque (April fool-ish Album)
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Negroes Fighting in a Tunnel at Night (1882) by Paul Bilhaud, here shown in the 1887 version appropriated by Alphonse Allais as published in Album primo-avrilesque (April fool-ish Album)

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Monochrome comes from the two Greek words mono (μoνο, meaning "only" or "alone"), and chroma (χρωμα, meaning "color"). A monochromatic object has a single color.

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