Black and White Paintings

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Sometimes, the choice to use black and white relate to the visual effect the artist wants to create, whilst others are more personal and symbolic.

BLACK AND WHITE ART

FAMOUS BLACK AND WHITE PAINTINGS

Witches’ Sabbath (The Great He-Goat) (c. 1821 – 1823) Francisco Goya

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Cart With Black Ox (1884) Vincent van Gogh

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The Black Square (1915) Kazimir Malevich

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Guernica (1937) Pablo Picasso

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Morning Glory With Black (1926) by Georgia O’Keeffe Zebra (1937) by Victor Vasarely The Charnel House (c. 1944 – 1945) by Pablo Picasso Chief (1950) by Franz Kline Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110 (1971) by Robert Motherwell

OTHER FAMOUS BLACK AND WHITE ART

Due to its popularity throughout time, there are a number of names for paintings created using only black, white, and mixtures of the two.  The most common names are monochrome paintings, grayscale paintings, and grisaille paintings, in which black and white are used to paint something that looks like a three-dimensional sculpture.

WHAT DO YOU CALL BLACK & WHITE ART?