Word: monochromaticism
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THE DESIGN of Cocteau's plays has been compared to the sparing, classic style of the profiles drawn by Picasso. The words he uses are simple and conversational, there are no elusive metaphors or philosophical musings in his script. The set is almost monochromatic and completely uncluttered, the few props...
Senators and Congressmen will get a chance to judge a fellow legislator this week-on photography skills. Some 50 color photographs by Tennessee Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., 48, will go on show at a Capitol Hill gallery. Signed by the Senator, the most effective pictures are stark, almost monochromatic...
The current show at Manhattan's Asia House is, in effect, a tribute to Cleveland and its director, the eminent connoisseur of Chinese art Dr. Sherman Lee. Entitled The Colors of Ink, it is a selection of classical Chinese black-to-white paintings on silk and paper lent from...
Appealing Melodies. Rachmaninoff's composing style, like his playing, was undeniably showy at times. Further, the substance unquestionably fell short of great music. Rachmaninoff s muse simply did not have the requisite universality; try as he might, and he did try, he could not transcend for long the monochromatic...
As a moralist, Halberstam tends to paint his villains monochromatic black. The distinctions between tormented, self-divided men like McNamara and a hyperoptimist like Rostow get blurred by the author's urge to define a single Viet Nam type. Halberstam's heroes seem more varied, more living. His...