As ideas for exhibitions go, Monochrome at the National Gallery sounds cussedly dull and joyless. A show restricted to painting in black and white? What an austere, hair-shirt proposition. How ...

When Asian art was influencing American art in the 1960s, abstract painting in Korea was also evolving. By the mid-1970s, a distinctively Korean style — which was later named Dansaekhwa or "the ...

Monochrome: Painting in Black and White review. 4 out of 5 stars. Art; Recommended. Wednesday 22 November 2017. Share. ... Amazingly, the room of modern abstract painting is actually great.

Monochrome, of course, refers to the use of tones of any single color and not necessary black and white, and one of the show’s deviations from black and white, Olafur Eliasson’s immersive ...