"Figure 4" was painted at a time when Mr. Johns began using bolder colors after having created monochrome canvases.
There are relatively few figurative paintings and lots of monochrome canvases that hint at a preference for Minimalism.
Several of his monochrome canvases reproduce the delicate celadon greens of these ceramics.
None is more intriguing than the comparison of the Manet with several monochrome canvases from the 1960's through the early 80's.
Still, sleek geometric sculptures and monochrome canvases are coming on like the latest thing.
Two, there have got to be better ways to rejuvenate or subvert the convention of the modernist monochrome canvas.
Kim's work in the early 1990s consisted of monochrome canvases depicting the skin tones of friends and family.
But on the reef edge the water was a paler, almost monochrome canvas.
With the monochrome canvases they painted during the early 50's, each in his own way arrived at an imagery of extreme austerity.