Black and White | Hidden Gallery

In the absence of colour, form, structure and composition come to the fore.

Pablo Picasso had a lifelong interest in removing colour from his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Perhaps most notably, in 1937 the artist selected a monochromatic palette to depict the bombing of a civilian village in northern Spain at the height of the Spanish Civil War. “Guernica,” now exhibited at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, was painted entirely in black, grey, and white to capture the chaos and sombre mood of the atrocity.
On this side of the English Channel, Bridget Riley burst onto the London art scene in the 1960s with artworks solely comprised of black and white. Fascinated by visual disruption, Riley explored the perceptual potential of her work, creating movement and vibrations by alternating between black and white geometric patterns. In the decades that followed, the artist introduced colour into her compositions, but Riley’s sixties-era outputs remain among her most desirable.

The use of black and white in art endures. Graphic, bold, and timeless, adding a monochromatic original print or drawing to your walls is one of the best ways to capture an artist at their compositional best.

Explore the rest of our monochromatic masterpieces, from Tracey Emin prints, with their raw emotional expression, to David Hockney art prints, which capture the vivid contrasts of modern life and nature in his signature style.

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- Le Corbusier, Nature morte, Opus 4, 1930-47
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