monochromistn.
/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)krəʊmɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌkroʊməst/ A person who paints, draws, or prints in monochrome. Also: a person who advocates the use of monochrome.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > [noun] > painting in monochrome > painter
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1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura v. 127 Heredices the Corinthian, and Thelophanes the Sicyonian, who were both of them but Monochromists.
1861 J. Bell Colour on Statues in Jrnl. Soc. Arts 9 424/1 Is the addition of coloring to statues to be looked upon as an advance in art, or a retrogression? The polychromists will, of course, hold it to be the former, while the monochromist in sculpture will represent that [etc.].
1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 99 Girtin was at first little more than a monochromist.
a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 180 The churches..of one unvaried stone colour..have been made over periodically to the tender mercies of the monochromist.
1989 Daily Tel. 14 July 21 The sale produced mixed results for that subtle late 18th century monochromist John Robert Cousins.
1998 N.Y. Times e 36/5 Each print features a single rectangle of dark green, hardly a popular color among monochromists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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