Opportunities

In Black and White

An Online Exhibition

About the Call

Some of the earliest intentionally black-and-white artworks were the grisaille (grays) of the Middle Ages. By removing the color, these devotional works allowed the viewer to focus more directly on spiritual matters. The Renaissance brought further developments in both mastery of illusion and perspective. However, it was in the twentieth century, after the advent of photography, that artists like Kazimir Malevich, Bridget Riley, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Cy Twombly felt most free to experiment with form, texture, mark-making, and symbolic meaning without the use of color. Site:Brooklyn is looking for works across all mediums that show why color is a choice rather than a necessity in art.