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Monochromatic vs Monochromist - What's the difference?

monochromatic | monochromist |

As an adjective monochromatic

is having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints for example shades in a black and white television.

As a noun monochromist is

an artist working in the monochromatic style.

monochromatic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having only one color, represented by differing hues and tints. For example shades in a black and white television.
  • Perceptive of only one color; unable to distinguish colors; total color blindness.
  • (figuratively) Plain, dull, lifeless.

    • Synonyms

    * (lifeless) See

    Antonyms

    * (single colored) polychromatic, multicolored, colorful, full color. * (single color perceptiveness) polychromatic. * (lifeless) lively, colorful, vivid.

    Related terms

    * monochromacy * monochromat

    monochromist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An artist working in the monochromatic style.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 29, author=Roberta Smith, title=DIY Art: Walk on It, Write on It, Stroke It, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His art connects to European monochromists like Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni and also to skeptical painters like Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool, but it may be best understood as an Americanized, Warholian version of Arte Povera; Mr. Stingel often favors cheap materials (Styrofoam, for example), but instead of being distressed they are always brand new, industrial and somehow implicitly American. }}