A group of students sit in a white room filled with white art. The class clusters around a piece by Robert Ryman, who painted almost exclusively white paintings. Seated beneath the painting, ...

For centuries, painters have taken away color from their work as a way of enhancing it. This technique begins, like so many others in Western art, in the church. In the 12th Century, Cistercian monks ...

Burnt Umber & Ultramarine (1993), by Yun Hyong-keun. (Courtesy of Yun Seong-ryeol and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/New York/Tokyo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...