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Alan Charlton

British, b. 1948

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“Alan Charlton is an artist who makes a gray painting”—so goes the artist’s self-stated epigram. In the 1970s, Charlton famously decided to make monochromatic paintings using only shades of gray and canvases whose dimensions are factors of 4.5 cm. …
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Career highlights
Group
Group show at a major institution
Centre Pompidou, and 3 more
Institution
Collected by a major institution
Tate, and 1 more
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Artforum
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documenta
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Related categories
Monochrome Painting
Contemporary Color Fields
Generative Art
Hard-Edged
Primary Abstraction
Contemporary British Art
Altered and Substituted Canvases
United Kingdom and Ireland
Use of Common Materials
London Artists
Line, Form, and Color
Grid
20th Century Art
Repetition
Contemporary Conceptualism
Contemporary Art
Patterns

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