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The one-dimensional monochrome is the undifferentiated straight line.





Shiraga Fujiko, 1955




Ben Vautier, 1950's



Piero Manzoni, 1959



Piero Manzoni, 1961
    



La Monte Young




Draw a straight line
and follow it.

Composition 1960 # 9

Composition 1960 # 10
to Bob Morris



Continuity

The uncountable cardinality of line and plane were thematized in "word pieces" by Henry Flynt and in monochromes by Christer Hennix.




Each point on this line is a composition.

Henry Flynt, January 1961


"Since we can find no indivisible units in this world it is obviously extremely difficult to prove the existence of matter." [Kazimir Malevich: "A Letter to the Artists of Holland", 1922. (In: K.S. Malevich: Essays on Art, Vol. I. Copenhagen: Borgen, 1968, pp. 183-187.)]