Example from the Cooper Hewitt collection 2017-5-15

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Monochromatic

Swatch of monochromatic wool velvet that is patterned by the juxtaposition of cut, uncut and voided velvet.

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18708349/

Analogous

This Soviet film poster for the German 1927 movie "Die Symphonie der Grossstadt" ["Symphony of a Metropolis"], depicts a mechanical man composed of a head with a movie camera for one eye, a watch on his neck, with one arm typing on a typewriter and the other arm in the form of a pen. This figure is placed in front of a flat and tilted skyscraper. The title of the film, in red, runs diagonally along the lower edge while the movie credits in white parallel the diagonal building.

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18714041/

Complementary

Fragments, 17th century

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18133471/

 

Triad

Columns of irregularly spaced stripes, each stripe alternating rectangles of gray and white with rectangles of black or yellow, in "White, Black, Gray, Yellow on Light Gray" colorway.

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18789723/

Tetrad

In lower section of cover, two block letters "A" (one in upper case, one in lower case) with gray stripes of different intensity, running like horizonal speed lines towards left edge of cover, are placed on bright yellow ground. Imprinted in red across upper edge of cover in Russian: Engineering Aesthetics 5/1990.

Print

https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18511697/

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