Since the late 19th century, many social innovations have affected the art scene. With the 1789 French Revolution, many segments of society entered into new inquiries. Changes from forms of governance to the awareness of individual rights brought different perspectives to art. The most important of these innovations is the freedom that artists gained while producing works. The artist now has the right to choose his or her own subject matter instead of receiving orders from any authority. In this way, the field of questioning of art expanded and the first steps of modernism were taken. With Romanticism, the artist entered into a brand new understanding by incorporating many subjects into their works of art, from the emotions they experienced to their perspective on nature. At the end of the 19th century, when the modernist understanding began, the artist left his studio and painted by observing nature and formed the impressionism movement. The artist, who discovered the effect of light on color, aimed to reflect this situation in his paintings. As a result, the artist put the form in the background and gradually led the object and the figure to the tendency to obscure on the surface. Modernism was the beginning of a process that changed the perspective on art. This changing perspective also prepared the ground for many debates with the glorification of the work of art and artists. While the voice of criticism against the commodification of art was raised, it caused art to become a protest state. While social life in Europe, which experienced two major world wars, turned into a wreck, the center of art moved from there to America. This environment, which freely offered artists every opportunity for the free space of art, allowed the art object to change on its own. The rapidly changing perspective on art after 1960 emerged as a reaction to the meaning Modernism attributed to artists, art spaces and artworks. By including the art space, the art object and the viewer in the artwork, it allowed for new expressions. One of these new expressions is installation art. Space and audience are complementary to the art object in installation art. In this study, some of the installations consisting of single color units in installation works created with space in mind were examined.
Keywords: Installation Art, Contemporary Art, The Concept of Monochrome Art