Monochromaster versions al all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are on view at the Vermeer exhibition in the Rijksmuseum

What happens when you take all the pixels from a work of art and calculate the median color? You get a monochrome which in principle still contains all the information of the original, just evenly distributed. I then print these at the full size of the original work. Are these monochromes new original works, or are they derivatives, ghosts, of the originals? I believe they maintain a spark of essence of the originals.
Monochromaster versions al all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are on view at the Vermeer exhibition in the Rijksmuseum
Monochromaster versions al ALL the paintings by Johannes Vermeer
A Monochromaster video version of Psycho by Hitchcock
Monochromasters Andy Warhol 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, giclée print on canvas 16 x 20 inch
A Monochromaster video version of Blue Velvet by David Lynch
A digital Monochromaster version of Colors for a Large Wall by Ellsworth Kelly
A digital Monochromaster version of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch
I made a Monochrome version of all 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol, by averaging the color of each to the average value.
A digital Monochromaster version of Everydays – The First 5000 Days by Beeple
A digital Monochromaster version of David Hockney’s The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011