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Newel Hunter
Painting - 45.7 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 18 x 24 x 0.8 inch
€2,226
Tribute to Picasso
M. Asuncion Raventos
Painting - 97 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,800
Silencieusement, elle glissait sur l’air
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,360
Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 180 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€6,600
Abstract Wall Art Drawing/Painting #01092023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€3,876
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,060
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€2,960
Peau de Mur 22
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Peau de Mur 21
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,260
Image drawing: Growth lightbox
Jenny Owens
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
€450
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 822
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,226
ILOVEYOU With Girl (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
€34,843
ILOVEYOU With Girl (L)
David Drebin
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
€14,034
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 712
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 67.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26.6 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€3,097
Dynamique de l'équilibre
Florence Boré
Painting - 107 x 74 x 0.5 cm Painting - 42.1 x 29.1 x 0.2 inch
€3,600
Série les Krégins - Sculpture coquillage Raku
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 13 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
€750
Série les Krégins - Sculpture coquillage Raku
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 21 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
€750
It’s Not So Black and White
Laura Harris
Painting - 91 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
€4,305
Zebras under the African sky
PickWick
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€800
Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
En équilibre
Marie-Odile Wagner
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Breeze - Arm Chair
Poonam Choudhary
Design - 73.7 x 65 x 82 cm Design - 29 x 25.6 x 32.3 inch
€1,452
Mareggiata al tramonto
Bruno Di Giulio
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€196
Sea sunset swell n*8 - Italian painting
Bruno Di Giulio
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€325
Hiding Places - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Special one - series Bunnies
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Moon night cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 31 x 39 x 3 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 inch
€1,110
Beta Collage 71
Michael Filonow
Photography - 50.8 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 40 x 0.1 inch
€736
Un autre visage
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€360
Le Sentier
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 21 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
€190
Vive les fleurs et les fleurs
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 30 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€470
Croco white marble bag
Phantom Art
Sculpture - 40 x 34 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.4 x 7.1 inch
€7,500
Le bien et le mal (2)
Chantal Westby
Painting - 122 x 91 x 5 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 2 inch
€2,400
Steady as she goes
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 88.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 44 x 35 x 0.2 inch
€5,759
White
In physics, white is the sum of all the colours. To the human eye, white appears to be the total absence of colour. Amongst artists, white and its many uses in art are continuously evolving and challenging those who would embrace them. Is white, then, a non-colour, or an enhancer of colours? Intangible or material? Absence or excess?
Since Antiquity, white has been appreciated for its symbolic value. In Ancient Greece, where they would paint their statues, it was a sign of incompletion, whereas the Romans believed it showed pomp and imperialist virtue. With the rise of Christianity, white was used in opposition to black in order to emphasise moral dichotomies: the pure, divine white against the darkness. In some cases, however, white was used to show sickness or death, most notably in the pallid representations of the skeletal, crucified Christ.
In the Renaissance white was used to sublimate faces and backgrounds. Da Vinci even based his sfumato technique on the soft transition from light into darkness. Throughout the history of painting, white was considered precious for its ability to reflect light. It attracts the gaze even when used in the tiniest quantities, and illuminates the subject, drawing out stunning contrasts as seen in the works of Rembrandt, or in Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring.
With the rise of Impressionism, white was used as the brightest tone amongst shades of grey. While Manet produced canvases which were forerunners to monochromes, including The Reader, which was almost pure white, Monet delivered a stunning gradient of whites whilst recreating the snow at his home in Giverny. The first true white monochrome appeared with the arrival of Malevitch's White Square on a White Background. The artist said 'I have broken the blue boundary of colour limits, and come out into the white'.
Modernists were equally passionate about white and valued it incredibly highly. Miro in particular questioned the status of white on canvases. In his painting Woman, Bird and Star white is in parts boldly painted, but is also distinctive for its absence around the star. Picasso, on the other hand, explored white in conjunction with his famous coloured periods. Piero Manzoni became famous thanks to his 'achromatic' paintings, a series of canvases produced exclusively in shades of white. Moving into the 20th century, white became synonymous with minimalist abstraction. For artists like Kandinsky, white was a cosmic colour, associated with a spiritual search for the absolute, guiding the artists as he seek to express his emotions.
Today, white remains an ever popular subject. Roman Opalka made his name creating a series of white numbers of a white background, while Daniel Arsham reinvents white walls in galleries by letting his artwork drip down onto them. White is a colour with multiple symbolic interpretations. The colour of divinity or humility; of purity and immaculate, of emptiness and absence, but always colour. If blue has Klein and red has Rothko, it appears that no artist has yet succeeded in fully mastering white – but maybe you'll find them in our selection!