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El encanto de un foxterrier disecado
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
Two Circles
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 101.5 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 40 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$11,491
Chinese Interior #20
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 49 x 42 cm Photography - 19.3 x 16.5 inch
$2,018
Chinese Interior #48
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,018
Chinese Interior #36
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,018
Grande Lutte Chinoise 1
François Garros
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$5,157
Série : Pièces de mer de Castoul
Manfred Paul
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$2,018
Geometrical V
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 149.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$2,560
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,810
Energy dance. White ceramic sculpture of a woman. Energy lines.
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$1,345
Energy dance. White ceramic sculpture of a woman. Between the palms.
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 25 x 11 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.3 x 3.1 inch
$1,345
Urbain brutalisme, Bleu Majorelle - Photographie digigraphie
Claire Giraudeau
Photography - 70 x 50 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$280
Les mots n'ont plus de bouche
Valerio Adami
Print - 31 x 28.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 12.2 x 11.2 x 0 inch
$336 $303
Dressing for dance
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$817
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$172
Michelangelo’s David bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$239
Arbre sous la neige
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
$740
An Island in the air
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 20 x 47 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
$561
De force et de dentelle
Ledentelier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,018
Canvas 179
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 147.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 58.2 x 1.5 inch
$2,399
Guia ups
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 31.8 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,800
Canvas 185
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 117.9 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 46.4 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,577
Canvas 186
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 110 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,307
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
The beautiful midsummer night's dream
Peter Hofmann
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 70.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 27.8 x 0 inch
$2,522
Gente en la niebla
Débora Sánchez Viqueira
Painting - 137 x 274 x 3 cm Painting - 53.9 x 107.9 x 1.2 inch
$14,021
Dissension au confessionnal
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$5,045
Anonimo Pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 115 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,242
Mountains
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.8 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.1 inch
$3,251
Mountain
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.1 inch
$2,691
Net for dreaming clouds
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,410
Horizontale II, aquagravure originale
Bernard Alligand
Print - 52 x 52 x 1 cm Print - 20.5 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,009
Intemerata
Patrick Strajnic
Photography - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,446
White & Metal II
Attila Mata
Sculpture - 103 x 52 x 60 cm Sculpture - 40.6 x 20.5 x 23.6 inch
$13,285
Absence with Earth and Green
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,579
Absence with Black and Valley
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,579
Absence with black and Ochre
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,579
Absence with Black and Horizon
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,579
Absence with Black and Fortress
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,579
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!