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Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$403
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Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$403
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$492
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$380
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$72,700
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$6,040 $5,738
Sculpture - 53 x 53 x 5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 20.9 x 2 inch
$2,125
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$280
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$246
Painting - 49 x 38 cm Painting - 19.3 x 15 inch
$391
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,015
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,015
Painting - 96.5 x 127 x 3.8 cm Painting - 38 x 50 x 1.5 inch
$5,900
Painting - 137.2 x 106.7 x 8.9 cm Painting - 54 x 42 x 3.5 inch
$7,500
Painting - 120 x 80 x 25 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 9.8 inch
$9,015
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,815
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$537
Painting - 70 x 100 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
$3,579
Sculpture - 235 x 160 x 30 cm Sculpture - 92.5 x 63 x 11.8 inch
$23,488
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$363
Photography - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$503
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,790
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$252
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$9,507
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$9,507
Painting - 28.5 x 26.67 x 1.27 cm Painting - 11.2 x 10.5 x 0.5 inch
$4,698
Painting - 190 x 95 x 25 cm Painting - 74.8 x 37.4 x 9.8 inch
$12,000
Painting - 251.61 x 251.61 x 19.35 cm Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 7.6 inch
$12,000
Painting - 200 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
$20,132
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$89 $81
Painting - 115 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,713
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,707
Painting - 35 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$13,981
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 36 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 14.2 inch
$403
Painting - 140 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$15,658
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,152
Print - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8 x 12 x 0 inch
$201
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$548
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$548
Photography - 36 x 29 cm Photography - 14.2 x 11.4 inch
$13,422
Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 2.6 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$134
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 33 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 13 inch
$895
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$895
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,823
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$503
Print - 59 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$122
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!
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