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Untitled No.104
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,060 $902
Untitled No.106
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,060 $902
Untitled No.102
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 61 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,060 $902
Exploflora Series No.68
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 86 x 86 x 3 cm Painting - 33.9 x 33.9 x 1.2 inch
$971 $826
Midday Metamorphosis
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,005 $854
Dripology No.14
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 113 x 113 x 2 cm Painting - 44.5 x 44.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,228
Poésie pastorale
Catherine Clare
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,674 $1,507
Warmin Poles - Océan et fonds marins
Janina Rossiter
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
Butterfly Park 10
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$234
Sans titre
JonOne
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,233 $2,009
I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle (#04, from the series Blank card)
Gfeller + Hellsgård
Painting - 200 x 150 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 inch
$7,144
Massifs des Fitz
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 36 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$391
Marine abstraite 2023-46
Fred Boutet
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$726
Cenizas y diamantes XIX
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
Pulse de vie, IV
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 95 x 270 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 106.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,786
Journal d'un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 13
Joan Miró
Print - 57 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.4 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$1,563
Journal D'Un Graveur - Vol. 2 Plate 6
Joan Miró
Print - 57 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.4 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$1,563
The Magic Circle
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,233
Mots croisés 4
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 85 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$681
Aquellos armarios tinosos
Salvador Dali
Print - 23.5 x 17 x 0.2 cm Print - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,284
Abstract Expression
Giorgio Lo Fermo
Painting - 91 x 82 x 1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 32.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,786
Cinematography inspired session #24
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$212
1918 02, 16
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Sculpture - 34.5 x 156 x 14 cm Sculpture - 13.6 x 61.4 x 5.5 inch
$6,698
Forest Whitaker
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,842
Le bouquet de l’esperance
Valérie Dragacci
Painting - 55 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
Peace & Freedom Dove (Aluminium Panel)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 61 x 3 cm Print - 24 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$1,116
Lionel joue à Bacchus dans les vignes
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$726
Paris Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris 5
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$893
Mini Lady Dior Trash Bag
Chinglish Wang
Sculpture - 19 x 24 x 9 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 9.4 x 3.5 inch
$9,265
Composition No.148
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 94 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,619
Composition No.144
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 94 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,619 $1,376
Dripology No.12
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 81 x 113 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 44.5 x 1.2 inch
$949 $807
Superior Beings
Sumit Mehndiratta
Print - 119 x 160 x 0.1 cm Print - 46.9 x 63 x 0 inch
$1,619 $1,376
Place Within Reach 18.
Petr Strnad
Painting - 51 x 40.2 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.8 x 0 inch
$346
Marine abstraite 2023-06
Fred Boutet
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$893
Marine abstraite 2023-02
Fred Boutet
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$893
Nailed it series No.163
Sumit Mehndiratta
Sculpture - 65 x 127 x 5 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 50 x 2 inch
$3,684 $3,131
Marine Abstraite 2022-14
Fred Boutet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,005
Pampelonne
Antoine Rose
Photography - 77 x 175 x 0.5 cm Photography - 30.3 x 68.9 x 0.2 inch
$11,163
César Archibald
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,581
Serie Cuerpos Escuetos
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 190 x 190 x 1 cm Painting - 74.8 x 74.8 x 0.4 inch
$7,037
Noises From the Outside
Lukasz Olek
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,456
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,177
Lotus Ornament - Black
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.2 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$837
Your rules my war - Blue
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 46 x 61 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.1 x 24 x 0.1 inch
$614
White Series, Profondeur
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,619
Meditation
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 55.5 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.9 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$670
Not there 2
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$614
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!