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Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 cm Photography - 30 x 20 inch
$2,958
Dining At The Eagle Club - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 61 x 50.8 cm Photography - 24 x 20 inch
$2,958
L'homme blanc qui vole
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 29 x 11.4 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 4.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,005
La pêche miraculeuse
Hervé Télémaque
Print - 100.1 x 81 x 0 cm Print - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.01 inch
$1,850
Eating frogs while watching ufos
Palina Kasino
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,924
Home is just a word
Palina Kasino
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,095
Intersections in black and white
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,095
The sky is still there
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,596
Woman in crisis IX
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$893
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,187
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,095
Electric silk
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,619
Liquid mirror, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,619
Liquid mirror, part 1.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,619
Unmet horizons, part 4.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,690
Unmet horizons, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,654
Unmet horizons, part 2.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,744
Abstract Mountain Vol. 8 - Decomposed
Arianna Rybcenko
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,154
Infinite Footprints I
Esther Medir
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,674
L'arbre qui cache la forêt
Gris De Garance
Painting - 30 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
Donald Duck x Loves PopArt?!
Koen Betjes
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$613
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 5
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,009
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 6
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,009
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 7
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 40 x 84 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 33.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,875
Antiquité et baroque, l’étude à Rome
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,791
Branchages - série Dripping et abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 110 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,535
S'7 dripping - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Monolith Inscription
Hiroya Yamada
Painting - 41 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$1,833
Cacao
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$659
Without Title (Sans Titre)
Emerich Meerson
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$20,093
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,340
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, NYC 1988
Bob Gruen
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
$1,500
Composed gate 2
Yonatan Wondwosen
Painting - 75 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,465
Méta-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$938
Extra-Terra - série Terre
Odile Lanoix
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,206
Tissage urbain
Elsa Pallier (El'Pallier)
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,607
Sauzon Belle-Île en Mer
Jacques Guillet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$536
Contemporary portrait "Inside the Painting"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,233
Le sauteur
Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga
Sculpture - 18 x 20 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 7.9 x 4.3 inch
$268
Orsay Oner (Festival culture urbaine. Paris.)
JP Malot
Painting - 52 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$1,340
Abstract no. 6421 XXL
Anita Kaufmann
Painting - 78.7 x 198.1 x 2 cm Painting - 31 x 78 x 0.8 inch
$1,523
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!