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Holiday UK Ceramic Container White
Kaws
Design - 41.9 x 12.7 x 8 cm Design - 16.5 x 5 x 3.1 inch
$2,213
To another land IV
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 114 x 87 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 34.3 x 0.8 inch
$18,810
Blue roofs 22
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
$1,200 $1,080
Vetements fall 21
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$600
Abstract n°568
Harry James Moody
Painting - 127 x 101.6 x 4.1 cm Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.6 inch
$7,635
Abstract n°513 L.A. September
Harry James Moody
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$12,725
Abstract n°512 L.A. September
Harry James Moody
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.6 inch
$12,725
Virtuous Woman
Kamal Obat
Photography - 59.4 x 41.9 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$350
Medusa out of this world
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 85 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$1,814
Walls & Façades Series #8
Lana Matsuyama
Painting - 200 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,944
Happy Birthday Champ (Artist's Proof)
Mr Brainwash
Print - 81.3 x 111.8 cm Print - 32 x 44 inch
$4,784
Skiers At Verbier - 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
$3,928
La fraîcheur du monde
Jean-Pierre Petit
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$664
Sauzon Belle-Île en Mer
Jacques Guillet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$531
Onde vibratoire blanche 4
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 46 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,217
Flowers & bees
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,098
Abstract 2394
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,527 $1,769
Abstract 2393
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,527 $1,769
Abstract 2392
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 80 x 210 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 82.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,527 $1,769
Mnemonic codes 001
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 63.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$945
Mnemonic codes 004
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 57.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.5 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,134
Otherworldly IV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,850
Fragile framework II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$1,300
New York - Back to the big white apple
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,992
Voyage au bout de la nuit (1)
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 70 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,300
Every day´s magic
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,660
Exuberance
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,000
If I only could deceive you 9
Luca Brandi
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,140
XXL late afternoon sunset
Susan Wooler
Painting - 75.9 x 102.1 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,086
Some enchanted nights 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,810
Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christel Haag
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$820
You'll never be mine 7
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,910
Miracles III, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Xiaoyang Galas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,560
Un souffle de légèreté
Dam Domido
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$575
Chronometer series 1 Turbulence of Time
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,106
Rain is shaking pine trees
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$996
And here they stand at night
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$996
Abstract 2234
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,240 $2,268
Medium Something To Suck #66
Hersk
Sculpture - 92 x 32 x 7 cm Sculpture - 36.2 x 12.6 x 2.8 inch
$1,604
Some enchanted nights 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,810
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!