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Travelling out of a Pandemic
Daniel Marcoux
Painting - 183 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 72 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$4,253
Tempête de couleurs
Daniel Marcoux
Painting - 122 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$4,253
The Lost Feathers
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 51 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$5,191
Emerald Orgasm
Rakel Routarinne
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$5,548
Shreds of Memory V
Jakub Pasierkiewicz
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,308
Shreds of Memory II
Jakub Pasierkiewicz
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,308
Où est Charlie ? V
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$140
Liberty
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 65 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,340
Pink Champagne Motel, Wildwood, New Jersey
Richard Heeps
Photography - 80 x 63.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25 x 0 inch
$916
Paris, rue du Petit Pont
Lyne Seybel
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,060
The sense of silence
Sandra Vibe
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,842
Seaking sunlights
Annalisa Baumgart
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,953
Rock on white - 3D textured minimalism calm modern music
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,907
The escape (La huida)
Sonia Domenech
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,210
En solitaire… (paysage abstrait 2020)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,674
Un'isola nell'aria
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,116
Un'isola nell'aria
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 60 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,116
This place needs your attention
Christa David
Photography - 25.4 x 22.86 x 2 cm Photography - 10 x 9 x 0.8 inch
$1,337
The show must go on no.9, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Bea Garding Schubert
Painting - 140 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$3,600
Painting research 4
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$5,358
Fishing for absurdity
Palina Kasino
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,609
Régate à l'horizon... II (Paysage abstrait 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,116
The Path of the Squares
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 7.9 inch
$4,492
Scrooge McDuck - Louis Vuitton III
Artash Hakobyan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,286
Untitled - flower marble
Ilja Freer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,244
The power of light 2
Nándor Bozsóki
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,869
Don't blame me
Elisabeth Laplante
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,655
White Top 37
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 23 x 16 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$2,601
White Top 39, Black Bottom 21
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 56 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 22 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
$5,012
Black Bottom 21, Red Bottom 10, White Half Dot
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 51 x 27 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 10.6 x 8.7 inch
$5,280
Shallow deepness
Helina Menning
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,762
Green Pulses Numero 3
Edouard Tournier
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,583
Combate entre Kirk y Spock
Juan González Iglesias
Painting - 89.6 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.3 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$3,762
I love this mess
Alison Aplin Artist
Painting - 76 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,226
Loppy the lopsided vase
Alison Aplin Artist
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,673
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!