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Pink shoes and glasses of the eccentric
Kraiwit Phothikul
Painting - 120 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,349
Fields of France
ERA Artistry
Painting - 44.5 x 54.5 x 3 cm Painting - 17.5 x 21.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,460
C'est qui le patron
Sandra Paris
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$200
Barques de Pécheurs catalans
André Lac
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 52 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
$714
Portrait 2
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$759
The Flight of David
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$759
Scattered Floes
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$2,900
Between The Light - Neon Lemon V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$11,121
Between The Light - Titanium on Viridian V1 Edit
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$11,121
Casper the Ghost x PopArt x Obey x White
Koen Betjes
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$501
Sur la banquise - Ourse polaire
Véronique Laffaille
Sculpture - 24.5 x 50 x 20 cm Sculpture - 9.6 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
$4,326
Neocubistic Study II
Alexander Valchev
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$357
Je lève les yeux au ciel
Six four two
Print - 80 x 80 x 0.5 cm Print - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,005
Seen from above
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,365
Unexpected fish
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,681
Sea of thieve
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,703
Buste de Minotaure
Fabien Hemard
Painting - 130 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$4,130
The space between - Magenta V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 150 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$8,505
Laid Bare – Nude + Gold #10
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,505
Urban Patterns - 5-panels
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 165.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 65 x 1 inch
$5,500
Blurry minds #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,861
Selfportrait 16
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,679
Afrobeat
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 200 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,349
Corps à prendre...
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 200 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,349
Soledad del frontera
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$2,438
Rhapsodies of Praise I
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$4,064
CTSS
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$781 $547
Aprop dels teus silencis
Joanpere Massana
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$3,740
Don't be afraid of the sirens' calls!
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$212
Golden light
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 121.9 x 139.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 55 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
Soft morning
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$212
Girl in the age of the veil,
Edward Shahda
Painting - 162 x 130 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 inch
$14,800
Aiguilles Ansabère
Aurélien Desbois
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$558
The power of love 1
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$642
Peau de Mur 15
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,639
Peau de Mur 14
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 130 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,639
Fil et aiguille
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$603
Plume et encrier
Pierre Boillon
Photography - 60 x 42 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$603
Apple tree in the snow
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$4,019
If Anyone Would like To jump on The Page
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 23 x 31 cm Painting - 9.1 x 12.2 inch
$447
Summer Rain
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 47 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,105
Appareil photo Minolta
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 9.5 x 17 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 3.7 x 6.7 x 4.9 inch
$2,009
Flower totem print (black)
Robert Jaso
Photography - 26 x 26 x 3 cm Photography - 10.2 x 10.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,116
Trilogie - Huitres et coquillages de mer
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,512
Phare sous la tempête - Paysage marin figuratif
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 130 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$4,521
Arbre sous la neige
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
$737
White (Graciosa)
Carlos Estrela
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,371
Reflets du matin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 3 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 1.2 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$670
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!