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Plan F - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$555
Imbriqués - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$555
Crucem portare
Jeff Robb
Photography - 115 x 115 x 2 cm Photography - 45.3 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$21,089
Parrot bliss
Rinalds Vanadzins
Painting - 89.9 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,650
Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides podaliricus)
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$344
Rolex Submariner Black Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$200
Phénomènes, Untitled (volcanic eruption #2)
Marina Gadonneix
Photography - 29 x 22.4 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.1 inch
$155
Artistic tooth - Black Leg
Hilbertas Jatkevicius
Sculpture - 18.5 x 10.4 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 4.1 x 3.7 inch
$289
La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,604
Racines
Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$766
To our birth place
Jérôme Dupré la Tour
Photography - 220 x 300 cm Photography - 86.6 x 118.1 inch
$1,998
Fife Regatta 2201
Götz Göppert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$749
Sculpture lumineuse B 104
Amélie Baudin
Design - 52 x 11 x 11 cm Design - 20.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$2,775
Brume sur la seine
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,329
Fanfare Irakienne
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$999
Vallée du Jabron
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,110
Burkina 1998 Coupe d'Afrique des Nations
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,665
Doucement elles se réveillent
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$388
Mon amie la brume
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$388
Pêcheur de brumes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$388
Hotel Mermaid Club #4
Chris Rhodes
Photography - 10 x 8 x 0.2 cm Photography - 3.9 x 3.1 x 0.1 inch
$166
Grand carré long 84
Tehos
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$387
Sous-bois
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 125 x 125 x 4 cm Painting - 49.2 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
$7,215
In the moment guitar
Erik Paul
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 10.2 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 4 inch
$9,750
Daisy petals aloft
Carrie Makenna
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$2,800
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (11)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.3 x 4 inch
$3,108
Les trois ponts
Georgii Vinogradov
Photography - 20 x 38 x 0.2 cm Photography - 7.9 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$555
Nueve secuencias en horizontal
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 31 x 145 x 1 cm Print - 12.2 x 57.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,553
Estudios de Secuencias diacrónicas
Ana Pérez Pereda
Print - 150 x 60 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,506
Sagamore short bowl Tondo Doni
Mario Cioni
Design - 9 x 30 x 30 cm Design - 3.5 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$888
Urban Patterns-Village St.
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,500
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!