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Onde vibratoire blanche 2
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 18 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$268
Croquis de Ned Flanders
Matt Groening
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$559
Head of a woman
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$559
Portrait with gardenia
Elena Podmarkova
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$2,750
Waterfall on the Belous
Victor Onyshchenko
Painting - 55 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,733
Light painting
Jan Brunclík
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,286
Surimpression du Touareg
Françoise Spiekermeier
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$805
Eggs and Oranges With Vase
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$12,074
The flow of the love
Michaela Skuhrava
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$6,558
Oranges in a Bowl
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 27.5 x 37.5 x 1 cm Painting - 10.8 x 14.8 x 0.4 inch
$8,497
Eggs and Newspaper
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 35 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$8,050
Bâches bleues devant la Salute
Célestin Messaggio
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,714
Vision blanche
Yves Bordes Lapeyre
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$995
3 - La montée de Persephone
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$894
2 - Les âges de la vie - Naguère
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$894
2- Le rapt de Persephone
Mita Vostok
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$894
Jackson Pollock (v3) splash 400% & 100%
Bearbrick
Design - 28 x 10 x 10 cm Design - 11 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$514
Descubrir Arena 0.2
Esther Argelich
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,292
Forest magic (snowdrop) - limited edition of 21
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$625
Tribal fish !!!
SP
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$123
Warhol mania
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$14,534
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,683 $2,227
Black panther Blanc ivoire alpha - statue résine pop art street art
DED2008
Sculpture - 16 x 50 x 9 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 19.7 x 3.5 inch
$894
Folding in Motion 10
Simcha Even-Chen
Sculpture - 16 x 30 x 11 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 11.8 x 4.3 inch
$3,354
Water beyond water 14
Fabrice Constant
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$1,230
Water beyond water 13
Fabrice Constant
Photography - 50 x 75 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 inch
$1,006
First spring, morningwind
J. Paudert
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,907
Clem distance
Cahuate Milk
Photography - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,029
Lara distance
Cahuate Milk
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,029
Usurpation d'identité
Franca Ravet
Painting - 125 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 49.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,584
Les zebres rouges red zebras
SLH Artiste
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,348
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!