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Abstract 22116
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,197 $838
Shine Your Light
Lena Bera-Pancini
Painting - 90 x 90 x 90 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 35.4 inch
$2,150
On the verge of a nervous breakdown
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$3,961
Peace, Rest in Peace
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,395
Rimbaud, Boulevard Saint-Michel
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Print - 80 x 60 cm Print - 31.5 x 23.6 inch
$1,132
The Song of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,415
Crock de toi royal - ultra white
Ninu
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 6.7 inch
$5,092
Forest convergence blue sky
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 100 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$10,592
Silent heights III
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 124 x 154 x 3 cm Painting - 48.8 x 60.6 x 1.2 inch
$9,924
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc (Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print)
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$4,176
Ondine
Eric Sanger Monteros
Photography - 60 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,961
Concave
Nicolas Sanchez
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$6,000
Impossible behaviour-11
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,811
Channel Blooming Bear
Blooming Bears
Sculpture - 50 x 33 x 23 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13 x 9.1 inch
$6,000
All blacks / Dan carter
Peggy Cannonge
Design - 60 x 32 x 18 cm Design - 23.6 x 12.6 x 7.1 inch
$962
Ondulations lumineuses
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,697
Le phare et les mystères
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,709
Maeduep. Dragonfly Wall decoration
WKND Lab
Design - 160 x 49.8 x 39.9 cm Design - 63 x 19.6 x 15.7 inch
$6,780
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 22 x 57 x 1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,169
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,716
Sans titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 30 x 26 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,942
Hommage à Picasso et à Fernand Léger (noir et blanc)
Erró
Print - 57 x 81 x 1 cm Print - 22.4 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,018
Etel - série Paysage de bord de mer de Bretagne
Jacqueline Clermont
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$385
Misty Cathedral
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,487
L'esprit incisif
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,074
Features of simultaneous interpreting
Tanya Grinevich
Painting - 254 x 254 x 5.1 cm Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 inch
$6,111
Antique games.. A look through time 2
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,584
Entre ombres et lumières
Steso Primo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$3,055
Sous le soleil exactement/15
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 50 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$905
What Nobody Wants to Know
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$6,790
The colors of happiness
Emily Starck
Painting - 105 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,169
A new world
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 62 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$464
The people of the desert
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
Wild trip
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
The viking
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
Art in nature
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
The balloons
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
Wonderful cruise
Thierry Virton
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$464
The adventures of the desert
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 80 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$500
Streets of Northern City
Mariusz Makula
Painting - 80 x 100.1 x 4.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$500
Through the Falls
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
The Castelloland Installation. 34 digital photographs on brilliant paper,
Paloma Castello
Photography - 43.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
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!