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![Photography, Kilian, Alexis Berg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/174247_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, RBA 209216, Yigit Yazici](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1725237_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contre-jour, Claudine Tamborini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1654893_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le QG de carton., Foucaud Stéphane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1615782_1_grid.jpg)
Le QG de carton.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 101.5 x 87 x 4 cm Painting - 40 x 34.3 x 1.6 inch
$1,775
![Painting, Squat de pêche à Ducos., Foucaud Stéphane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1615146_1_grid.jpg)
Squat de pêche à Ducos.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 105 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,962
![Sculpture, Fibonacci Fragment IV, Desa Vlahutin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572852_1_grid.jpg)
Fibonacci Fragment IV
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 54 x 75 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 29.5 x 3.9 inch
$7,951
![Sculpture, Fibonacci Fragment VII, Desa Vlahutin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572843_1_grid.jpg)
Fibonacci Fragment VII
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 31 x 82 x 26 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 32.3 x 10.2 inch
$9,682
![Sculpture, Fibonacci Fragment V, Desa Vlahutin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572837_1_grid.jpg)
Fibonacci Fragment V
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 78 x 75 x 19 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 29.5 x 7.5 inch
$9,757
![Sculpture, Fibonacci Fragment II, Desa Vlahutin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572834_1_grid.jpg)
Fibonacci Fragment II
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 101 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$9,499
![Sculpture, Fibonacci Fragment I, Desa Vlahutin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1572828_1_grid.jpg)
Fibonacci Fragment I
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 78 x 72 x 31 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 28.3 x 12.2 inch
$9,286
![Sculpture, White Top 40, Red Bottom 12, Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504431_1_grid.jpg)
White Top 40, Red Bottom 12
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 63 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
$5,751
![Painting, Melissa, Monica](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482270_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Singerie oisive, Monkeybird](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1469520_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Imaginativ View III, Carita Schmidt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1466790_1_grid.jpg)
Imaginativ View III
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,751
![Painting, Imaginativ View II, Carita Schmidt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1466787_1_grid.jpg)
Imaginativ View II
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,751
![Painting, Imaginativ View I, Carita Schmidt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1466517_1_grid.jpg)
Imaginativ View I
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,751
![Painting, Autumn Tree 3, Max Yaskin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1461408_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Creation 5, The Tree of life, Liubov Kolbina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1461261_1_grid.jpg)
Creation 5, The Tree of life
Liubov Kolbina
Painting - 119 x 119 x 4 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.9 x 1.6 inch
$11,491
![Painting, Midnight Mystics, Corinne Lisa Costello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457934_1_grid.jpg)
Midnight Mystics
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,630
![Painting, Poetica, Corinne Lisa Costello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457925_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mystical Marriage #2, Corinne Lisa Costello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457919_1_grid.jpg)
Mystical Marriage #2
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,630
![Painting, Mystical Marriage #1, Corinne Lisa Costello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457901_1_grid.jpg)
Mystical Marriage #1
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,630
![Painting, Enigma, Corinne Lisa Costello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457892_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El encanto de un foxterrier disecado, Iñigo Navarro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449528_1_grid.jpg)
El encanto de un foxterrier disecado
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
![Painting, Et le volcan s'endort, Muriel Paul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444212_1_grid.jpg)
Et le volcan s'endort
Muriel Paul
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,233
![Painting, Carnaval des animaux, Patrick Moya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1368120_1_grid.jpg)
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,682
![Painting, Two Circles, Gudmundur Sigurdsson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320705_1_grid.jpg)
Two Circles
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 101.5 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 40 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$11,491
![Painting, The Resque, Gudmundur Sigurdsson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320696_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Terminal, Noam Aharon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320585_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Takeoff, Noam Aharon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320579_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 3,212 - 5,211, Laurence Billmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1302432_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Elimination, Verena C. Kloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1269993_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mundus, Lucio Forte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Grande Lutte Chinoise 1, François Garros](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/933474_1_grid.jpg)
Grande Lutte Chinoise 1
François Garros
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
$5,157
![Sculpture, Taureau, Lutfi Romhein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/904206_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Michelin China - Blue Dragon, Li Lihong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/773808_1_grid.jpg)
Michelin China - Blue Dragon
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 28.5 x 27 x 24 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 10.6 x 9.4 inch
$5,045
![Photography, Codes esthétiques 2380, Konstantin Kornakov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703383_1_grid.jpg)
Codes esthétiques 2380
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
$785
![Photography, Codes esthétiques 1127, Konstantin Kornakov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703380_1_grid.jpg)
Codes esthétiques 1127
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
$785
![Photography, Marquage 8912, Konstantin Kornakov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703365_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Marquage 1811, Konstantin Kornakov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/703362_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Artifact, Simeon Panayotov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/685344_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Wait for me En, Sophie Calle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/227794_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hollow White, Daniel Arsham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179788_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chambre avec vue, Diane Bellier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179350_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape, Marilina Marchica](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170512_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Geometrical V, Luis Miguel Aparisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168084_1_grid.jpg)
Geometrical V
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 149.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$2,560
![Painting, The late night talking 3, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168023_1_grid.jpg)
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,810
![Print, Stormtrooper Vandalized Hemlet EA, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165886_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, In the Head, Bows](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161264_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, At Home papier déchiré 300 grammes, Bows](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161263_1_grid.jpg)
At Home papier déchiré 300 grammes
Bows
Painting - 74 x 57 x 5 cm Painting - 29.1 x 22.4 x 2 inch
$1,682
![Fine Art Drawings, Montre molle, Ray Smith](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152841_1_grid.jpg)
Montre molle
Ray Smith
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$1,233
![Sculpture, Renversements 733, Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152221_1_grid.jpg)
Renversements 733
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,345
![Sculpture, Renversements 734, Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152217_1_grid.jpg)
Renversements 734
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,345
![Fine Art Drawings, Retrato 2, Juan Sebastian Barbera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151520_1_grid.jpg)
Retrato 2
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
$1,400
![Painting, Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (5), Zianko Vasili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150947_1_grid.jpg)
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (5)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,184
![Painting, Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (4), Zianko Vasili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150946_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (2), Zianko Vasili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150904_1_grid.jpg)
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (2)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,184
![Painting, Les lions sont des rois, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148320_1_grid.jpg)
Les lions sont des rois
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,709
![Sculpture, Giant Chewbacca Chanel N.5, Norman Gekko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147267_1_grid.jpg)
Giant Chewbacca Chanel N.5
Norman Gekko
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 5.9 inch
$1,345
![Painting, Stormtrooper, welcome to the dark side, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087658_1_grid.jpg)
Stormtrooper, welcome to the dark side
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,803
![Painting, Blossom burst, Gregg Simpson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2059602_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dressing for dance, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051214_1_grid.jpg)
Dressing for dance
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$817
![Painting, Magic ice 5, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051001_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Audrey Hepburn loves Andy Warhol, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2046561_1_grid.jpg)
Audrey Hepburn loves Andy Warhol
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,588
![Painting, Pikachu is my hero, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979619_1_grid.jpg)
Pikachu is my hero
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,803
![Painting, The abbey, Marco Araldi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979166_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Doggy POP, Pink version, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1969800_1_grid.jpg)
Doggy POP, Pink version
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,588
![Print, Abaqa Khan, Eduardo Arroyo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1956438_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, An Island in the air, Urs Lüthi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938069_1_grid.jpg)
An Island in the air
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 20 x 47 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
$561
![Sculpture, Spectateur, Egor Plotnikov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1929942_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Canvas 179, Frantisek Florian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1875672_1_grid.jpg)
Canvas 179
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 147.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 58.2 x 1.5 inch
$2,399
![Painting, Canvas 185, Frantisek Florian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1859046_1_grid.jpg)
Canvas 185
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 117.9 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 46.4 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,577
![Painting, Canvas 186, Frantisek Florian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858449_1_grid.jpg)
Canvas 186
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 110 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,307
![Painting, A long long night, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852350_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flickering garden 2, Nestor Toro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818138_1_grid.jpg)
Flickering garden 2
Nestor Toro
Painting - 71.1 x 55.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 28 x 22 x 0.7 inch
$2,180
![Fine Art Drawings, Verlaine, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1807227_1_grid.jpg)
Verlaine
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
$17,938
![Fine Art Drawings, Hugo, Ernest Pignon-Ernest](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1807218_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Chris Stein's nightmare - Dirty tag, Pure Evil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798179_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Caretas, Agustina Barilá Aloi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1791975_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Rondo, Toruz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758840_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled SP1600, Sandra Pelser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1737075_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Neapel strategie, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733907_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The beautiful midsummer night's dream, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733787_1_grid.jpg)
The beautiful midsummer night's dream
Peter Hofmann
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 70.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 27.8 x 0 inch
$2,522
![Painting, Gente en la niebla, Débora Sánchez Viqueira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1732272_1_grid.jpg)
Gente en la niebla
Débora Sánchez Viqueira
Painting - 137 x 274 x 3 cm Painting - 53.9 x 107.9 x 1.2 inch
$14,021
![Painting, Anonimo Pank, Dimitris Pavlopoulos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1688451_1_grid.jpg)
Anonimo Pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 115 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,242
![Painting, Roundabout, Kerry Horne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678554_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vintage 2 CV, Franck Savoye (Francky)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1661124_1_grid.jpg)
Vintage 2 CV
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,009
![Painting, Scrugge Daddy, ODart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1655055_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mountains, Miquel Angel Benejam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1635546_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mountains, Miquel Angel Benejam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1635534_1_grid.jpg)
Mountains
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.8 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.1 inch
$3,251
![Painting, Mountain, Miquel Angel Benejam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1635531_1_grid.jpg)
Mountain
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.1 inch
$2,691
![Painting, Wind & Water, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628934_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Net for dreaming clouds, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628910_1_grid.jpg)
Net for dreaming clouds
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,410
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!