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Backstage XIV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 70 x 140 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,094
Untitled 34 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,500
Untitled 6 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 180 x 250 x 0.1 cm Photography - 70.9 x 98.4 x 0 inch
$5,000
Untitled 5 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 170 x 255 x 0.1 cm Photography - 66.9 x 100.4 x 0 inch
$5,000
Untitled 33 from the series of INtheVISIBLE
Arslan Sükan
Photography - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,500
Serenity on the Horizon
Michael Milkin
Painting - 61.5 x 91.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24.2 x 36 x 1 inch
$5,800
The Arms of Winter
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 140 x 110 x 6 cm Painting - 55.1 x 43.3 x 2.4 inch
$7,245
Fugue néoplasticiste
Julio Pacheco-Rivas
Painting - 95 x 66 x 1 cm Painting - 37.4 x 26 x 0.4 inch
$5,432
Un dimanche à Paris
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,811
Composition à la danseuse
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,811
Ressemblance
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$338
Fragon
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$338
Odessa
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 27 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$509
Lost while hatching #2
Fransie Malherbe Frandsen
Painting - 49 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,832
Just be yourself
Amandine André
Photography - 16.5 x 22.5 x 1 cm Photography - 6.5 x 8.9 x 0.4 inch
$113
Wutun Temple in Snow
Shine Huang
Photography - 50.8 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,400
Make me perfect Série Urban Stratum
Brice Mounier
Sculpture - 140 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$3,621
L’Arlequin et le Sacré-Cœur
Claude Vénard
Painting - 130 x 162 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 inch
$45,265
Les Décomposés IIc - 007
Stéphane Pontié
Painting - 77 x 77 x 1.5 cm Painting - 30.3 x 30.3 x 0.6 inch
$3,884
Ancient Page Angel
Shine Huang
Photography - 81.3 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
Charm
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 109 x 158 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 42.9 x 62.2 x 0.8 inch
$10,185
Urban Coordinates : 939 Nights in Tokyo’s Dreamscape
Hiro Ando
Painting - 108 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$7,921
SUPREME ROBOTCAT : ALABASTER CYBERNETIC MAESTRO
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 100 x 60 x 50 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 23.6 x 19.7 inch
$20,369
Série: Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$2,829
Pandason’s White : A Lilliputian Ballet of Chromatic Marvels
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 130 x 95 x 95 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 37.4 x 37.4 inch
$32,817
Window on the sea - Positano painting
Gio Sannino
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$260
Grosses vagues n°8 - Paysage marin et le tumulte de la mer
Marie-Joëlle Cédat
Painting - 20 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$538
Penvins n°3 - Paysage marin de la Presqu'île de Rhuys
Marie-Joëlle Cédat
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$453
Les pieds dans l'eau
Denis Morel
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$498
Poetry of nature, Ref. 1509
Nasser Azizi
Painting - 140 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$11,316
Poetry of nature, Ref. 1508
Nasser Azizi
Painting - 170 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$9,053
Paysage aux rochers mauves - Série Les femmes et la mer
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$198
Les Dames de la côte - Série Les femmes et la mer
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$198
Les dames de la côte - Série Les femmes et la mer
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$198
Femme au chapeau blanc - Série Les femmes et la mer
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$198
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!