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El túnel
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,884
Sans Titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2910
Oscar Dominguez
Print - 32 x 46.5 cm Print - 12.6 x 18.3 inch
$10,799
Casa
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$85
Une petite pépite d'or !
Noël Granger
Design - 20 x 9 x 9 cm Design - 7.9 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$108 $103
On the metaphysics of the homo faber
Miguel Villarino
Print - 75 x 88 cm Print - 29.5 x 34.6 inch
$500
Chaotic dance
Lia Chechelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,050
Nu 28
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$909
Composición en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
Composición en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 75 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
De là- haut
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 72 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.8 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$671
Le petit chef d'orchestre
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$966
Le désenchantement
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 2 inch
$9,094
Monochrome Bougainvillea
Irena Tone
Painting - 24 x 19 x 0.1 cm Painting - 9.4 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$222 $200
Untitled
Agustín Español Viñas
Painting - 50.5 x 70.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.9 x 27.8 x 0 inch
$1,933
Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$410
I choose peace 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,500
Sable d'enfant
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 50 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,751 $3,376
Horizon Carbone (7)
Christophe Ruiz
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,023
The first white snow
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$909
Ochestrale mecanique
Muriel Charbonnier
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,336
Untitled, 332_0476
Jurek Wajdowicz
Photography - 55.8 x 39.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 22 x 15.5 x 0 inch
$1,602
Beyond the Horizon I
Anna Hausova
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,040
Abstract R 2419
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 140 x 200 x 0.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$3,604 $2,523
Incision III
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,364 $1,023
Incision II
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,364 $1,023
Scarification II
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,705 $1,279
Scarification I
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,705 $1,279
Incision I
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,705 $1,279
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,694
Abstract Spring Awakening
Vlas Ayvazyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$600
Dans L'Intimité d'une Planète
Laurence Gallien
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$1,819
L'Astre qui Sommeille
Laurence Gallien
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,160
Sin título (Untitled)
Ana Steinnekker
Fine Art Drawings - 130 x 130 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0 inch
$1,705
Dieppe Series 2.0 / L
Dorine van der Ploeg
Painting - 20 x 15 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
$512
First Day, First Dead
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
$568
First Couple, First Moon
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
$682
Fantasia
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$1,751
Transformation - Pixi kk 62 2a-3-02 x
Hein Gravenhorst
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,591
Transformation - Pixi kk 62 2a-3-01 x
Hein Gravenhorst
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,591
Behind the mask
Grégoire Devin
Painting - 213.4 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 84 x 84 x 2 inch
$20,400
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!