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Poolside Ladies
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,478
Lingering in mid air
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 56 x 76 x 3 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,638
Filtered amber light
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 83 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 32.7 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$1,963
Seven mists descending
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 76 x 56 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 1.2 inch
$1,963
Moon rising Midsummer
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 78 x 67 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 26.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,963
Flights of Fancy2
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1.5 inch
$4,500
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
Les règles de la cohabitation sociale.
Noah Borger
Painting - 50 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$337
Série les Krégins - Sculpture coquillage Raku
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 13 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$841
Série les Krégins - Sculpture coquillage Raku
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 21 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
$841
Call me Bruce (Like This)
Mary Lottridge
Painting - 91 x 91 x 4 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,722
It’s Not So Black and White
Laura Harris
Painting - 91 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$4,830 $4,106
Fragment Carbone (6)
Christophe Ruiz
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
La pause
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,167
L'écoute
Éric Dabancourt
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,167
Untitled. From the Cartographies series
Ana Seggiaro
Painting - 94 x 132.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 37 x 52.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
Pays #184
Philippe Bréson
Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10.6 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,010
Glitch #02. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 18.8 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm Design - 7.4 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$700
Glitch #01. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 26.9 x 9.9 x 9.9 cm Design - 10.6 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$800
3D White abstract from the series White reflection modern large painting textured, sculpture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$4,488
3D White abstract from the series White reflection modern large painting textured, sculpture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,488
3D White abstract from the series White reflection modern large painting textured, sculpture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,488
3D White abstract from the series White reflection modern large painting textured, sculpture
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,927
Lumière du matin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,122
Street in Santorini
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Heart in white- Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,244
Cage / Sans titre
Meteo Meteo
Painting - 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 33.1 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$729 $583
The Split
Korede Solaja
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 49 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,507
Autum birch trees
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 72 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,301
Moon night cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 31 x 39 x 3 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,245
Two Black Cats on the Sofa - Painting with Mona Lisa
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,244
New Hat - Narrative painting with Mona Lisa
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,244
Porsche 911 930 Turbo
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,784
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!