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Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 33 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$1,596
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Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,489
Taj Mahal. India
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
Autorretrato. Picasso.
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,630
Inspiración
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,506
Unreal realities
Milena Mladenova
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,517
Pietà
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 125 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 49.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,618
Desert signe LIX (SG250)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$438
Madness Returns
Andrew David Grammer
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 2 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.8 inch
$1,270
Niño frente al espejo 1
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,708
Qu’a-t-on fait
Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$843
Prends-moi dans tes bras
Chantal Proulx
Painting - 61 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$825
Desert Signe XXXV (SG222)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$551
Dune de sel
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.2 inch
$955
Black & white soul I
Cecile Filipe
Painting - 44 x 34 x 2 cm Painting - 17.3 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Charlie Brown | Childhood collection
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Sculpture - 50 x 38 x 1.8 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15 x 0.7 inch
$1,204
Contemporary portrait "Inside the Painting"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$2,247
The Forest Brook - original sunny landscape, winter painting
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 25 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,045
Abstract winter III
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,809
Two visitors (Bowie series)
Carrie Graber
Painting - 49.3 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 19.4 x 28 x 1.5 inch
$4,975
Don’t drop your fears on me
Alma Pieces
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,563
Passing with a smile
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,446
La sixième montagne
Marité Bouis
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,753
Composition abstraite Ref AB0765
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 38 x 57 cm Painting - 15 x 22.4 inch
$1,348
Composition abstraite Ref AB0754
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,573
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0715
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 56 x 75 cm Painting - 22 x 29.5 inch
$1,910
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0554
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 110 x 75 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.5 inch
$2,135
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0488
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,112
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0436
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,573
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0314
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,573
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0313
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,573
By your side
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,539
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$6,967
Liquid mirror, part 2.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,348
Simple Elegance No. 1
Rya Seifert
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$1,539
Paranoia
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 30 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Paysage de chine sur des radeaux en bambou
Ellis Zbinden
Painting - 47 x 67 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$12,136 $7,281
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$236
White Snow - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,865
White Avalanche - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,989
White stripes - 3d textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,933
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!