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Amour
Virginia Benedicto
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,125 $1,891
Ohne Titel / without title
Gerd Kanz
Sculpture - 20 x 20 x 4 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 7.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,007
Flowers & bees
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,132 $2,787
Miss Daisy
Virginia Benedicto
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,132 $2,787
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,684 $2,228
Le sourire du Joker
Philippe Viejo
Painting - 90 x 90 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$4,026 $3,422
Air Jordan 1
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 17 x 30 x 12 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 11.8 x 4.7 inch
$2,684 $2,228
Apparente dualismo
Angioletta De Nitto
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$6,040
Les baigneuses
Marie Deforche
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$1,622 $1,460
La mer et moi
Marie Deforche
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,174 $1,057
F0648 - The warrior
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,013 $1,409
F0496 - The doll
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,013 $1,409
Hotel Chelsea, New York. Room 229
Victoria Cohen
Photography - 50.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,300
Abstraction litteraire
Sophie Dumont
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
AntiK papier bulle
Christophe Ruiz
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
Bomb Surprise
Frank E Hollywood
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,836
Je vous raconte une histoire 4
Wanrong Song
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,684
Je vous raconte une histoire 3
Wanrong Song
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,684
Je vous raconte une histoire 2
Wanrong Song
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,684
Safari in Budapest
Griselda Alcazar
Painting - 88 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 34.6 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,089
Je vous raconte une histoire 1
Wanrong Song
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,684
No43 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 152 x 152 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$4,586
Blanc et Pierre
Jérémy Ferreira
Painting - 150 x 100 x 6 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 2.4 inch
$5,033
Peinture 01-2024-08
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
Peinture D1-2024-07
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$1,342
Pacific Blue
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,900
Pacific Glow
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,900
Through pink glasses
Nikolai Angelov-Gary
Painting - 31 x 31 x 2 cm Painting - 12.2 x 12.2 x 0.8 inch
$503
White Dancer
Ulrich Trüssel
Photography - 93 x 93 x 3 cm Photography - 36.6 x 36.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,355
Rose épanouie
Françoise De Beaucé
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$5,480 $4,932
Tingari cycle (RT03/0611BPG)
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 1.9 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.75 inch
$12,500
Heartfelt Blooming Bear
Blooming Bears
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 12 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch
$3,750
Ring-shin Gold
Teruri Yamawaki
Sculpture - 45 x 34 x 30 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.4 x 11.8 inch
$3,517
Poetry of nature, Ref. 1508
Nasser Azizi
Painting - 170 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,948
Wave touch of gold
Ans Pullens
Sculpture - 95 x 75 x 12 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 29.5 x 4.7 inch
$6,653
3 figures, 2 umbrellas
Steven Boksenbaum
Painting - 25.4 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm Painting - 10 x 8 x 0.6 inch
$420
Afro blue - Série Street-art
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$224
Mujer con guitarra
Francisca Morales Alliende
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,815
Portrait of a Boy
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$425
Movimientos geometricos 3
Benbela Abounassif
Sculpture - 48 x 48 x 4 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 18.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,592
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,188
Bateau à sec sur le lac Baïkal
Christophe Gibourg
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$839
El túnel
Jordi Valls Capell
Photography - 100 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,741
Suite Rimbaud 2
Gabor Breznay
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$503
La travesía del funámbulo
Concha García
Sculpture - 12 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,684
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!