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![Sculpture, Tableau sculpture 3, Tanc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210489_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Kami 3, Tanc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210415_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Sunny Lace Of Winter, Nikolay Dmitriev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209961_1_grid.jpg)
Sunny Lace Of Winter
Nikolay Dmitriev
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,125
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The butterfly effect
Antoine Josse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,908
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Midnight Flowers
Kirill Postovit
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,678 $973
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Mother Earth
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 45 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,118
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30cm Heart CH Tribute Black
Naor
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,488
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35cm Teddy CH Tribute, Chrome White
Naor
Sculpture - 35 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$1,309
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Morning glow- Sunrise Over the Lake, Serene Oil Artwork
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,700
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Jungle 3D - Diptyque n°02
La Robotte
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$895
![Painting, Jungle 3D - Diptyque n°01, La Robotte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206089_1_grid.jpg)
Jungle 3D - Diptyque n°01
La Robotte
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$895
![Painting, Incision III, Jean-Michel Zazzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204607_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Scarification II, Jean-Michel Zazzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204605_1_grid.jpg)
Scarification II
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Scarification I, Jean-Michel Zazzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204600_1_grid.jpg)
Scarification I
Jean-Michel Zazzi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Incision I, Jean-Michel Zazzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204598_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'homme et la mer, Isabelle Fournet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204584_1_grid.jpg)
L'homme et la mer
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,651
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Peinture 11-2023-67
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,342
![Sculpture, One Dollar Tree Bark, Karl Lagasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214196_1_grid.jpg)
One Dollar Tree Bark
Karl Lagasse
Sculpture - 45 x 19 x 0.4 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.5 x 0.2 inch
$5,033
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Coin Coin Colors
Bernard Saint-Maxent
Painting - 29 x 24 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch
$324
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Untitled, série Jardin Créole
Jean-Marc Hunt
Painting - 170 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 66.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$15,658
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Muse routine
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.6 inch
$2,237
![Painting, L'impossible rapport sexuel IV, Olivier Hache](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207464_1_grid.jpg)
L'impossible rapport sexuel IV
Olivier Hache
Painting - 116 x 81 x 5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 2 inch
$1,790
![Print, London, lithograpie originale, Tony Soulié](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191235_1_grid.jpg)
London, lithograpie originale
Tony Soulié
Print - 90 x 76 x 0.5 cm Print - 35.4 x 29.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,007
![Painting, The White Soulages (Le Soulages Blanc), Bruno Cantais](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214653_1_grid.jpg)
The White Soulages (Le Soulages Blanc)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$201 $161
![Painting, The White Soulages (Le Soulages Blanc), Bruno Cantais](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214650_1_grid.jpg)
The White Soulages (Le Soulages Blanc)
Bruno Cantais
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$201 $161
![Painting, Town in Winter, Tsisia Kiladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212486_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chapelle à Uzès - église et paysage du Gard, Claude Frégère](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206685_1_grid.jpg)
Chapelle à Uzès - église et paysage du Gard
Claude Frégère
Painting - 49 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,107
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![Painting, Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen", Peter Donkersloot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182305_1_grid.jpg)
Brigitte Bardot "Kitchen"
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 150 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$9,507
![Painting, Communion Sylvestre, Corine Lescop](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206088_1_grid.jpg)
Communion Sylvestre
Corine Lescop
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,454
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After a Long Day 4
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,250
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Snowy mountain in winter
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
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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!