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Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
€732
Visions of the dreaming maiden
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 34 x 44 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 17.3 x 0.8 inch
€1,151
Playing with mother
Sergey Khachatryan
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€1,439
Colpo di sole
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Private reputation of colors XII
Eyasu Telayneh
Painting - 100 x 78 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 30.7 x 2 inch
€2,000
After performance
Karen Axikyan
Sculpture - 16 x 40 x 10 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 15.7 x 3.9 inch
€2,877
Jeune fille à la bicyclette
José Nicolas
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
€1,000
Montenegro. Prcanj
Alexander Shandor
Painting - 60 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€2,878
Massavo the Makokean
Lazarus Massavo
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 inch
€1,919
Un été outre-mer - série Les Dames de la côte
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€980
Luna tra i rami
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0 inch
€2,850
Richard Wagner
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
€3,500
Gratitudes - série silhouette de femme
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,310
ES 12 Empire du signe
Pierre-Marc de Biasi
Print - 83 x 76 x 1 cm Print - 32.7 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
€1,000
Forêt en Automne
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Village Abstrait
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
La Chaise Jaune
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
La Chaise Rose
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
La Chaise Turquoise
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
La Chaise À Bascule
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
La Chaise Bleue
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,700
Dans les champs, en fin d´après-midi.
José Saboia
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Mémoire du temps n°15
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€780
Love of the rink
Antoine Rose
Photography - 88 x 88 x 1 cm Photography - 34.6 x 34.6 x 0.4 inch
€6,300
Mémoire du temps n°55
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€590
Sans titre #2 - Série Déchirée, détruite mais libre
Sanaa Abouayoub
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,800
Banksy X Jumpman Air Jordan OW Blue/Orange
Ske
Sculpture - 37 x 37 x 6 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 14.6 x 2.4 inch
€700
Pavots - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€570
Pompons - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€570
Sarah and the angels (from children’s bible)
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 45 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,170
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
€1,800
Cloud (Planet)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
Morning Sunbathing
Alexander Levich
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
€870
Dripping SFDP11 - série Abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€570
Hiver sur le canal du Midi
André Lac
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,540
Cheval fantôme - série animaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,750
Noir vertige (Vortex 26)
Philippe Huart
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1 inch
€2,500
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!