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![Painting, Miss tic BomB, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1796733_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ciudad supuesta XV, Renato Manzoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1774473_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mon Gang, Pooshy Lebaron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1766850_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Primeras modulaciones 2, Julio Le Parc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744098_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hiroshima, Mon Amour, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733928_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heil, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733925_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beograd, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733919_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Roma 2, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733910_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Andalusien, Peter Hofmann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1733862_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled 29, Albert Ràfols-Casamada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/16966_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Parisian-Night-Tuileries-Mary Go Round n°6, Pascal Therme](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1696209_1_grid.jpg)
Parisian-Night-Tuileries-Mary Go Round n°6
Pascal Therme
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$839
![Painting, Work, Katalin Soós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1595598_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chaos 70, Lahcen Khedim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1555914_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Dialogo nello spazio, Walter Valentini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524924_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Segni dal cielo 6, Walter Valentini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524441_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Segni dal cielo 7, Walter Valentini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524429_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Gravity, cross, Krasimira Stikar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1445097_1_grid.jpg)
Gravity, cross
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$3,132
![Painting, Famous, Shake](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1433976_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Balance of opposites, Krasimira Stikar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1410399_1_grid.jpg)
Balance of opposites
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$2,684
![Painting, La piscine et le toit, Didier Colomès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1409097_1_grid.jpg)
La piscine et le toit
Didier Colomès
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Factory 25, Ramon Poch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1360296_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le Panier en Zinc, Laurence Gasior](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1312341_1_grid.jpg)
Le Panier en Zinc
Laurence Gasior
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,488
![Photography, La capture - série oiseaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292709_1_grid.jpg)
La capture - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$805
![Photography, Oiseau d'or - série oiseaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292679_1_grid.jpg)
Oiseau d'or - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 30 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$643
![Photography, Le chasseur - série oiseaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292670_1_grid.jpg)
Le chasseur - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$805
![Painting, No.462, Raphael Durans](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1268139_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition noir et blanc 8, Albert Ràfols-Casamada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1250565_1_grid.jpg)
Composition noir et blanc 8
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 38.5 x 57 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.2 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$447
![Print, Composition noir et blanc 7, Albert Ràfols-Casamada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1250553_1_grid.jpg)
Composition noir et blanc 7
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 57 x 38.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.4 x 15.2 x 0 inch
$447
![Photography, Mediterranean Village, Clemente Vergara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1222686_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Untitled (3). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171638_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (3). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
![Photography, Untitled (4). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171635_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (4). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
![Photography, Untitled (6). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171626_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (6). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
![Photography, Untitled. From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171617_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled. From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
![Photography, Untitled (10). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms, Eliška Bartek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171611_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (10). From series: Secret Photography - Cliché Verre and Photograms
Eliška Bartek
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,572
![Painting, Drawings for invisible hands #7, Sooyeon Hong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1170120_1_grid.jpg)
Drawings for invisible hands #7
Sooyeon Hong
Painting - 78.7 x 54.4 cm Painting - 31 x 21.4 inch
$3,300
![Painting, Drawings for invisible hands #6, Sooyeon Hong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1170117_1_grid.jpg)
Drawings for invisible hands #6
Sooyeon Hong
Painting - 78.7 x 54.6 cm Painting - 31 x 21.5 inch
$3,300
![Print, Proof 2, Kamen Startchev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052043_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Daylight 5, Kamen Startchev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1051752_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 1, Paulo Canilhas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1017093_1_grid.jpg)
Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 1
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 93 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
$2,908
![Photography, Mirage Ligérien, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/734748_1_grid.jpg)
Mirage Ligérien
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$391
![Photography, Douce, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/718353_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Quiétude II, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702495_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Quiétude I, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702489_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Plume du Poëte, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702165_1_grid.jpg)
Plume du Poëte
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$336
![Photography, Les piplettes, Dominique Jullien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/702156_1_grid.jpg)
Les piplettes
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$336
![Painting, White Series n3, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177789_1_grid.jpg)
White Series n3
Rosario Briones
Painting - 159.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 62.9 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
![Painting, White Series n2, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177180_1_grid.jpg)
White Series n2
Rosario Briones
Painting - 159.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 62.9 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
![Painting, Natural Flow Series n9, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177176_1_grid.jpg)
Natural Flow Series n9
Rosario Briones
Painting - 137.9 x 108 x 0.3 cm Painting - 54.3 x 42.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,800
![Painting, Natural Flow Series n5, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177174_1_grid.jpg)
Natural Flow Series n5
Rosario Briones
Painting - 160 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 63 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
![Painting, Liquid Life Series n6, Rosario Briones](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175541_1_grid.jpg)
Liquid Life Series n6
Rosario Briones
Painting - 211.8 x 99.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 83.4 x 39.3 x 0.1 inch
$4,300
![Painting, Heart on white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172780_1_grid.jpg)
Heart on white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
![Painting, Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172779_1_grid.jpg)
Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
![Photography, Duke And Duchess of Cambridge Call Time, Chris Jackson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168924_1_grid.jpg)
Duke And Duchess of Cambridge Call Time
Chris Jackson
Photography - 51 x 76 x 0.001 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,230
![Design, Maeduep: An aubergine. Candle sconce / Backflow Incense, WKND Lab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160056_1_grid.jpg)
Maeduep: An aubergine. Candle sconce / Backflow Incense
WKND Lab
Design - 102.9 x 43.9 x 18.8 cm Design - 40.5 x 17.3 x 7.4 inch
$1,760
![Design, Maeduep; A Cicada. Candle sconce / Backflow Incense Burner, WKND Lab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159260_1_grid.jpg)
Maeduep; A Cicada. Candle sconce / Backflow Incense Burner
WKND Lab
Design - 105.9 x 34.8 x 18.8 cm Design - 41.7 x 13.7 x 7.4 inch
$1,760
![Fine Art Drawings, Dreary School Day, Christian Frederiksen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158327_1_grid.jpg)
Dreary School Day
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 3.9 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$783
![Fine Art Drawings, Wrath, Notseig](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156718_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Summer Rain, Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152133_1_grid.jpg)
Summer Rain
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 47 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,107
![Print, Les Noyers de l’Altenburg, Vladimir Velickovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151151_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les Noyers de l’Altenburg, Vladimir Velickovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151146_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les Noyers de l’Altenburg, Vladimir Velickovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151132_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "My General", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136703_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "My General"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,796
![Photography, New-York, Romain Reveau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127283_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Vanitas, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126896_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A tempest, Joseph Adolphe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120130_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A petition, Joseph Adolphe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120124_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A longing no. 17, Joseph Adolphe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120115_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Young Chanoir, Chanoir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2027094_1_grid.jpg)
Young Chanoir
Chanoir
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 27.9 x 0.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 11 x 0.25 inch
$3,100
![Painting, Marlow. Buckinghamshire, Simon Kozhin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1986462_1_grid.jpg)
Marlow. Buckinghamshire
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Carré plongeant, Marion Cadet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1984299_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Upstairs, Emilie Mori](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979724_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Vintage folding chair Ninfea, Gio Ponti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1942827_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Keith Haring - Untitled, Keith Haring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1906263_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Abstract Composition, Antonio Sanfilippo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1903320_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract Composition
Antonio Sanfilippo
Print - 50 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$336
![Painting, Traders, Nicholas Kriefall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1859034_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cherry blossoms, Darlene Watson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858164_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Composition _ Droving love in white, Tadas Zaicikas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842396_1_grid.jpg)
Composition _ Droving love in white
Tadas Zaicikas
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 4.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.8 inch
$19,872
![Painting, Serpentine, Nicholas Kriefall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842258_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Like a butterfly, Kevin Brewerton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1831545_1_grid.jpg)
Like a butterfly
Kevin Brewerton
Painting - 149.9 x 276.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 59 x 109 x 1 inch
$9,500
![Sculpture, Sweet Dreams, John Clement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794570_1_grid.jpg)
Sweet Dreams
John Clement
Sculpture - 29.2 x 29.2 x 1.3 cm Sculpture - 11.5 x 11.5 x 0.5 inch
$3,500
![Sculpture, Slip, John Clement](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794567_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Floral Constellation, Michael K. Yamaoka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1744794_1_grid.jpg)
Floral Constellation
Michael K. Yamaoka
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$5,033
![Fine Art Drawings, The street, Luigi Bompard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1689951_1_grid.jpg)
The street
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$626
![Fine Art Drawings, Reading letter, Luigi Bompard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1689933_1_grid.jpg)
Reading letter
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$671
![Painting, Pommiers en fleurs, André Lac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1658880_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Zirkulationszeit: Kopf H.B. , Joseph Beuys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/16074_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, La famille heureuse... "Bonheur" [version : blanche] (Histoire de famille 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1547715_1_grid.jpg)
La famille heureuse... "Bonheur" [version : blanche] (Histoire de famille 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 34 x 30 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 11.8 x 3.1 inch
$4,698
![Sculpture, Jamais deux sans trois... "Harmonie" [ version : blanche ] (Série : Histoire de famille 2021), Olivier Messas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1547709_1_grid.jpg)
Jamais deux sans trois... "Harmonie" [ version : blanche ] (Série : Histoire de famille 2021)
Olivier Messas
Sculpture - 34 x 20 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 7.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,964
![Painting, Cenizas y diamantes XXIII, Cecilia Méndez Casariego](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1540272_1_grid.jpg)
Cenizas y diamantes XXIII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
![Painting, Fields of France, ERA Artistry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1536822_1_grid.jpg)
Fields of France
ERA Artistry
Painting - 44.5 x 54.5 x 3 cm Painting - 17.5 x 21.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,467
![Painting, Eclisse, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516761_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La Solitude, Trichet Jacques](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488855_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15, Paola Dávila](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482882_1_grid.jpg)
27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15
Paola Dávila
Photography - 58.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23 x 44 x 0.1 inch
$3,600
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!