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Sheelagh Na Gig #2
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm Painting - 3 x 3 x 0.4 inch
€315
Still life with peaches
Aliya Abs
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,520
Incontro Musicale
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 215 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 84.6 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€19,000
Tag 6
Darryl McCray (Cornbread)
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 4.3 x 0.8 inch
€150
Musicians in Lummus Park, Miami Beach
Andy Sweet
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€1,650
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Heart(black and white)-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€2,000
Rolex Submariner Black Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€180
Blanche et Narcès
Sophie Manaches
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€750
Gestures (Stranger than Paradise)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 207 x 155 x 0.3 cm Photography - 81.5 x 61 x 0.1 inch
€26,000
GRANDIOSE SUMOCAT : WHITE DANCE AND BATTLES OF BALANCE
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 150 x 180 x 120 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 70.9 x 47.2 inch
€30,000
Over the Millennia
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
Revelation in Abstraction
Nytia Jenkins
Painting - 27.94 x 35.56 x 2 cm Painting - 11 x 14 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Dos au mur - série Street Art
Henri Mahé dit HIM
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
€2,875
Underneath It All
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
Holding back the years
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.78 inch
€1,700
Very difficult ease.
Igor Shulman
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€4,076
Golden field 210710
Don Bishop
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 1.5 inch
€4,562
Son Serra de Marina (Mallorca)
Emilio Cardona
Painting - 30 x 40 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€580
Country Silence
Nemanja Nikolic
Painting - 101.6 x 76.2 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 30 x 0.78 inch
€1,200
3 poires posant pour une nature morte
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
Pomme pomme pomme poire pomme
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
Deux chiens là-bas au loin sur le papier
Sylvie Laliberté
Print - 63.5 x 48.3 x 1.3 cm Print - 25 x 19 x 0.5 inch
€1,100
Abstract painting PH877
Radek Smach
Painting - 39.9 x 39.9 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€417
Boccacce (trittico)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 63 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 24.8 x 0.1 inch
€150
Street comfort
Paul J Bucknall
Photography - 61 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€646
Places (2)
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
€1,690
Places (1)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 22.9 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9 x 12 x 0.1 inch
€1,690
Places (underworld)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 33 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€1,690
Red Head 01, White Bottom 11, Red Dot
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 66 x 23 x 22 cm Sculpture - 26 x 9.1 x 8.7 inch
€5,338
Serie Las Piadosas
Enriqueta Aguiló
Painting - 110 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,770
De la Terre à la Lune - 05
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
Taking pictures/ Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
Reserved/Their life-Cameroon
Gilbert Ryu
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€750
From Glass to Reflections - 7
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
From Glass to Reflections - 6
Bruno Palisson
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€900
Sans Titre (Triptyque)
Ilhem Ellouze
Fine Art Drawings - 120 x 240 cm Fine Art Drawings - 47.2 x 94.5 inch
€5,300
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers 203
Zoran Music
Print - 26.5 x 23.5 cm Print - 10.4 x 9.3 inch
€3,000
Quartier de Villanova Cagliari
Serge Salis
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
€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!