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Through the Falls
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 18 x 0.1 inch
£1,368
Jean-Marc Barr
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£533
Abstraction #3
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,111
Abstraction #2
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
£1,244
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
£978
Over my dead body!
David Carey
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£88
Kaleidoscope 66 BW
Michael Filonow
Photography - 101.6 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 32 x 0.1 inch
£701
Misty Cathedral
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
£6,665
Forest magic (snowdrop) - limited edition of 21
Valentin Zaharia
Photography - 70 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£497
Reflections of Modernity: Abstract Impressions at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
£533
Two Penguins
Dr Sanjay Arora
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,355
Stage Dance
Dr Sanjay Arora
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,355
Chapelle perdue
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
£2,400
Centauros III
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
£4,561
Principios de la Hospitalidad I
Isabel Herrera
Photography - 38.1 x 38.1 x 1 cm Photography - 15 x 15 x 0.4 inch
£1,555
Mémorial Australien de Villers-Bretonneux
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
£142
Nouveau départ
Xavier Dumoulin
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
£3,022
Mémoire de JingDeZhen
Feng Hatat
Photography - 32 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 12.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
£533
Mémoire de JingDeZhen
Feng Hatat
Photography - 32 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 12.6 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
£533
Une nuit pluvieuse
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
£533
White Still
Zoltan Gerliczki
Photography - 80 x 64.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.5 x 0.1 inch
£1,824
Muskan, Portrait. From The Series The Third Gender of India
Jill Peters
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
£5,805
Ondulations lumineuses
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 60 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,333
Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc (Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print)
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
£3,279
Ethereal Encounters: Abstract Meditations on Mies' Pavilion in Barcelona
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
£533
Architectural Alchemy: Abstract Transformations in Mies' Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 30 x 20 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
£533
Capturing Essence: Abstract Impressions of Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
£533
Temporal Fragments: Abstract Moments in Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
£533
Minimalism Unveiled: Abstract Captures of Mies' Barcelona Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 30 x 20 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
£533
Flowers of ghetto
Rodrigo
Photography - 35.3 x 53.3 x 0.2 cm Photography - 13.9 x 21 x 0.1 inch
£1,777
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 22 x 57 x 1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
£2,488
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
£2,133
Sans titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 30 x 26 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
£2,311
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Manganaro, enfants à la paroisse protestante du village
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
£533
Kaleidoscope 34
Michael Filonow
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
£303
The Castelloland Installation. 34 digital photographs on brilliant paper,
Paloma Castello
Photography - 43.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17 x 40 x 0.1 inch
£4,147
OMO: Untitled 15
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
£1,368
Cosmic Dandeliomn
Sylvia Fournier
Photography - 30 x 22 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£249
Torrent36_8617
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
£640
Les amoureux du pavillon Baltard désaffecté
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 36 x 24 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14.2 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
£889
Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
£187
Mots croisés 4
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 85 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
£542
Cinematography inspired session #24
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£169
Forest Whitaker
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£1,466
Lionel joue à Bacchus dans les vignes
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
£578
Paris Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris 5
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£711
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£1,733
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!