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Flower poem: eternity
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£377
Flower poem: a white butterfly
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£377
N° 1233 Haïfa. Mont Carmel.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,156
Divas de Jazz #2
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
£845
N° 1117 Belgrade 14. Eglise orthodoxe de Saint-Sava A
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
£445
The artist (F.U.A.I.)
Michael Grine
Painting - 76.2 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 23 x 0.1 inch
£419
Mademoiselle Colette
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
£489
Michelangelo’s David Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
£180
N° 1135 Marquis(e) et Marquis(e) de La Côtinière.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 41 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
£578
Course aux contamines
Adrianna MJW
Painting - 88 x 116 x 5 cm Painting - 34.6 x 45.7 x 2 inch
£7,115
Recette Brioche de foie gras
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
£98
The Goddess Of The Hunt Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 44 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
£130
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
£130
Head / Pinokio
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£5,069
Crâne
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
£258
Scrooge McDuck Money Maker tag
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,298
Sneaker Slam: Jordan & Basketball pop art sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 22 x 20 x 3 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
£330
Serge Gainsbourg 01
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£845
Couple noir et blanc
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 51 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
£356
Contemporary man
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 65 x 87 x 47 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 34.3 x 18.5 inch
£5,336
Alphaville
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
£2,802
Anonimo#15
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 105 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£1,779
I don't know why it's seems so funny
David Pinegar
Photography - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£15,386
D8
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£133
Rising to the starscape
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
£3,380
White is golden is golden is white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
£4,225
There’s a place in my heart
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
£4,225
Guerre et paix
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 120 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
£3,558
The Dark Side Of Athena Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 55 x 37 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 14.6 x 7.9 inch
£250
Hercules Last Supper
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 40 x 29 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.4 x 5.9 inch
£330
David The Golden Boy
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
£230
Ray Charles (noir & blanc)
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
£80
Wind and storm / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
£863
Neige et plage en Bretagne / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 2 inch
£863
Arbre
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
£71
Du ciel 5
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.1 x 0 inch
£347
Du ciel 6
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.1 x 0 inch
£347
En suspension
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£863
Petite régate /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
£863
Please don't kill my vibe
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 35 x 14 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.5 x 3.1 inch
£150
Golden Streak Artemis
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 14 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 5.5 inch
£200
Winter paradise for the Lynx
Mariam Qureshi
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 0.05 inch
£670
Mana Sarovar lake-4
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
£1,675
Incontro Musicale
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 215 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 84.6 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
£16,898
Flower poem: An expression of happiness only (1)
Jihun Ju
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
£377
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!