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Une touche de modernité
Eric Munsch
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£933
Blue, Peach and Black Washi abstract
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
£746
Le vieux pot de peinture jaune - 363
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 12 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
£400
Cabeza con cuernos
Nacho Eterno
Sculpture - 39 x 16 x 18 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 6.3 x 7.1 inch
£2,053
Over-reaction: Squirreling half-eaten food in your bedroom again?!?! We can get mice!!!
Lauren Naomi
Painting - 121.9 x 274.3 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 108 x 1.6 inch
£7,287
Stop wars, d'après Banksy
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£1,066
All Things Begin and End in Eternity
Carrie Graber
Print - 101.6 x 38.1 cm Print - 40 x 15 inch
£933
Hommage à Picasso et à Fernand Léger (noir et blanc)
Erró
Print - 57 x 81 x 1 cm Print - 22.4 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
£800
The Whiskey Call
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.75 inch
£24,531
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
Let's go hiking
Katharina Hormel
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£1,066
Soft abstraction VI
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
£2,311
Drawing 427
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 58 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
£533 £453
Drawing 426
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 41 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
£533 £453
Composition No. 385
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
£667 £567
Composition No. 323
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0 inch
£622
Drawing 335
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 56 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
£622
Composition No.252
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 63 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.8 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£444 £378
Spring Hurts.
Djénina Hagenburger
Painting - 122 x 135 x 1 cm Painting - 48 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
£3,910
Louis Vuitton Monogram
Léo & Steph
Print - 89 x 59 x 3 cm Print - 35 x 23.2 x 1.2 inch
£5,777 £4,621
Urban structure 2
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,088
Among the mountains
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 204 x 280 x 4 cm Painting - 80.3 x 110.2 x 1.6 inch
£24,879
This too shall pass
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
£1,777
Signs from above
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1 inch
£1,066
Dream of the Thousand and One Nights Lights 2 - Rêve de Lumières des Mille et Une Nuits 2
Cecile Gonne Victoria
Painting - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
£258
L'aventurière
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
£1,244
Personajes en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
£538
La lune… miroir du temps
Maria-Pia Barberi
Painting - 100 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
£622
Cosmic Dandeliomn
Sylvia Fournier
Photography - 30 x 22 x 0.01 cm Photography - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£249
Print Alphabet rehaussé 2
Bows
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£178
Print Alphabet rehaussé 1
Bows
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.4 inch
£178
Through the Pale Twilit Meadows
Katharina Husslein
Painting - 120 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
£3,288
Pinçejat innovat taronja
Ferran Cartes Yerro
Sculpture - 27 x 27 x 6 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 10.6 x 2.4 inch
£311
Chamonix
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 36 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 14.2 inch
£320
Fabrique à glace 23 #2
Marion Chombart de Lauwe
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 49 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 19.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,577
Couleurs et formes du monde - Gabriel, architecte de couleurs
Thomas Jeunet
Painting - 146 x 96 x 3.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 37.8 x 1.4 inch
£3,110
Never another word
Mercedes Lagunas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
£2,397
Torrent36_8617
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
£640
Silence anticipation
Stanislav Lazarov
Painting - 35 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
£311
Community Snapshot
Lauren Naomi
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 19 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 7.5 inch
£7,421
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!