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Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
£849
Women
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.1 x 9.8 x 0 inch
£2,403
Trapezist
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 31.8 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.5 x 0.2 inch
£983
Où est Charlie ? IV
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£112
Paris Notre Dame Cathédrale de Paris
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
£715
Paris bateaux mouche I
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£715
Paris bateaux mouches
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£715
White eagle. A keen eye.
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
£715
Swirling
Eduarda Tavares
Fine Art Drawings - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,161
Feeling
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£3,216
Petite ruine au printemps en Grèce
Danielle Launay
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,786
Forêt flamboyante
Danielle Launay
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,786
Mon jardin de nuit
Danielle Launay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£1,786
Apres l'orage
Danielle Launay
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,786 £1,518
Amour incandescent - Lyrisme abstrait
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£1,688
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
£1,340
Cloud (Angel)
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
£1,393
Cloud (Atlantic tropical cyclons 1954-2021)
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
£1,393
Arkitekton 7, 11 of 25
Paul Anton
Sculpture - 14 x 12 x 16 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 4.7 x 6.3 inch
£1,853
Tectonia P1, 4 of 7
Paul Anton
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 inch
£2,003
Zimmer I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
£1,072 £911
La piscine et le toit
Didier Colomès
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,340
Horizon Metronome
Richard Dubure
Painting - 130 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
£4,823
Freedom in confinement
Imogen Hope
Painting - 55 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£2,367
Take A Chance
Karen Elizabeth Branco
Painting - 60.96 x 91.44 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
£1,867
Cimetiere 03
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
£4,020
Cimetiere 02
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
£4,020
Jack Climbs Out of the Box
Evelyn Morgan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,500
Où est Charlie ? VII
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
£112
Le petit Prince des Pétillantes
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 23 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 9.1 inch
£2,858
True North / Rose des vents
Ginette Legaré
Sculpture - 35.6 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 1.5 inch
£1,429
Nos pradjos da vida
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 110 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
£3,126
Tomados em Afagas da Lua
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
£2,635
I love Chanel bottle graffiti
Fred Meurice
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 6 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.4 inch
£1,429
Paysages de Chine 8
Guoquan Zeng
Painting - 40 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
£3,216 £2,894
Shoes, Fashion victim, Converse, G30 - Composition numérique
Danielle Aspis
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
£786
Shoes, Fashion victim, Stan, G17 - Composition numérique
Danielle Aspis
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
£786
Bitcoin X Shoot the bank
JP Malot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£1,161
In Search of Balance N3
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
£1,072
In Search of Balance N2
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
£1,072
In Search of Balance N1
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
£1,072
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!