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Insta(nt)llation - Guggenheim NYC. 1/2
Eszter Poroszlai
Photography - 20 x 27.5 x 3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 10.8 x 1.2 inch
€930
Fréquence d'amour
Christelle Ferron (Nasca)
Painting - 97 x 146 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,280
Atlanta high museum
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,869
Dissension au confessionnal
Timothy Archer
Painting - 120 x 80 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
€4,500
Two Halves Make A Whole Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 9.1 inch
€182
Techno punk skull (diptych)
Pierluigi Coppola Anderson
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Cenizas y diamantes XXIII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
€580
27° 42' 26.32'' N, 7° 42' 26.32'' W-15
Paola Dávila
Photography - 58.4 x 111.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23 x 44 x 0.1 inch
€3,482
Intemerata
Patrick Strajnic
Photography - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
€1,290
Barques de Pécheurs catalans
André Lac
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 52 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
€640
Elvis Presley
Erekle Tsuladze
Sculpture - 70 x 295 x 130 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 116.1 x 51.2 inch
€70,000
Composition noir et blanc 8
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 38.5 x 57 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.2 x 22.4 x 0 inch
€400
Composition noir et blanc 7
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 57 x 38.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 22.4 x 15.2 x 0 inch
€400
The Sons of Archon - Plate 8
Giorgio de Chirico
Print - 29.3 x 43.8 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.5 x 17.2 x 0 inch
€4,800
L'Attrape rêve 2
Eric Beauplace
Sculpture - 65 x 95 x 20 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 37.4 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
L'Attrape rêve 1
Eric Beauplace
Sculpture - 53 x 103 x 20 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 40.6 x 7.9 inch
€7,500
Quantas formas tens para contar o tempo 1
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 93 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
€2,600
Sans titre 2
Thierry Valencin
Photography - 32 x 40 x 3 cm Photography - 12.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€980
Cinematography inspired session #22
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€190
Grammature Di Colore (Color Weight)
Elio Marchegiani
Print - 48 x 65.6 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.9 x 25.8 x 0.1 inch
€280
Grammature Di Colore (Color Weight)
Elio Marchegiani
Print - 47.5 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
€280
Come il Santo (Like the Saint)
Tommaso Cascella
Painting - 60 x 60 x 8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 3.1 inch
€6,500
Jardin d'enfants
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€700
Enfants qui lisent
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Poupée blanche
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Course nocturne
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 30 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€700
Femme au tableau
Emmanuelle Barbaras
Photography - 28 x 36 x 1 cm Photography - 11 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
€700
Etude de la place
Eugenia Jaeger
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 inch
€700
Casper the Ghost x PopArt x Obey x White
Koen Betjes
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€449
Dancer: Karolina #1
Cody Choi
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.1 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0 inch
€553
Above the Clouds #3
Cody Choi
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0 inch
€796
Purple papaya
Prisca Akua Kwaning
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,651
Meet me in the middle
Prisca Akua Kwaning
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,465
Disposición lineal
Borja Barrajón
Sculpture - 21 x 24 x 20 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 9.4 x 7.9 inch
€3,875
Pink shoes and glasses of the eccentric
Kraiwit Phothikul
Painting - 120 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
€3,000
Fields of France
ERA Artistry
Painting - 44.5 x 54.5 x 3 cm Painting - 17.5 x 21.5 x 1.2 inch
€3,100
C'est qui le patron
Sandra Paris
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
€179
Portrait 2
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€680
The Flight of David
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
€680
Scattered Floes
Nicholas Kriefall
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
€2,805
Between The Light - Neon Lemon V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€10,326
Between The Light - Titanium on Viridian V1 Edit
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€10,326
Apple tree in the snow
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 20 x 30 x 0.3 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
€3,600
Summer Rain
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 70 x 47 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 18.5 x 0.8 inch
€990
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!