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Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$772
Features of simultaneous interpreting
Tanya Grinevich
Painting - 254 x 254 x 5.1 cm Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 inch
$5,994
Winter Twist
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$832
The Birth of Venus
Jeremy Bianco
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$4,218
En attendant le jour
Xavier Jallais
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,609
Aux abords de la maison
Francois Priser
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,664
Sans titre
Bernard Noël
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$888
Le desespéré
Fabienne Bonneau (Fablues)
Sculpture - 30 x 34 x 29 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.4 x 11.4 inch
$888
Ballet Series II
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$766
The late night talking 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 111.8 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 44 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$2,510
Life is beautiful
Simone De Rosa
Sculpture - 26 x 26 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 10.2 x 3.9 inch
$322
Oceani Mentali n°9
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$388
Eroded Astronaut
Daniel Arsham
Sculpture - 30.5 x 21.6 x 21.6 cm Sculpture - 12 x 8.5 x 8.5 inch
$5,439
Homo numericus
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,554
Girl with a yellow ball and a white dog
Sasha Katinauskiene
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Restitutio
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Print - 42.5 x 32 x 4 cm Print - 16.7 x 12.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,554
Encre I
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$622
Siestes short ancres marines
Pascal Astier
Painting - 60 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$2,220
Goddess Circe. Amphora
Paloma Castello
Sculpture - 50 x 34.3 x 34.3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 13.5 x 13.5 inch
$1,600
Des éleveurs d´oiseaux
Ivonaldo Veloso de Melo
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,325
Green Reflection
Bernadette Jiyong Frank
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$10,267
Constructing Dawn
Delphine Hogarth
Painting - 93 x 162 x 4 cm Painting - 36.6 x 63.8 x 1.6 inch
$4,630
La Sainte-Victoire
Sébastien Arcouet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$699
King Kong Balls Blanc
Denis Defrancesco
Sculpture - 11 x 25 x 11 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 9.8 x 4.3 inch
$1,665
Deer in the moonlight. fairytale haven
Mexak Xazaryan
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$350
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,220
Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,443
Rock Extract
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 110 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$5,106
Uncharted Speed
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,440
Inside the cleverness of a bee
Marija Tanaskovic Papadopoulos
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$15,540
Petit Totem Rectangle
Marie Guerrier
Sculpture - 32 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,332
Sunset snowed in Paris - France Belle Epoque painting + frame
Francesco Tammaro
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$905
Banksy in a can
Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
$660
Ref. 1524 - Untitled
Mehdi Dashti
Painting - 148 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 58.3 x 43.3 x 2 inch
$4,995
Sans titre
Daniel Lacomme
Painting - 97 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,440 $3,108
Set of 9 line drawing B&W
Clemens Wolf
Fine Art Drawings - 223.8 x 178.8 x 3.8 cm Fine Art Drawings - 88.1 x 70.4 x 1.5 inch
$19,510
Spring Hurts.
Djénina Hagenburger
Painting - 122 x 135 x 1 cm Painting - 48 x 53.1 x 0.4 inch
$4,884
Deep Bless (les dents de la mère)
FabEnt (Fabrice Entemeyer)
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 11 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 4.3 inch
$777
Mount Fuji and the Heron
Leandro Frutos
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$780
Kintsugi
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Painting - 130 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$33,299
Flower bomb de Banksy
Ray Chan
Sculpture - 36 x 30 x 25 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 11.8 x 9.8 inch
$1,387
Luciano Pavarotti - Rigoletto
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$12,000
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!