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White (Graciosa)
Carlos Estrela
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,371
Reflets du matin... (Esprit Voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 3 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 1.2 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$670
After Winter Comes the Spring
Laura Ecsiova
Painting - 100 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,303
Sea creature
Michelle Jackson Mannix
Painting - 91.44 x 91.44 x 1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 0.4 inch
$2,400
TB Sheets
Michelle Jackson Mannix
Painting - 121.92 x 91.44 x 1 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 0.4 inch
$2,400
Girls with a flower
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$737
The ocean loves the moon
Bernadette Youngquist
Painting - 51 x 51 x 1 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,369
Aurore d'été... (Esprit voile 2021)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,009
Composition abstraite Ref AB0651
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 75 x 105 cm Painting - 29.5 x 41.3 inch
$3,237
Alejandro Talavante
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$13,228
La México. CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Diego Silvetti. La México, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Energy dance. White ceramic sculpture of a woman. Energy lines.
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 25 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$1,340
Energy dance. White ceramic sculpture of a woman. Between the palms.
Sve Gri
Sculpture - 25 x 11 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 4.3 x 3.1 inch
$1,340
Mémoire du temps n° 41 : Archéologie du temps
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 146 x 114 x 3.5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.4 inch
$5,570
Mémoire du temps n° 42
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$3,996
Signes de désorientations (série)
Patrick Beaulieu
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$1,563
Douceur sucrée - série Sucettes
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 80 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$530
Mémoire oubliée N°12
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$4,454
Œuvre par André Ferrand
André Ferrand
Painting - 123 x 94 x 1 cm Painting - 48.4 x 37 x 0.4 inch
$1,340
The betta gang
Michael Filonow
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$565
Tre cavalli in corsa
Gianfranco Migliozzi
Painting - 100 x 120 x 15 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 5.9 inch
$2,791
# Wakan Tanka
Clara Antonelli
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.62 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,340
Heart(black and white)-IV
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,233
Super héroïne
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
$200
Balance Series #9
Lana Matsuyama
Sculpture - 60 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$6,542
Kalaallit Nunaat 10-10
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$1,340
Terra Incognita - Breathe
Guillaume Pépy
Photography - 70 x 105 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 inch
$1,563
Coque noir et Blanc
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,451
Ballerina IV
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$218
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!