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81 Futura white lips on black
Alla Grande
Sculpture - 53 x 53 x 5 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 20.9 x 2 inch
$2,121
Paride
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 87 x 34 x 54 cm Sculpture - 34.3 x 13.4 x 21.3 inch
$64,744
Waiting for a friend
DB Waterman
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
People on the coast II
Yelda Inecik
Painting - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$523
Rules of Fight Club - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 3.9 inch
$170
Architecture II
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 69 x 102 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.2 x 40.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,172
Architecture II
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 82 x 122 x 0.5 cm Photography - 32.3 x 48 x 0.2 inch
$2,009
The weight of ravished worlds, selah
Christa David
Photography - 76.2 x 55.88 x 2 cm Photography - 30 x 22 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
Mapping the inner Journey
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$412
Mapping the inner journey #2
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$412
Lost words 1
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 62 x 40 x 0.5 cm Photography - 24.4 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$250
A conversation with a therapist 7
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
A conversation with a therapist 6
Dzovig Arnelian
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Sheelagh Na Gig #2
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 7.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm Painting - 3 x 3 x 0.4 inch
$325
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh-Ville, Hôtel Continental
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$726
Six Dishes Serie Spighe Spikes Series
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 17.5 x 17.5 x 2 cm Design - 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,907
And of love (a tributo to Banksy)
OneFake
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$279
Vintage roller
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 60 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$502
Persee
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 68 x 40 x 37 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 15.7 x 14.6 inch
$49,116
Fiducia in dio
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 68 x 44 x 50 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 17.3 x 19.7 inch
$84,837
The Space Between Us
Ties Ten Bosch
Sculpture - 175 x 125 x 4 cm Sculpture - 68.9 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,693
L'anti-chambre du départ
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$614
Sans titre
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 14.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 5.7 inch
$447
Disco Night
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$3,349
Symphonie… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,581
Elusive 03 (version 2)
Claire Ongley
Painting - 163 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 64.2 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$4,912
Gate into the garden
Sigrid Koller
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,349
memories of the last winter
Elena Raceala
Photography - 200.7 x 133.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 79 x 52.5 x 0.1 inch
$726
Rock Guitare by les Frères Guinet
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 99 x 35 x 8 cm Sculpture - 39 x 13.8 x 3.1 inch
$5,012
Bouquet de pivoines
Philippe Destors
Painting - 46 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,764
Anémones et rosée
Philippe Destors
Painting - 27 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,440
First spring, morningwind
J. Paudert
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,902
Golden field 210710
Don Bishop
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$3,800
Path in the snow, Saint Julien du Pinet
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 108 x 161.8 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,600
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$170
Michelangelo’s David bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$236
Please don't kill my vibe
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 35 x 14 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.5 x 3.1 inch
$196
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!