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![Painting, Van Gogh, Noa Grayevsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199258_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, While The World Decay (Fluro), Snik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156444_1_grid.jpg)
While The World Decay (Fluro)
Snik
Painting - 48.7 x 102.7 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.2 x 40.4 x 0.1 inch
$4,474
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Odonchimeg Davaadorj](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/358516_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Odonchimeg Davaadorj
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 41.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.3 inch
$1,230
![Painting, XXXL Abstract Antarctica (Diptych), Susan Wooler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815780_1_grid.jpg)
XXXL Abstract Antarctica (Diptych)
Susan Wooler
Painting - 100.1 x 199.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,655
![Sculpture, Cobra I, Veronica Jurkowitsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1549410_1_grid.jpg)
Cobra I
Veronica Jurkowitsch
Sculpture - 106 x 40 x 14 cm Sculpture - 41.7 x 15.7 x 5.5 inch
$13,254
![Painting, If I could walk this way, Jon Petro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1323603_1_grid.jpg)
If I could walk this way
Jon Petro
Painting - 121.92 x 106.68 x 5 cm Painting - 48 x 42 x 2 inch
$6,525
![Painting, White shield, Kevin Brewerton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842051_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Neurone Totem 3, Kathy Le Vavasseur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1799001_1_grid.jpg)
Neurone Totem 3
Kathy Le Vavasseur
Sculpture - 30 x 7 x 7 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 2.8 x 2.8 inch
$1,286
![Photography, The Basketball game, Paul Almasy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1368141_1_grid.jpg)
The Basketball game
Paul Almasy
Photography - 69.5 x 49.6 x 1 cm Photography - 27.4 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$979
![Painting, Gliding Towards Tomorrow, Kpe Innocent](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176113_1_grid.jpg)
Gliding Towards Tomorrow
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 80 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$5,033
![Fine Art Drawings, Série dialogue avec l'histoire avec l'histoire de l'art 1, Soly Cissé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1457715_1_grid.jpg)
Série dialogue avec l'histoire avec l'histoire de l'art 1
Soly Cissé
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$951
![Photography, Debbie Harry, Coney Island, NY. August 7, 1977, Bob Gruen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138279_1_grid.jpg)
Debbie Harry, Coney Island, NY. August 7, 1977
Bob Gruen
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 11 x 14 x 2 inch
$1,400
![Painting, Iceberg, Charo Velasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227540_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Silent, Emilie Mori](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1979712_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Repaire, Michel Beltrami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1603914_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 114, Nadine Van Der Straeten](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/235423_1_grid.jpg)
Jeanne Hébuterne - Planche 114
Nadine Van Der Straeten
Print - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$660
![Sculpture, Balance Series #10, Lana Matsuyama](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1326522_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sail, Oriane Brune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1145400_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Bicicletas, Crianças e Outras Alegrias, Geraldo Pestalozzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/249475_1_grid.jpg)
Bicicletas, Crianças e Outras Alegrias
Geraldo Pestalozzi
Photography - 29.7 x 42 cm Photography - 11.7 x 16.5 inch
$559
![Painting, Sea and moon, Josep Miquel Paufila](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1214208_1_grid.jpg)
Sea and moon
Josep Miquel Paufila
Painting - 50 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,678
![Sculpture, Candelabrum, L'Atlas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161363_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Decadencia, David Albert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179819_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Joël Kermarrec](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170949_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Joël Kermarrec
Fine Art Drawings - 62 x 48 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.4 x 18.9 x 0 inch
$895
![Fine Art Drawings, Two in the Pool, Carrie Graber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1323723_1_grid.jpg)
Two in the Pool
Carrie Graber
Fine Art Drawings - 61 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 19 inch
$1,750
![Painting, Anémones, Vinciane Closset](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173304_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Paloma sobre papeles, Josep Escarrant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1962420_1_grid.jpg)
Paloma sobre papeles
Josep Escarrant
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$246
![Print, Nkisi # 3, David Makala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1478331_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Eternal Becoming, Luca Izzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1079979_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Packaging, Salvo Alibrio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175998_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Every day is indigenous peoples day, Michael Alan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686303_1_grid.jpg)
Every day is indigenous peoples day
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 295.9 x 58.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 116.5 x 22.9 x 0.04 inch
$1,230
![Design, We All Make the Flowers Grow III (White), Josh Sperling](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1515801_1_grid.jpg)
We All Make the Flowers Grow III (White)
Josh Sperling
Design - 35 x 42 x 8.9 cm Design - 13.8 x 16.5 x 3.5 inch
$2,641
![Print, Santa Claus, Alexander Calder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1441494_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Typofigures_1, Agnes von Rogister](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319481_1_grid.jpg)
Typofigures_1
Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 45 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,734
![Painting, Unmet horizons, part 1., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448298_1_grid.jpg)
Unmet horizons, part 1.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,962
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans-titre, Gianfranco Baruchello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994635_1_grid.jpg)
Sans-titre
Gianfranco Baruchello
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 12 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.7 inch
$2,796
![Fine Art Drawings, Without identity, Maurizio Gracceva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/919353_1_grid.jpg)
Without identity
Maurizio Gracceva
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 72 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 28.3 x 0 inch
$1,678
![Photography, Pink or black 03, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535877_1_grid.jpg)
Pink or black 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Painting, Le Guide, Geoffrey Callènes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488153_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gateway to Universe, Chris Barley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1422285_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 210, Harleen X](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926639_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nilam I, Bera Saskia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1382754_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cocacola 6, Granados](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/994230_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hope, Benjamin Dearnley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1508622_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Grandma Divers IX, Alain Schroeder](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/581598_1_grid.jpg)
Grandma Divers IX
Alain Schroeder
Photography - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,796
![Sculpture, Horse, Gelitin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/228934_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Seaside, 1 Woman, 2 Men, Katherine Bradford](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1823706_1_grid.jpg)
Seaside, 1 Woman, 2 Men
Katherine Bradford
Print - 53.3 x 58.4 x 1.27 cm Print - 21 x 23 x 0.5 inch
$14,998
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans-titre, Loïc Le Groumellec](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1388067_1_grid.jpg)
Sans-titre
Loïc Le Groumellec
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 7.9 inch
$1,622
![Fine Art Drawings, Un homme et une femme, Jean-Luc Celereau de Clercq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1330680_1_grid.jpg)
Un homme et une femme
Jean-Luc Celereau de Clercq
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,063
![Painting, Vent sur le lac (PM01), Palmi Marzaroli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/467425_1_grid.jpg)
Vent sur le lac (PM01)
Palmi Marzaroli
Painting - 32 x 32 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,454
![Painting, Totem, Clément Reinaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1954401_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Double trouble, ODart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731480_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Esarazione 045, Alfredo Celli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482831_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Hans Richter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1052397_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Emerald abstract painting SA765, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865463_1_grid.jpg)
Emerald abstract painting SA765
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
![Sculpture, Wave, Ok Nam Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/579459_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, When looking at this with closed eyes (dyptique), Shusaku Arakawa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175593_1_grid.jpg)
When looking at this with closed eyes (dyptique)
Shusaku Arakawa
Print - 105 x 146 x 0.1 cm Print - 41.3 x 57.5 x 0 inch
$1,566 $1,253
![Print, Chicago Blues, Mezzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1556964_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Nouveau départ, Xavier-Alexandre Pons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/101389_1_grid.jpg)
Nouveau départ
Xavier-Alexandre Pons
Photography - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,349
![Print, Marilyn I, Blank Barbie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178299_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, K1959, Harald Kröner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162926_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Deadline, Stefan Nikolaev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1784868_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le chant des machines, Gwendoline Hausermann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559223_1_grid.jpg)
Le chant des machines
Gwendoline Hausermann
Painting - 99 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,461
![Painting, Coffee to go (espresso), Ties Ten Bosch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1194657_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait I (1), Rong Su](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2122620_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Globulo, Melinda Infante](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938975_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Lampe UNE, Arnaud Pohl](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611150_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Black and White, Jean Dewasne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1296525_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ennio, Art'No](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1321830_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Spray Stoz 2, Stoz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265466_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Hanami #3, Marcel Antelo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1087962_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre, Julius Baltazar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/95467_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 20.07, Mccain McMurray](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Social statue, Palina Kasino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626153_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sign Abstractionism, Wang Keliang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1594398_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Days Departed Impasse #5, Joseph Di Bella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1592637_1_grid.jpg)
Days Departed Impasse #5
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,099
![Painting, Green Fantasy Marble, Lilly Diana](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468755_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flame, Seema Mathew](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1373496_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pinkie with Green Marks, Liz Zorn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167996_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Coffee Bean, Victoria Kloch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1884585_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eglogue citadine II, Rose Passalboni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1602864_1_grid.jpg)
Eglogue citadine II
Rose Passalboni
Painting - 25 x 25 x 3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,189
![Painting, Sac en coton, André Saraiva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1489278_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre (136), Philippe Favier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792453_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre 4, Vincent Mauger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176170_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le saladier, Laurence Gasior](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1301220_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Wifredo Lam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1159038_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Neck Tattoo, Warwick Saint](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/257563_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tempête tropicale - Paysage abstrait, Nicole Gérard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1990830_1_grid.jpg)
Tempête tropicale - Paysage abstrait
Nicole Gérard
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,538
![Sculpture, Abstract composition in white, Tonino Maurizi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938933_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract composition in white
Tonino Maurizi
Sculpture - 28 x 21 x 3 cm Sculpture - 11 x 8.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,398
![Design, Empreintes, César Baldaccini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1479540_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Allées et venues en paysage moelleux n°3, Éléonore Deshayes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1522158_1_grid.jpg)
Allées et venues en paysage moelleux n°3
Éléonore Deshayes
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,474
![Painting, George Condo, Mariana Bunimov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1092225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Acqua, Michel Gueranger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1899558_1_grid.jpg)
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!