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Mr et Mme Hulot - Photographie scène de vie en bord de mer
Denis Morel
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$493
Memory insect 2
Shilpa Joglekar
Photography - 59 x 41 x 0.3 cm Photography - 23.2 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$504 $454
Siècles de solitude
Gabriel Froget
Painting - 90 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,422
The Feast Unveiled
Inga Makarova
Painting - 200 x 300 x 4 cm Painting - 78.7 x 118.1 x 1.6 inch
$20,180
Demeter #6
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,036
In side out #3
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,036
Equivoque - série Portraits hybrides
Claude Verger dite Claud
Painting - 40 x 40 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.2 inch
$504
New York 50
Jean-François Mollière
Photography - 70 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$3,610
Want my apple too?!?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 120 x 80 x 25 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 9.8 inch
$9,036
Fantasia. Tunisie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,345
Mar tormentoso
Francisca Morales Alliende
Painting - 34 x 49 x 1 cm Painting - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,824
The Imaginary Escape
Keziat
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$538
Passante dans un tombeau de la Vallée des Rois
Jean-Pierre Al Courty
Painting - 92 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,812
Park Avenue - New York
Nathalie Lemaître
Painting - 195 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 76.8 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,390
Etendage marocain.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,233
Lagune de Venise
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,233
Forêt rhénane
André Guillarmain
Painting - 130 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Ayrton Senna Mac Leren Silverstone 92
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
Ayrton Senna. Prince de Monaco.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$364
Tigre de Bengale
Ahmed Shahabuddin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$6,390
Fashion is image
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,969
Lichtreflex - Transformation
Hein Gravenhorst
Photography - 36 x 29 cm Photography - 14.2 x 11.4 inch
$13,453
De l'ombre surgit la lumière
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,363
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Manganaro, enfants à la paroisse protestante du village
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$673
Nostalgie - Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$157
Médite - Portrait de femme
Glad_is_murmuring
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$157
Luxury Art Toffee - Luxury Fashion
Michael Daniels
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$252
Confusion
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$6,502
Three vases and a lid
Bennett Vadnais
Painting - 28.5 x 26.67 x 1.27 cm Painting - 11.2 x 10.5 x 0.5 inch
$4,709
Le bois du cerf
Edouard Mazaré
Photography - 83 x 113 x 0.2 cm Photography - 32.7 x 44.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,466
Dancing in turquoise waters 02
Eric Alfaro
Painting - 215 x 65 cm Painting - 84.6 x 25.6 inch
$13,512
Back to Okiya : An Ivory Silent Ballet
Ryoko Watanabe
Sculpture - 170 x 85 x 30 cm Sculpture - 66.9 x 33.5 x 11.8 inch
$35,875
Vive les fleurs et le surf
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$314
Der Pseudoschamane
Salvatore La Cola
Painting - 115 x 95 x 1 cm Painting - 45.3 x 37.4 x 0.4 inch
$7,731
Vases and Fruits
Zhang Wei Guang
Painting - 35 x 59 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 23.2 x 0.8 inch
$14,014
Apparente dualismo
Angioletta De Nitto
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$6,054
Presentation of the bride
Seth Clottey
Painting - 127 x 203.2 x 10.2 cm Painting - 50 x 80 x 4 inch
$8,900
Sculpture Shetani Homme Sage
Agostino Malaba
Sculpture - 100 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$3,363
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!