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Together In Electric Dreams
Kelly Jenkins
Painting - 46 x 46 x 4 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,746
Rio Carnaval Shape Sublime
Anthony Horth
Photography - 61 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$780
I will always be here for you
Elena Raceala
Photography - 61 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$1,067
Trapezist
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 31.8 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,236
Où est Charlie ? IV
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$140
Contemplum #017
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$955
Contemplum #012
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 19 x 29 x 0.03 cm Photography - 7.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$730
Contemplum #010
Dani Garcia Sarabia
Photography - 33 x 50 x 0.03 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$955
Jean-Marc Barr
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$674
Series "Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding", winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
Swirling
Eduarda Tavares
Fine Art Drawings - 59.4 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,461
Enchantement… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,023
Imagined destinations, Winter (L’hiver)
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Painting - 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,686
Feeling
Jean-Humbert Savoldelli
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,045
Olgiati
Art-I-Texture by Frida Awrohum
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,180
En solitaire… (paysage abstrait 2020)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Petite ruine au printemps en Grèce
Danielle Launay
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,247
Forêt flamboyante
Danielle Launay
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,247
Mon jardin de nuit
Danielle Launay
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,247
Amour incandescent - Lyrisme abstrait
Sylvie Adaoust
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,124
Standing wild bear
Richard Orlinski
Sculpture - 40 x 25 x 28 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 11 inch
$14,495
Behind the Door
Salome Khubashvili
Painting - 96 x 147 x 2 cm Painting - 37.8 x 57.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Cloud (Angel)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,753
Cloud (Atlantic tropical cyclons 1954-2021)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,753
Régate à l'horizon... II (Paysage abstrait 2022)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 30 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
Arkitekton 7, 11 of 25
Paul Anton
Sculpture - 14 x 12 x 16 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 4.7 x 6.3 inch
$2,330
Tectonia P1, 4 of 7
Paul Anton
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,519
Zimmer I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,348
La piscine et le toit
Didier Colomès
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,686
Horizon Metronome
Richard Dubure
Painting - 130 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
$6,068
Freedom in confinement
Imogen Hope
Painting - 55 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,978
Take A Chance
Karen Elizabeth Branco
Painting - 60.96 x 91.44 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$2,348
Jack Climbs Out of the Box
Evelyn Morgan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,270
Où est Charlie ? VII
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$140
Paris Notre Dame Cathedrale de Paris 7
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$899
Paris Notre Dame Cathédrale de Paris
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$899
Paris bateaux mouche I
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$899
Paris bateaux mouches
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 18 x 24 x 1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
$899
Le petit Prince des Pétillantes
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 23 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 9.1 inch
$3,596
True North / Rose des vents
Ginette Legaré
Sculpture - 35.6 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 1.5 inch
$1,798
Nos pradjos da vida
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 110 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,933
Tomados em Afagas da Lua
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,315
I love Chanel bottle graffiti
Fred Meurice
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 6 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.4 inch
$1,798
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!