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Abstract painting IT705
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
Stop aux déchets - série panneaux de signalisation
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,112
Stop - série La ville
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,112
La vie
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$472
It’s Beyond my control
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$472
Spotty face beauty
Faie Davis
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$925
Laid Bare - Nude + Gold #4
Sophie Derrick
Print - 59.4 x 42 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$713
En bordure de Central Park, New York
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$730
Noce berrichonne, la parade dans le village
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$843
Courrèges
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 40 x 26.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
$1,124
Being and nothingness
Shulan Wang
Photography - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
The lovin' Swans
Michaël Fok Bor
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,023
La Mer Des Rêves - Round Edition
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 40 x 40 x 5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$1,124 $955
Ilori 3 (Put To Bed)
Janet Adebayo
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,990
Chasser les mouettes
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 32 x 24 x 2 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
Viens je suis là 1 - Paysage et mer
Florentine Peeters
Painting - 30 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,337
Healing Greenland, Chunja & the dog
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,124
Mother and child
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 105 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,416
La Mer Des Rêves - Single Canva
Vivianne Paris Panigiris
Sculpture - 40 x 30 x 3 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$899 $764
Personnage avec cartouche
Georges Bru
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 16 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,326
Frida Kahlo in the blue house, Coyoacán, Mexico.
Leo Matiz
Photography - 35.6 x 25.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 14 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$1,800
Two lovers
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,686
Healing Greenland, Chunja and The Monkey Brothers
Shin Seung-Hun
Fine Art Drawings - 72 x 77.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.3 x 30.5 x 0 inch
$1,124
Figure Group
Robert Goodnough
Fine Art Drawings - 29.2 x 39.4 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 15.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,850
Hommage à Lalanne
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 88 x 65 x 38 cm Sculpture - 34.6 x 25.6 x 15 inch
$17,979
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,686
L'évêque - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 80 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 31.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,888
Couple II - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,236
Dream gallery (cattelan, Cindy Sherman, galerie perrotin) black
André Saraiva
Print - 100 x 70 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$566
Grand Duc aux chardons - série animal et botanique
Marie-Véronique Samaden
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,101
Retiro in May
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$596 $536
Pigeon monument
Mihaela Ivanova
Photography - 50 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$618 $556
K1901 / Whitewater
Harald Kröner
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 95 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,139
Renversements 733
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,348
Renversements 734
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,348
Bosque alto Andino Vélez
Miguel Winograd
Photography - 109.2 x 82.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43 x 32.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Entrelazar 6 Wall Sculpture
Javier Rey
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 8 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 3.1 inch
$1,000
Ink album (Flower)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$337
Ink album (Jug)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$337
Shoot the bank on financial time (Arrows 2013)
JP Malot
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,247
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!