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Wind and storm / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
Neige et plage en Bretagne / S
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 2 inch
€970
Arbre
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€80
Du ciel 5
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.1 x 0 inch
€390
Du ciel 6
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.1 x 0 inch
€390
En suspension
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€970
Petite régate /
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
€970
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
€183
Golden Streak Artemis
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 18 x 14 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.1 x 5.5 inch
€244
Winter paradise for the Lynx
Mariam Qureshi
Painting - 20.3 x 20.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 8 x 0.05 inch
€778
Incontro Musicale
Tiziano Sculpteur
Sculpture - 215 x 70 x 30 cm Sculpture - 84.6 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€19,000
Flower poem: An expression of happiness only (1)
Jihun Ju
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: Shower of Venus
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€437
Flower Poem: Peacock
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 84.1 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 33.1 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: soulmate
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: cotton
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: shyness
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: even if you don't reach
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: my will
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: beautiful playing
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: In the warmth of the moonlight
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: a white butterfly
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: plum blossom
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: noble
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: eternity
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: lisianthus
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: shine
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Flower poem: pink lily
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
€437
Mana Sarovar lake-4
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.1 inch
€1,944
Arbre
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€80
Retro Jaws Nike Sneakers
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 15 x 25 x 8 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
€293
Cormorans
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
€160
Cafe de Flore, Evening Paris
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
€2,430
Crâne
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€290
Guerre et paix
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 120 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
€4,000
World condention
Tanner Rhines
Fine Art Drawings - 36.83 x 101.6 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.5 x 40 x 0.2 inch
€10,000
Autoroute A77 Sancerre France
Thierry Machuron
Painting - 33 x 41 x 1 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
€500
High up (5)
Nina Schipoff
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
High up (1)
Nina Schipoff
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
Straight cash
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 x 0.1 inch
€486
Deuces
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 23 x 0.1 inch
€486
Water and fire
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 41 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
€2,500
Hydro erosion
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 16 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.8 x 6.3 inch
€4,500
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!