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Persephone
Kalliope Amorphous
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.05 inch
€2,139
Dans un monde en noir et blanc
Antoine Josse
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,900
Winter white mountain landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€600
White abstract painting GW145
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,623
Brown abstract painting DK663
Radek Smach
Painting - 70.1 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,176
Abstract painting CS417
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€1,944
Abstract painting IT874
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,672
Abstract painting HR481
Radek Smach
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,759
Time 2
Krasimira Stikar
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
€720
Graff & Griff
Christine Dumas de Rauly
Painting - 60 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€1,000
Richard Wagner
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
€3,500
Too much love will kill you
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1 inch
€2,000
HEtresEnCompagnie #04
Corinne Bresson
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€320
Dans les champs, en fin d´après-midi.
José Saboia
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,600
Medusa out of this world
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 85 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
€1,709
Resurrectionem Ex-Mortuis Vinyle
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 30.5 x 30.5 cm Print - 12 x 12 inch
€150
Elegant minimalism
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
€800
Abstract n°568
Harry James Moody
Painting - 127 x 101.6 x 4.1 cm Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.6 inch
€6,900
Abstract n°513 L.A. September
Harry James Moody
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€11,500
Abstract n°512 L.A. September
Harry James Moody
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1.6 inch
€11,500
Onde vibratoire blanche 4
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 46 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,100
Virtuous Woman
Kamal Obat
Photography - 59.4 x 41.9 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
€340
Otherworldly IV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
€1,798
Fragile framework II
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.2 inch
€1,264
Love Cures No.2
Xiao Ying Chen
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€1,300 €1,105
Skiers At Verbier - 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
€3,550
Série : Se faire passer pour Mao
Nathalie Daoust
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
€2,500
La fraîcheur du monde
Jean-Pierre Petit
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€600
Mnemonic codes 001
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 63.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25 x 16 x 0.1 inch
€919
Mnemonic codes 004
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 57.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.5 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€1,102
Every day´s magic
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Exuberance
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
€1,944
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!