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![Painting, Mauve, Nash](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187641_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Carrare, Ralph Resch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162324_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Reflection of an Existence - 14, Ralouka Montesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210498_1_grid.jpg)
Reflection of an Existence - 14
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$1,079
![Photography, Reflection of an Existence - 13, Ralouka Montesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210497_1_grid.jpg)
Reflection of an Existence - 13
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$710
![Photography, Reflection of an Existence - 10, Ralouka Montesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210493_1_grid.jpg)
Reflection of an Existence - 10
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 30 x 45 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 inch
$710
![Photography, Alberobello Echoes - 09, Ralouka Montesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209545_1_grid.jpg)
Alberobello Echoes - 09
Ralouka Montesi
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$1,169
![Painting, Blanc infiltré de rouge, Olivier Hache](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208818_1_grid.jpg)
Blanc infiltré de rouge
Olivier Hache
Painting - 116 x 89 x 5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 2 inch
$5,033
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Stuðlafoss, Canyon Stuðlagil
Michel Eisenlohr
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
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Gaucho, Nomadic Horsemen
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 58.4 x 45.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23 x 18 x 0.2 inch
$1,800
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Gaucho, Nomadic Horsemen VII
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 55.9 x 44.7 x 0.5 cm Photography - 22 x 17.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,600
![Print, Toutes les Vaches ne Broutent pas, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215244_1_grid.jpg)
Toutes les Vaches ne Broutent pas
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Seul au Monde I, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215226_1_grid.jpg)
Seul au Monde I
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Red Milk, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215223_1_grid.jpg)
Red Milk
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Plastic is Fantastic, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215212_1_grid.jpg)
Plastic is Fantastic
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Oscar Runs very Fast III, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215210_1_grid.jpg)
Oscar Runs very Fast III
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Eqqus Zebra Dernier specimen, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215174_1_grid.jpg)
Eqqus Zebra Dernier specimen
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Print, Crane d'oeuf III, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215165_1_grid.jpg)
Crane d'oeuf III
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334 $168
![Sculpture, Passion Boero, Sagrasse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213088_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Naturaleza, Silvia Calmejane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210742_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Desert Goddess, Silvia Calmejane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210129_1_grid.jpg)
Desert Goddess
Silvia Calmejane
Painting - 140 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,500
![Painting, La jeune fille à la fenêtre, Anne Horlaville](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206896_1_grid.jpg)
La jeune fille à la fenêtre
Anne Horlaville
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$626
![Painting, Regeneration, Fulvio Codsi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204655_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Come tell where it hurts (diptych), Christa David](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2215321_1_grid.jpg)
Come tell where it hurts (diptych)
Christa David
Photography - 121.9 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$5,369
![Painting, Cube 24, Lucio Forte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208057_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary portrait Entomological Collection, Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197522_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait Entomological Collection
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
![Painting, La barquette, Pedro Viana Parente](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192452_1_grid.jpg)
La barquette
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$1,790
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![Painting, The girl in feather canyons, Ritchelly Oliveira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186855_1_grid.jpg)
The girl in feather canyons
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 78 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 30.7 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$9,395
![Photography, Baltic_Ice_II_Helsinki_018, Bernhard Lang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213902_1_grid.jpg)
Baltic_Ice_II_Helsinki_018
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 225 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 88.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
![Photography, Baltic_Ice_II_Helsinki_011, Bernhard Lang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213869_1_grid.jpg)
Baltic_Ice_II_Helsinki_011
Bernhard Lang
Photography - 135 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 53.1 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
![Sculpture, Mobilsnoop, Dezache](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213047_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fantasy Art III (una joven con la paloma), Vesna Udicki Vucetic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212009_1_grid.jpg)
Fantasy Art III (una joven con la paloma)
Vesna Udicki Vucetic
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
![Painting, Delicate blossom bouquet, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209220_1_grid.jpg)
Delicate blossom bouquet
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$450
![Painting, Flowered Meadow, Ružena Velesová](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208555_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blooming Grace, Kayimahe Ishmael Zed](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203885_1_grid.jpg)
Blooming Grace
Kayimahe Ishmael Zed
Painting - 89.9 x 70.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1 inch
$1,750
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J’ai l’âme nomade
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,550
![Fine Art Drawings, J’ai escaladé ce que les vagues effacent, Magdalena Lamri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187670_1_grid.jpg)
J’ai escaladé ce que les vagues effacent
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,953
![Fine Art Drawings, Dans l’écho du silence, Magdalena Lamri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187629_1_grid.jpg)
Dans l’écho du silence
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,550
![Fine Art Drawings, Les volets clos, Magdalena Lamri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187548_1_grid.jpg)
Les volets clos
Magdalena Lamri
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$2,684
![Painting, Sunny Morning, Marta Zawadzka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209354_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - Miniature 3, Pauline Couble](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207379_1_grid.jpg)
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - Miniature 3
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 11 x 6 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 2.4 x 3.9 inch
$391
![Painting, Collection, Samuel Bloch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206919_1_grid.jpg)
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L'hôtel isolé, Alcúdia
Christelle Yambayisa
Photography - 70 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$3,132
![Painting, A l'heure de l'apéro, Daniel Jung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193417_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Vibrant Ensemble, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191807_1_grid.jpg)
The Vibrant Ensemble
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$999
![Painting, Winter's Silent Shroud, Hayk Miqayelyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190247_1_grid.jpg)
Winter's Silent Shroud
Hayk Miqayelyan
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$890
![Painting, Quiet Contemplation, Gabrielle Strong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214648_1_grid.jpg)
Quiet Contemplation
Gabrielle Strong
Painting - 77 x 153 x 4 cm Painting - 30.3 x 60.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,533
![Sculpture, Falling Stars Les pids des reves - Tweety, Alexandre de Poplavsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213059_1_grid.jpg)
Falling Stars Les pids des reves - Tweety
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Sculpture - 60 x 35 x 40 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 13.8 x 15.7 inch
$16,777
![Photography, L'Innocente intacte - Format L, Mathilde Oscar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212467_1_grid.jpg)
L'Innocente intacte - Format L
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,388
![Painting, White tulips on a pink background. Morning, spring, Lilya Volskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206231_1_grid.jpg)
White tulips on a pink background. Morning, spring
Lilya Volskaya
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$727
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Majesty in Monochrome
Tamar Nazaryan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,200
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!