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![Painting, Sans titre, Pierre Célice](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1798947_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Déesse lune, Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1754877_1_grid.jpg)
Déesse lune
Isabelle Schenckbecher-Quint
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
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Let the music play
Ines Khadraoui
Painting - 146 x 114 x 4 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 1.6 inch
$4,474
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Yuki the young yak (White)
Mark Ryden
Sculpture - 43.2 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 17 x 12 x 10 inch
$2,013
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Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 101 x 152 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 59.8 x 0 inch
$1,281
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Cowboy Taxi - Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$643
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Orest Hrytsak
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1 inch
$25,725
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Hesiode Et Homere
Orest Hrytsak
Painting - 162 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$22,369
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Fille coréenne et chat
Sounya Whang
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,451
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Osiria Rose
Four Winds Artistry
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 1.7 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.7 inch
$2,928
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Triptychon
Agnes von Rogister
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$2,248
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Crystalized Charmander Relic
Daniel Arsham
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$6,711
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Endless Solitude
Valeria De Santis
Painting - 180 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$4,664
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Midnight love
Valeria De Santis
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,127
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Stabilität - Stability
Elke Eiermann
Painting - 40 x 40 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,118
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New York Black & White
Sabine Kalka
Painting - 50 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$2,237
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A & M Cafe - Arts et Métiers, Paris 3ème
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
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Tea Time - Museum Ludwig Cologne
Linda Moufadil
Painting - 31 x 61 x 1.5 cm Painting - 12.2 x 24 x 0.6 inch
$1,790
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Albert Einstein
Virut Panchabuse
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$13,422
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Foglia - '643' Fable
Elio Martinelli
Design - 43 x 46 x 46 cm Design - 16.9 x 18.1 x 18.1 inch
$1,342
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Artemisia Fine Art
Fine Art Drawings - 54.9 x 54.9 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 21.6 x 21.6 x 2 inch
$1,170
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Dervis Akdemir
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$238
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Aiiroh
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$1,007
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$4,870
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Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
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$2,606
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$5,022
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!