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Red and Pink Song of Freedom
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 22 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$536
Sowing revolutionary flowers
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 40.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 15.9 x 0.1 inch
$435
Please Call Dr. Horder Sylvia Plath's last Notes
Parimah Avani
Painting - 29.5 x 40.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.9 x 0.1 inch
$447
The Family Scheme
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 25.5 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$625
Red, Yellow, Pink Roses of Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$335
Silvery song of resistance
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$547
Blizzard 06, Jura
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$558
Meeting with her Majesty, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$558
His Majesty the Pelican, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$558
Evening dancer 02, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$558
Evening dancer 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$558
Evening dancer 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$558
Pink or black 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$558
Dolce Vita 16
Aimee Hillman
Photography - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$2,355
Fix you 1
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
You
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$424
The bitch is back
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$424
L'ego
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$424
L’invitation au voyage III
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
L’invitation au voyage II
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
L’invitation au voyage I
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
L’important c’est d’aimer
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
Hero
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$424
Kalaallit Nunaat 09-09
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,340
Kalaallit Nunaat 06-06
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,340
Kalaallit Nunaat 04-04
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,340
1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Verticales Verticals
Kim HAN
Painting - 57 x 76.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 30.1 x 0.1 inch
$10,605
1980 KIM HAN MMCA Museum Collection Geometrical Abstraction Squares Quadrillage
Kim HAN
Painting - 76.5 x 56.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30.1 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch
$10,605
Gestures (Stranger than Paradise)
Stefanie Schneider
Photography - 207 x 155 x 0.3 cm Photography - 81.5 x 61 x 0.1 inch
$29,023
L'Hirondelle - Abstraction et matière - série entre imaginaire et réel
Marie Mercier dite MALCQ
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$391
Mémoire du temps n°67
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$290
Mémoire du temps n°66
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$290
Mémoire du temps n°59
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$290
Onde vibratoire 2
Jean-François Contremoulin
Painting - 18 x 12 x 2 cm Painting - 7.1 x 4.7 x 0.8 inch
$179
The retention of memory
Kirill Basalaev
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,358
Mémoire du temps n°64
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$290
Mémoire du temps n°54
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$290
Ink album (Still life)
Zakhar Shevchuk
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$335
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$3,907
Dialogue 01
Matthieu Venot
Photography - 50 x 62.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 24.6 x 0 inch
$1,340
Mémoire du temps n° 37
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$246
Mémoire du temps n° 35
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$246
Mémoire du temps n°34
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$246
Mémoire du temps n°31
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$246
Grecian woman bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 39 x 22 x 16 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 8.7 x 6.3 inch
$118
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 35 x 23 x 25 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 9.1 x 9.8 inch
$190
Dante Alighieri bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 21 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 8.3 x 5.9 inch
$111
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,512
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$89
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$89
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$89
Bulle d'énergie série Coeur de Chamane
Aurore Lyon
Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.6 inch
$89
Expetaction
Paraskevas Papadopoulos
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$8,170
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!