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Eyes on me custom skate deck skateboard
Andrew Wallas
Painting - 22 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$953
Il gioco delle parti
Artisti Vari
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
Untitled 4 (Nature Takes Back series)
Stela Vasileva
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 inch
$740
Dear Ugly Future
Volkan Aslan
Sculpture - 55 x 27 x 34 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 10.6 x 13.4 inch
$6,727
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,242
Monster
Albert Decaris
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$650
Daily Life
Kate Wilczynski
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$673
Peak Mid Winter #1
Jonathan Moore
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.01 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$994
Encre I
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$628
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,563
Women
Fausto delle Chiaie
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 59.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 23.5 x 0.1 inch
$561
Homeland
Anet Duncan
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 2.8 inch
$762
Portraits de mains
Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
$617
Flower Field Touch of Gold
Ans Pullens
Painting - 95 x 75 x 8 cm Painting - 37.4 x 29.5 x 3.1 inch
$6,166
This Wallpaper is not Avaiable
Chiara Santoro
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$561
A longing no. 14
Joseph Adolphe
Painting - 203 x 182 x 4 cm Painting - 79.9 x 71.7 x 1.6 inch
$40,360
Mediterranean
Jag Jo Auguste Germain
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,009
Lesson about the cube
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 40 x 23 x 14 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.1 x 5.5 inch
$2,242
Sans Titre (DED463027)
Katsuko Kuroya
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$179
Looking for balance
Danielle Mano Bella
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,682
Blurry minds #2
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,882
Park Hoog Oostduin 14-09-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,622
Jeune indien jouant avec sa colombe
Sabrina & Roland Michaud
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
Pair of lamps in the style
Tommaso Barbi
Design - 38 x 50 x 20 cm Design - 15 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
$852
Ecoute au loin le TAM TAM de mon coeur qui vient vers toi
Lionel Sourisseau
Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$561
Floating
a Ee
Fine Art Drawings - 21.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
$4,897
Temps nouveaux
Yves Grandjean
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,906
Banksy in a can
Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
$667
Natura morta (Still life)
Gino Severini
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 13 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.1 inch
$11,772
American Rhapsody
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
Sans titre 393
Daniel Gonçalves
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,121
We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #1
Tran Trong Vu
Painting - 254 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 100 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,300
Un tit bout’ de nout’ berceau du peuplement - La grotte des premiers français Saint-Paul
Coryne Boyer
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
Invincible summer III
Sophie Mangelsen
Print - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$325 $293
L’univers de la persécution
Johannes Gachnang
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.05 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$448
Contact color relief
Aurélie Trabaud
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 4.2 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 1.7 inch
$3,588
Geometric Abstract Composition
Sante Monachesi
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$224
Into the love No.2
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 152.4 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 inch
$8,750
Mother and Child
Irene Pereyra
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 23 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
$336
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!