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Esinulo Chiamaka Praise Chiamaka Praise
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
€3,150
Sin título (Un espacio en construcción)
Miquel Ponce
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
€400
Mapping the inner Journey
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€393
Mapping the inner journey #2
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
€393
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh-Ville, Hôtel Continental
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€650
Vintage roller
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 60 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
€450
Outside the enclosure
Dam Domido
Painting - 104 x 175 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.9 x 68.9 x 0 inch
€4,900 €3,920
The Space Between Us
Ties Ten Bosch
Sculpture - 175 x 125 x 4 cm Sculpture - 68.9 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
€5,100
L'anti-chambre du départ
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
€550
Sans titre
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 14.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 5.7 inch
€400
Maeduep: 4x5. Cushion/ Seat
WKND Lab
Design - 105.9 x 79.8 x 18.8 cm Design - 41.7 x 31.4 x 7.4 inch
€4,267
Contemporary portrait "Disco Club"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
€2,500
Grossert Michael - 1970 Musée des Sables Barcarés
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
€2,900
Camargo - Musée des Sables Barcarès
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 40 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
€2,900
Imagined destinations, Road sign ( Panneau indicateur )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 36 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€500
Rock Guitare by les Frères Guinet
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 99 x 35 x 8 cm Sculpture - 39 x 13.8 x 3.1 inch
€4,490
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 29 x 29 x 21 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 8.3 inch
€2,500
Bouquet de pivoines
Philippe Destors
Painting - 46 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,580
Path in the snow, Saint Julien du Pinet
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 108 x 161.8 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.7 x 1.2 inch
€4,295
People on the coast II
Yelda Inecik
Painting - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
€489
Meeting
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€299 €150
Bricks
Emily Redd
Fine Art Drawings - 26.7 x 62.2 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 inch
€239
It's a tie 2 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
No Strings Attached
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,900
70' - 80' My Generation
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€6,900
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 2
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
€1,000
Landscape in Washi
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 20.32 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
€239
Glisser sur les vagues de ses rêves
Didier Colomès
Painting - 25 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
€570
Le pays des fées
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
€4,800
Guy de Maupassant - portrait perfectionné
Valerio Adami
Print - 21 x 13 x 1 cm Print - 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.4 inch
€290
Awishama - Dueña de la coca. Cultura Wiwa, Colombia
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 181 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 71.3 x 0 inch
€6,800
Âlif - Clou cristal
Yazid Oulab
Sculpture - 15 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
€6,900
To live off of memories
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 27.5 x 22 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
€290
Water lily, Flower of purity
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 119.9 x 89.9 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€3,389
Morning on the lake
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€3,293
Disco Night
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
€3,000
Symphonie… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€5,000
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!