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![Painting, Patty, Maya Shay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1371852_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Camille Adra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/800421_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Paranoïd #11, David De Beyter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699339_1_grid.jpg)
Paranoïd #11
David De Beyter
Photography - 30 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$392
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Manufactura 3
Oriol Texidor
Photography - 40 x 50 x 7 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 2.8 inch
$1,413
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Decoration
Tako Chanchaleishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$617
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Grammature Di Colore (Color Weight)
Elio Marchegiani
Print - 47.5 x 65 x 0.2 cm Print - 18.7 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch
$314
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Guernicouille de Pine d'Assaut (Tryptique complet)
Mad Meg
Print - 65.5 x 144 cm Print - 25.8 x 56.7 inch
$1,121
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Un été gris-bleu - série Les Dames de la côte
Françoise Lucq
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,099
![Painting, Skiers XII (December), Ernesto Dick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/669150_1_grid.jpg)
Skiers XII (December)
Ernesto Dick
Painting - 23 x 44 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.1 x 17.3 x 0.1 inch
$2,018
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Signature 16
Catherine Cazau
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 45 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 17.7 inch
$594
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Beth Harmon II (The Queen’s Gambit)
Josie McCoy
Painting - 15 x 20 x 3 cm Painting - 5.9 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,110
![Sculpture, 8 actos de genuflexión, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963515_1_grid.jpg)
8 actos de genuflexión
Ana Pérez Pereda
Sculpture - 200 x 20 x 8 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch
$1,345
![Painting, Morgenster Tall Ship - Marine Art, Koorosh Nejad](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1843239_1_grid.jpg)
Morgenster Tall Ship - Marine Art
Koorosh Nejad
Painting - 80 x 145 x 4.1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 57.1 x 1.6 inch
$1,751
![Painting, Rievocazione michelangiolesca, Massimiliano Carisdeo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520127_1_grid.jpg)
Rievocazione michelangiolesca
Massimiliano Carisdeo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$673
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En attendant le jour
Xavier Jallais
Painting - 55 x 46 x 5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 2 inch
$1,626
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Bernard Noël](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171533_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Bernard Noël
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$897
![Painting, Jardin, Juan Li](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150545_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Le trait - 04, Ludovica Cholet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002626_1_grid.jpg)
Le trait - 04
Ludovica Cholet
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$673
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![Fine Art Drawings, S/T II, Yamandú Canosa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150409_1_grid.jpg)
S/T II
Yamandú Canosa
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,018
![Sculpture, Appareil photo blanc, Les Frères Guinet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113617_1_grid.jpg)
Appareil photo blanc
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 9 x 15 x 10 cm Sculpture - 3.5 x 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,794
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![Design, Serpente Floor Lamp, Elio Martinelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085855_1_grid.jpg)
Serpente Floor Lamp
Elio Martinelli
Design - 120 x 55 x 55 cm Design - 47.2 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch
$2,018
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Extrapolation 4
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 22.9 x 17.8 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 9 x 7 x 4 inch
$2,130
![Painting, No name, Painting, Oil on canvas, Asher Topel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1817559_1_grid.jpg)
No name, Painting, Oil on canvas
Asher Topel
Painting - 100.1 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,900
![Sculpture, El tigre y las cabras con retrete /le tigre et les chèvres avec toilettes, Julio Alonso Yañez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1462911_1_grid.jpg)
El tigre y las cabras con retrete /le tigre et les chèvres avec toilettes
Julio Alonso Yañez
Sculpture - 23 x 22 x 18 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 8.7 x 7.1 inch
$1,009
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Cold Summits Vision
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 60.5 x 60.5 x 4 cm Painting - 23.8 x 23.8 x 1.6 inch
$5,213
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Les jouets du philosophe
Christophe Vilar
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$2,242
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![Design, Metal and Pulegoso Glass Table Lamp, Poliarte Studio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970715_1_grid.jpg)
Metal and Pulegoso Glass Table Lamp
Poliarte Studio
Design - 11 x 16 x 16 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,794
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The Plague Doctors new reality
Karen Lesley Chappelow
Painting - 79 x 79 x 2 cm Painting - 31.1 x 31.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,742
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Santa's beard
Uros Nedeljkovic
Painting - 130 x 180 x 1.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.7 inch
$4,316
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![Sculpture, Fragmento II, Carlos Andrade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152083_1_grid.jpg)
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Subconscious
Gaetano Pergamo
Painting - 69.9 x 49.5 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.5 x 19.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,191
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Painting research III
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$5,381
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Woman
Simon Goldberg
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$336
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Ohne Titel / without title
Gerd Kanz
Painting - 24 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$695
![Photography, The classroom, Magnus Wahman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141551_1_grid.jpg)
The classroom
Magnus Wahman
Photography - 40 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,345
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!