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![Painting, Isla 1, Charlotte Seuntjens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140174_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition pour les JO, Wolf Vostell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/21323_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Universe, Jenny Bach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2106252_1_grid.jpg)
![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
$2,013
![Design, Chandelier, Fontana Arte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970652_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Extrapolation 4, Guillaume Lachapelle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1954743_1_grid.jpg)
Extrapolation 4
Guillaume Lachapelle
Sculpture - 22.9 x 17.8 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 9 x 7 x 4 inch
$2,125
![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
$1,007
![Painting, Cold Summits Vision, Gudmundur Sigurdsson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320657_1_grid.jpg)
Cold Summits Vision
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 60.5 x 60.5 x 4 cm Painting - 23.8 x 23.8 x 1.6 inch
$5,201
![Print, Leaves, Eric Sanders](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200696_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Index, Luc Arrignon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162212_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Salt, Val Hudson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2143858_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Les jouets du philosophe, Christophe Vilar](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142040_1_grid.jpg)
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
$2,237 $2,013
![Print, Sea edge, April Gornik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/21147_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Miniflash Table Lamp, Joe Colombo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087679_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Brave new world, Yelda Inecik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2016267_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Smoke Tunnel, Sean Gannon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1998825_1_grid.jpg)
![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
$1,790
![Design, Four Wall Applique, Sergio Mazza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970664_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Maternité, Emmanuelle Tenailleau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1802709_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Präsenz #8, Simone Thiele](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1583979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Plague Doctors new reality, Karen Lesley Chappelow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1504206_1_grid.jpg)
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
$3,733
![Painting, Runway, Helina Menning](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488357_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L'infinito in un gesto, Morena Marini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1469502_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Slap the Antarctic, Laso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145806_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Composition pour les JO, Robert Barry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/21311_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Blue pond, Katharine Weber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2074044_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Yume. Dream, Léon Kiddo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2026941_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Dasonomia C2, Paul Anton](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1556373_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Santa's beard, Uros Nedeljkovic](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1433319_1_grid.jpg)
Santa's beard
Uros Nedeljkovic
Painting - 130 x 180 x 1.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 0.7 inch
$4,306
![Print, Reine de Sabah, Erte Tirtoff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177437_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Fragmento II, Carlos Andrade](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152083_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Subconscious, Gaetano Pergamo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2058771_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Apres l'orage, Danielle Launay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1998066_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter, Mariam Odishvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967646_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Tension Blanche, Elio Spilotros](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730196_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Painting research III, Hongyu Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678857_1_grid.jpg)
Painting research III
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$5,369
![Painting, Shifting, Verena Kloss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1385472_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dark Nomad, Karla Carranza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320492_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Woman, Simon Goldberg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/892524_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Territoire gris, Eugenia Jaeger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/275254_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Find the middle pt1, Armah](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173927_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ohne Titel / without title, Gerd Kanz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154990_1_grid.jpg)
Ohne Titel / without title
Gerd Kanz
Painting - 24 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$693
![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
$1,342
![Sculpture, David Bowie Bunny, Bruno Boffa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2047461_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Minimal Chaos 2, Nicolas Delprat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1724910_1_grid.jpg)
Minimal Chaos 2
Nicolas Delprat
Painting - 194 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 76.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,480
![Painting, Street font, Eko 1](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1555470_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sea 2, Kira Behnert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1267830_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tuneis, Gilberto Perin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/126730_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Scream, Nemesis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1142577_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Naren, René Romero Schuler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1136388_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nemo propheta in patria, Derek Overfield](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050359_1_grid.jpg)
Nemo propheta in patria
Derek Overfield
Painting - 152.4 x 139.7 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 55 x 2 inch
$2,045
![Design, Artistic colorful vase, Jiri Beranek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963290_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Vintage Plate from the Series of Church Domes Cupole d'Italia, Piero Fornasetti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1673982_1_grid.jpg)
Vintage Plate from the Series of Church Domes Cupole d'Italia
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 24.5 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm Design - 9.6 x 9.6 x 1 inch
$1,118
![Print, Tre linee con arabesco n. 368, Giorgio Griffa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1585008_1_grid.jpg)
Tre linee con arabesco n. 368
Giorgio Griffa
Print - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$447
![Photography, Hydrocarbure, Stéphane Martin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/924714_1_grid.jpg)
Hydrocarbure
Stéphane Martin
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.04 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$168
![Print, Restitutio, Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177738_1_grid.jpg)
Restitutio
Vygandas Šimbelis (Das Vegas)
Print - 42.5 x 32 x 4 cm Print - 16.7 x 12.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Mountain n°6, Jil Joannin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140763_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Ondé "Sable", Christian Renonciat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135502_1_grid.jpg)
Ondé "Sable"
Christian Renonciat
Sculpture - 100 x 150 x 15 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 59.1 x 5.9 inch
$20,132
![Print, Secuencias a dos, Ana Pérez Pereda](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1963617_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstrait Ref BDNW8099, Lutka Pink](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606176_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Invité au repas 15, Roger Decaux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1407777_1_grid.jpg)
Invité au repas 15
Roger Decaux
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$1,007
![Fine Art Drawings, Face de tarte, Henrik Jacob](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/848886_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Telltale, Solomon Jamy Brown](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/564427_1_grid.jpg)
Telltale
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.05 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,285
![Painting, Aux abords de la maison, Francois Priser](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165489_1_grid.jpg)
Aux abords de la maison
Francois Priser
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,684 $2,416
![Sculpture, Sans titre, Piero Cipolat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160397_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Girls with a flower, Luigi Bompard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1689930_1_grid.jpg)
Girls with a flower
Luigi Bompard
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$738
![Fine Art Drawings, Ngor, Ndoye Douts](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1641678_1_grid.jpg)
Ngor
Ndoye Douts
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
![Design, Little Cloud Vase, Friends With You](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488717_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Empreinte minerale 5, Roland Moreau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455831_1_grid.jpg)
Empreinte minerale 5
Roland Moreau
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
![Print, Fight then chill, Milan Sanka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1248855_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Path, Oshi Rabin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1079169_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, #6789LV, Will $treet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/494332_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Opulence, Aurélien Guiho](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1914771_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lady from the past, Eliana Barbosa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589583_1_grid.jpg)
Lady from the past
Eliana Barbosa
Photography - 30.5 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 12 x 12 x 1 inch
$615
![Painting, Golden abstract, Tanya Stefanovich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1549638_1_grid.jpg)
Golden abstract
Tanya Stefanovich
Painting - 71.1 x 88.9 x 2 cm Painting - 28 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,130
![Painting, Daisy, Monica](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1465389_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Songe d'une nuit d'été, Marie Tissot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1423977_1_grid.jpg)
Songe d'une nuit d'été
Marie Tissot
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Photography, On se tape un hamburger, Florence Le Van](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1361871_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, 2 women with bouquet of roses, Frantisek Drtikol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171764_1_grid.jpg)
2 women with bouquet of roses
Frantisek Drtikol
Photography - 26 x 19 cm Photography - 10.2 x 7.5 inch
$1,342
![Sculpture, Quatre quadrilatères 508, Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152143_1_grid.jpg)
Quatre quadrilatères 508
Anneke Klein-Kranenbarg
Sculpture - 25 x 25 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 9.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,342
![Print, Sin titulo, Chema Madoz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1933257_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, La prière, Lidia Kostanek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1791117_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ibiza meadow flower, Barry Flanagan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731453_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Honey Ant Dreaming - - EDA-JC2087/22, Janice Kngwarreye Clarke](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681440_1_grid.jpg)
Honey Ant Dreaming - - EDA-JC2087/22
Janice Kngwarreye Clarke
Painting - 100 x 146 cm Painting - 39.4 x 57.5 inch
$2,125
![Print, Venc IV, Jean-Charles Blais](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1529079_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, El abrazo I, Pere Bennàssar Obrador](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1473894_1_grid.jpg)
El abrazo I
Pere Bennàssar Obrador
Sculpture - 95 x 48 x 33 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 18.9 x 13 inch
$4,994
![Painting, Heartland, Ford Crull](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1023996_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Another hard day, Ronex Ahimbisibwe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/959763_1_grid.jpg)
Another hard day
Ronex Ahimbisibwe
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,622
![Print, Still life, Hannah Collins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/800295_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sous le réverbère, Jean-Louis Toutain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/639072_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Ballet Series II, Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172471_1_grid.jpg)
Ballet Series II
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$772
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!