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![Print, A un passo dal cielo, Walter Valentini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1728327_1_grid.jpg)
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Composition No.144
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 94 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,622
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Detrás de máscaras
Patricia Restrepo
Painting - 60.96 x 50.8 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1.2 inch
$5,984
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Reflections of Modernity: Abstract Impressions at Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Daniel Holfeld
Photography - 20 x 30 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 inch
$671
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Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$4,127
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Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (7)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
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Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (6)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
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Torrent36_8617
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
$805
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Kermesse
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 65 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
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Place Within Reach 24
Petr Strnad
Painting - 70.2 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$503
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Place Within Reach 23
Petr Strnad
Painting - 70.2 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$503
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Accords et suspensions II
Jean-Claude Atzori
Painting - 65 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
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Butterfly Park 10
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 65 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,013
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Abstract Landscape 24.08.21
Viktoria Ganhao
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
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I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle (#04, from the series Blank card)
Gfeller + Hellsgård
Painting - 200 x 150 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 inch
$7,158
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Dalmatian pelican - Pelecanus crispus
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 37 x 50 cm Photography - 14.6 x 19.7 inch
$235
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Sudden view from the window at night
Tanya Sviatlichnaya
Painting - 55.5 x 38 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.9 x 15 x 0 inch
$895
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Alter Ego Token Candelabro
Alessandro Piano
Sculpture - 26 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$447
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The little white butterflies
Alla Grande
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,237
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Andalouse White (LC77)
Landry Clément
Sculpture - 67 x 23.5 x 4.6 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 9.3 x 1.8 inch
$2,192
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Serie Cuerpos Escuetos
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 190 x 190 x 1 cm Painting - 74.8 x 74.8 x 0.4 inch
$7,051
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Cenizas y diamantes XIX
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Dark Materials VI
James Sparshatt
Photography - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,906
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Le désenchantement
Emmanuelle Vroelant
Painting - 80 x 160 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 63 x 2 inch
$8,948
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17 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
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Hommage à Picasso et à Fernand Léger, aquagravure originale en noir et blanc
Erró
Print - 57 x 81 x 1 cm Print - 22.4 x 31.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,007
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L'aventurière
Christiane Simon-Roques
Painting - 100 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
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Le bouquet de l’esperance
Valérie Dragacci
Painting - 55 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
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![Print, Le chat sauvage, Pierre Alechinsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094699_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mots croisés 4, Jean-Claude Byandb](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1768014_1_grid.jpg)
Mots croisés 4
Jean-Claude Byandb
Photography - 85 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$682
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Aquellos armarios tinosos
Salvador Dali
Print - 23.5 x 17 x 0.2 cm Print - 9.3 x 6.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,286
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Peace & Freedom Dove (Aluminium Panel)
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 61 x 3 cm Print - 24 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$1,118
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Lionel joue à Bacchus dans les vignes
Pierre Boulat
Photography - 24 x 36 x 0.3 cm Photography - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$727
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E=M love au carré - 2
In Love Street Art
Painting - 20 x 27.5 x 0.8 cm Painting - 7.9 x 10.8 x 0.3 inch
$615
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Composition No.148
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 94 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 37 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,622
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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!