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Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 31.8 x 24.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.5 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
€1,726
Two Halves Make A Whole Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 9.1 inch
€184
A canter a bailar
Marcello Cid Saint Jean
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€480
Reveiller White
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Sculpture - 82 x 74 x 79 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 29.1 x 31.1 inch
€10,738
Chinese Interior #20
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 49 x 42 cm Photography - 19.3 x 16.5 inch
€1,800
Chinese Interior #48
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
€1,800
Chinese Interior #36
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
€1,800
Delirio Exótico #11
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,438
Delirio Exótico #9
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,438
Delirio Exótico #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
€1,438
Série : Pièces de mer de Castoul
Manfred Paul
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
€1,800
Migration
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
Retrato 2
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
€1,342
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (5)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,840
Objekt #2. Serrasalmus (2)
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 110 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
€2,840
Tiger’s skin
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.9 inch
€5,000
Sailing around Greenland
Ivana Olbricht
Painting - 99.1 x 99.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39 x 39 x 0.8 inch
€2,790
Otherworldly IV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
€2,014
The clearest image of thoughts
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
€3,624
Raining with sunshine
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€2,896
Nomads of the rainforest
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 76.2 x 182.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 72 x 1.5 inch
€2,162
Sweet shades of memory XXVI
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
€2,877
Superluminal #44
Corinne Natel
Painting - 121.9 x 90.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 35.8 x 1.5 inch
€2,562
When the desert blooms, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Andrada Anghel
Painting - 106.7 x 106.7 x 3.6 cm Painting - 42 x 42 x 1.4 inch
€2,429
Le QG de carton.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 101.5 x 87 x 4 cm Painting - 40 x 34.3 x 1.6 inch
€1,583
Squat de pêche à Ducos.
Foucaud Stéphane
Painting - 105 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
€1,750
Fibonacci Fragment IV
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 54 x 75 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 29.5 x 3.9 inch
€7,092
Fibonacci Fragment VII
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 31 x 82 x 26 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 32.3 x 10.2 inch
€8,636
Fibonacci Fragment V
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 78 x 75 x 19 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 29.5 x 7.5 inch
€8,703
Fibonacci Fragment II
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 101 x 40 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
€8,473
Fibonacci Fragment I
Desa Vlahutin
Sculpture - 78 x 72 x 31 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 28.3 x 12.2 inch
€8,283
White Top 40, Red Bottom 12
Anna Celie Nastasia Meyer
Sculpture - 63 x 20 x 19 cm Sculpture - 24.8 x 7.9 x 7.5 inch
€5,130
Imaginativ View III
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,130
Imaginativ View II
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,130
Imaginativ View I
Carita Schmidt
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
€5,130
Creation 5, The Tree of life
Liubov Kolbina
Painting - 119 x 119 x 4 cm Painting - 46.9 x 46.9 x 1.6 inch
€10,250
Midnight Mystics
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,914
Mystical Marriage #2
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,914
Mystical Marriage #1
Corinne Lisa Costello
Painting - 121 x 97 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
€5,914
El encanto de un foxterrier disecado
Iñigo Navarro
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Et le volcan s'endort
Muriel Paul
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
€1,100
Carnaval des animaux
Patrick Moya
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
€1,500
Two Circles
Gudmundur Sigurdsson
Painting - 101.5 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 40 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
€10,250
Grande Lutte Chinoise 1
François Garros
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
€4,600
Michelin China - Blue Dragon
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 28.5 x 27 x 24 cm Sculpture - 11.2 x 10.6 x 9.4 inch
€4,500
Codes esthétiques 2380
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 60 x 40 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 inch
€700
Codes esthétiques 1127
Konstantin Kornakov
Photography - 40 x 60 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 inch
€700
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!