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Pépite de rêve - Neige 1
Anany
Sculpture - 9.5 x 10.5 x 0.3 cm Sculpture - 3.7 x 4.1 x 0.1 inch
$255
What flows, grows
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 70 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,553
De force et de dentelle
Ledentelier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,998
Escape From Brooklyn
Brad Nuorala
Painting - 122.6 x 93.3 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.3 x 36.7 x 1.5 inch
$3,108
Crâne
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 20.9 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$89
Rainbow Unicorn Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 38 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$296
Binge Watcher David
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 5.5 inch
$399
A large heart iconostasis-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 240 x 840 x 3 cm Painting - 94.5 x 330.7 x 1.2 inch
$88,798 $79,918
Shadow and light (Podium)
Dima Filatov
Painting - 73 x 122 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 48 x 0.2 inch
$755
N° 1233 Haïfa. Mont Carmel.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Divas de Jazz #2
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,054
N° 1117 Belgrade 14. Eglise orthodoxe de Saint-Sava A
R. Cavalié
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$555
The artist (F.U.A.I.)
Michael Grine
Painting - 76.2 x 58.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 23 x 0.1 inch
$500
Mademoiselle Colette
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$610
Michelangelo’s David Bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$232
N° 1135 Marquis(e) et Marquis(e) de La Côtinière.
R. Cavalié
Painting - 41 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
$721
Flower poem: magnolia
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$450
Flower poem: a white butterfly
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$450
Course aux contamines
Adrianna MJW
Painting - 88 x 116 x 5 cm Painting - 34.6 x 45.7 x 2 inch
$8,880
Recette Brioche de foie gras
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$122
The Goddess Of The Hunt Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 44 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
$167
Ludwig van Beethoven
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$167
Head / Pinokio
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$6,327
Crâne
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$322
Dégustation des grands vins de Bordeaux
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 32 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
$122
Scrooge McDuck Money Maker tag
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,550
Sneaker Slam: Jordan & Basketball pop art sculpture
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 22 x 20 x 3 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$425
Serge Gainsbourg 01
Jean-Michel Lourenço
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,054
Couple noir et blanc
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 51 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$444
Contemporary man
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 65 x 87 x 47 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 34.3 x 18.5 inch
$6,660
Chemins de croix
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
$3,496
Alphaville
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.5 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0.2 inch
$3,496
Anonimo#15
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 105 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,220
I don't know why it's seems so funny
David Pinegar
Photography - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$19,202
The Veiled Vestal Virgin Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 26 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 10.2 x 5.9 inch
$283
D11
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$166
D10
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$166
D8
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$166
Rising to the starscape
Marta Zawadzka
Painting - 130 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,218
White is golden is golden is white
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,272
There’s a place in my heart
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$5,272
The Dark Side Of Athena Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 55 x 37 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 14.6 x 7.9 inch
$322
David The Golden Boy
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$296
Ray Charles (noir & blanc)
Noël Granger
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.4 inch
$100 $85
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!