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Composition abstraite Ref AB0765
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 38 x 57 cm Painting - 15 x 22.4 inch
$1,357
Composition abstraite Ref AB0754
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,583
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0715
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 56 x 75 cm Painting - 22 x 29.5 inch
$1,923
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0554
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 110 x 75 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.5 inch
$2,149
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0488
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 50 x 65 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,120
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0436
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,583
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0314
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,583
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0313
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 65 x 50 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,583
By your side
Luise Juliana Ellerbrock
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,549
Niño frente al espejo 1
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,725
Liquid mirror, part 2.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Simple Elegance No. 1
Rya Seifert
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$1,549
Io vivo
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$430
Tu manques
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
Pourtant tu es là
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
Nos célébrations
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
Paranoia
Neishaly Narvaez Gonzalez
Painting - 30 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Paysage de chine sur des radeaux en bambou
Ellis Zbinden
Painting - 47 x 67 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$12,214
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$237
White stripes - 3d textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
White seascape minimalism 3d textured abstract objects nature
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
Waves - 3D white
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
3D white waves in the ocean
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
3D White abstract strips landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
3D White geometric abstraction
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
White tree branches
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 119 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 46.9 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
White snow seascape 3D
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,393
White reflection
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
White reflection
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
3D White abstract landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,958
White seascape in 3D
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
3D White snow abstraction - textured minimalism
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,524
Mémoire du Temps n°1
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,086
Tête 3
Lætitia Disone
Fine Art Drawings - 23.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 6.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,018
Tête 2
Lætitia Disone
Fine Art Drawings - 23.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 6.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,018
Miniatures
Lætitia Disone
Fine Art Drawings - 23.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 6.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,018
Sun rays - triptych
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$750
Matiere n°2 série VII
Mario Henrique
Painting - 120 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,541
Enrose me
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Common Tern - Sterna hirundo
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$237
Black-Headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 46 x 70 cm Photography - 18.1 x 27.6 inch
$305
Schoal of fish
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$339
Delirium Tremens
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 130 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,785
Sans titre
Serge Plagnol
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$565
Sans titre
Serge Plagnol
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$565
Feuilles
Serge Plagnol
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$565
John Lennon, NYC T-shirt, 1974
Bob Gruen
Print - 137.2 x 101.6 x 5.1 cm Print - 54 x 40 x 2 inch
$7,200
Un instant de réflexion - Abstraction
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$599
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!