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Sin título (Un espacio en construcción)
Miquel Ponce
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$452
Bricks
Emily Redd
Fine Art Drawings - 26.7 x 62.2 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 inch
$250
And of love (a tributo to Banksy)
OneFake
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$283
Cruxifié couleur orchidée
Emilie Chauvel
Painting - 26 x 32 x 3.5 cm Painting - 10.2 x 12.6 x 1.4 inch
$1,018
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 2
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,131
Le pays des fées
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,428
Guy de Maupassant - portrait perfectionné
Valerio Adami
Print - 21 x 13 x 1 cm Print - 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.4 inch
$328
Rolex Daytona Silver Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$204
Awishama - Dueña de la coca. Cultura Wiwa, Colombia
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 181 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 71.3 x 0 inch
$7,690
Âlif - Clou cristal
Yazid Oulab
Sculpture - 15 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$7,803
Disco Night
Vakhtang Khelashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$3,393
Symphonie… (Expression libre)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,654
SOS Esquimau
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$338
Un esquimau dans le freezer
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$338
memories of the last winter
Elena Raceala
Photography - 200.7 x 133.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 79 x 52.5 x 0.1 inch
$735
Flying Les Paul
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 137 x 70 x 9 cm Sculpture - 53.9 x 27.6 x 3.5 inch
$24,880
Golden field 210710
Don Bishop
Painting - 91.4 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$3,800
Retro Jaws Nike Sneakers
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 15 x 25 x 8 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
$318
Le bois du cerf
Edouard Mazaré
Photography - 83 x 113 x 0.2 cm Photography - 32.7 x 44.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,488
Vaches d'appartement
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$338
Napoleon Bonaparte was in burning Moscow. 1812
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 68 x 104 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 40.9 x 0.8 inch
$21,000
Still life with plainair
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 75 x 87.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 34.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,500
It's a tie 2 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
No Strings Attached
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,410
Terra Nova (space ship)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,323
Four Clouds
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$2,940
Les voiliers de Saint-Tropez... (Esprit voile)
Olivier Messas
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,654
Sail II
Veronica Jurkowitsch
Sculpture - 110 x 43 x 15 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 16.9 x 5.9 inch
$16,115
Flower poem: Nayeon's mom's favorite flower
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$450
Flower poem: hiding
Jihun Ju
Photography - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$450
Passante dans un tombeau de la Vallée des Rois
Jean-Pierre Al Courty
Painting - 92 x 73 x 1 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,845
Still Life with a Broken Egg, Antwerp
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 inch
$12,000
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$368
De l'ombre surgit la lumière
Peggy Cardoso
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$3,393
Daydream
Joyce Fournier
Painting - 71.1 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 28 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$1,880 $1,410
Arbre Bistro 5
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$792
Arbre Bistro 4
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$792
Arbre Bistro 3
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$792
Arbre Bistro 2
Bernard Lassus
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 12 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.7 inch
$679
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!