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![Fine Art Drawings, Passages N°107, Nagsoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008758_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Torrent64_0802, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940826_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent64_0802
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 41 x 60.6 x 5 cm Photography - 16.1 x 23.9 x 2 inch
$1,007
![Photography, Torrent48_0763, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940814_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent48_0763
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.7 x 60.6 x 5 cm Photography - 28.6 x 23.9 x 2 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Torrent52_0773, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940811_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent52_0773
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 60.6 x 72.7 x 5 cm Photography - 23.9 x 28.6 x 2 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Torrent51_0770, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940808_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent51_0770
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 60.6 x 72.7 x 5 cm Photography - 23.9 x 28.6 x 2 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Torrent43_0742, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1940793_1_grid.jpg)
Torrent43_0742
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 72.7 x 60.6 x 5 cm Photography - 28.6 x 23.9 x 2 inch
$1,790
![Photography, Spiagge bianche study II, Antoine Rose](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1934325_1_grid.jpg)
Spiagge bianche study II
Antoine Rose
Photography - 88 x 200 x 1 cm Photography - 34.6 x 78.7 x 0.4 inch
$14,093
![Fine Art Drawings, 4 petites mains, Nagsoul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1914261_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Dirty magic, Michael Alan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1907148_1_grid.jpg)
Dirty magic
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.5 x 0.04 inch
$1,790
![Painting, Areia, Mia Civita](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1388295_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Figure_1, Agnes von Rogister](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319487_1_grid.jpg)
Figure_1
Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,734
![Painting, Paysage, Plamen Rusev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/829884_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Wege und Spuren #21, Stefanie Rogge](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147515_1_grid.jpg)
Wege und Spuren #21
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
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![Print, Città bianca, Luigi Mainolfi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1921263_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Warmin Poles - Océan et fonds marins, Janina Rossiter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1749810_1_grid.jpg)
Warmin Poles - Océan et fonds marins
Janina Rossiter
Painting - 81 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,063
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![Print, Enso: A World Filled With silkscreen, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1483443_1_grid.jpg)
Enso: A World Filled With silkscreen
Takashi Murakami
Print - 46.8 x 39.8 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.4 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,964
![Print, Enso: Facing the Pitch-black Void, Takashi Murakami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1483434_1_grid.jpg)
Enso: Facing the Pitch-black Void
Takashi Murakami
Print - 46.8 x 39.8 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.4 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,964
![Painting, Electric silk, Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448406_1_grid.jpg)
Electric silk
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,622
![Painting, Liquid mirror, part 3., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448388_1_grid.jpg)
Liquid mirror, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,622
![Painting, Liquid mirror, part 1., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448358_1_grid.jpg)
Liquid mirror, part 1.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,622
![Painting, Unmet horizons, part 4., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448349_1_grid.jpg)
Unmet horizons, part 4.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,693
![Painting, Unmet horizons, part 3., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448340_1_grid.jpg)
Unmet horizons, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,658
![Painting, Unmet horizons, part 2., Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1448334_1_grid.jpg)
Unmet horizons, part 2.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,747
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![Painting, Flat Layer Multi-Color, Mattia Novello](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1236990_1_grid.jpg)
Flat Layer Multi-Color
Mattia Novello
Painting - 111.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 44 x 44 x 2 inch
$7,500
![Photography, Jenga, Alexandra Haasz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1018167_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tengri, Alexandra Haasz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1018164_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172278_1_grid.jpg)
Skull in the Meditation with Neon Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$794
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Mémoire du temps n°15
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$872
![Sculpture, Le sauteur, Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148549_1_grid.jpg)
Le sauteur
Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga
Sculpture - 18 x 20 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 7.9 x 4.3 inch
$268
![Painting, Mémoire du temps n°55, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138900_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire du temps n°55
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$660
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![Painting, Abstract with red purple and gold 2, Tiny de Bruin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1951980_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
![Painting, Eating frogs while watching ufos, Palina Kasino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626171_1_grid.jpg)
Eating frogs while watching ufos
Palina Kasino
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,928
![Painting, Home is just a word, Palina Kasino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626162_1_grid.jpg)
Home is just a word
Palina Kasino
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,099
![Painting, Cottonlava, Palina Kasino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626159_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Intersections in black and white, Chuck Jones, PhD](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1623624_1_grid.jpg)
Intersections in black and white
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,099
![Painting, The sky is still there, Lars Fredriksson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1623489_1_grid.jpg)
The sky is still there
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,599
![Painting, La haie, Alphée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606899_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Project 9, Seyer Merzaie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606509_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Days Departed Impasse #15, Joseph Di Bella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1592745_1_grid.jpg)
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,099
![Painting, Splash, David Lopez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1445967_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cacao, Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1395903_1_grid.jpg)
Cacao
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$660
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![Painting, Infinite Footprints I, Esther Medir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1343307_1_grid.jpg)
Infinite Footprints I
Esther Medir
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,678
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![Painting, Winter Symphony, H-Nguyen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/985569_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, The Illustrated book, Henry Moore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142858_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Whispers of time, Zakhar Shevchuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134225_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Red Mountains, Simon Findlay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128864_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Victory, Agboola Oladapo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000379_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Dans le mille - série Semi-abstrait, Jackie Spaeter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1633170_1_grid.jpg)
Dans le mille - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,107
![Painting, Lumière d'Asie - série Semi-abstrait, Jackie Spaeter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1633167_1_grid.jpg)
Lumière d'Asie - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,107
![Painting, Superman, David Walker](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1543086_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Amaranthus I Small, Angela Morris-Winmill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1484034_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Monolith Inscription, Hiroya Yamada](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1474653_1_grid.jpg)
Monolith Inscription
Hiroya Yamada
Painting - 41 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.1 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$1,837
![Painting, Fields.1, Joëlle Cabanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1369446_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Love, Light & Lines, Kamal Obat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194544_1_grid.jpg)
Love, Light & Lines
Kamal Obat
Photography - 60 x 49.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23.62 x 19.6 x 1 inch
$450
![Painting, Minimal Forms 02, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180315_1_grid.jpg)
Minimal Forms 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$650
![Painting, Dream, Medra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175826_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "The Inhabitants", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171128_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "The Inhabitants"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
![Painting, White Snowfall - 3D, textured, plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2161790_1_grid.jpg)
White Snowfall - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Love, Patricia Gadisseur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156801_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Graff N°2187 - XXL, Parscha Mirghawameddin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154171_1_grid.jpg)
Graff N°2187 - XXL
Parscha Mirghawameddin
Painting - 165 x 165 x 0.1 cm Painting - 65 x 65 x 0 inch
$1,342
![Painting, Renaissance, Clara Crespin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152338_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le coup de pied aux étoiles, Antoine Josse](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148359_1_grid.jpg)
Le coup de pied aux étoiles
Antoine Josse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,908
![Photography, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, NYC 1988, Bob Gruen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2138260_1_grid.jpg)
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, NYC 1988
Bob Gruen
Photography - 35.6 x 27.9 x 5.1 cm Photography - 14 x 11 x 2 inch
$1,500
![Painting, Cheveux d'encre - Amour 5, Feng Kaixuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2086170_1_grid.jpg)
Cheveux d'encre - Amour 5
Feng Kaixuan
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,013
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!