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Promenade au parc
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 62 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,067
Bride for one day
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$674
Carton horizon
Christian Renonciat
Sculpture - 40 x 93 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 36.6 x 2.2 inch
$8,428
Pez Dispenser 1984 (after Jean-Michel Basquiat)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$281
Watercolor on photo #7
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
$1,124
Serie Dones
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$11,237
Maternity
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 114 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$11,237
Medusas’ Protective Gaze
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$262
Minotaure aux tétines
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$472
False Memory
Sergiu-Bogdan Roman
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$4,326
The white painting
Kitikong Tilokwattanotai
Painting - 123 x 84 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 33.1 x 1.6 inch
$12,360
Paseíllo al mediodía, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,821
Alberto López Simón. Las Ventas, Madrid.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,821
Chimigramme 26/8/77 VI „Minimal Photography“
Pierre Cordier
Photography - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$19,102
Abstraction géométrique numéro 10
Jean-Pierre Rives
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,057
Drive and motivation
Ivan Gette
Painting - 140 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$16,776
Happiness with two suns
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$14,608
Co-owners in a meeting
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$42,138
Breakfast in paradise
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$47,756
Impro - Vision
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$43,823
Fundamental balance
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$43,823
The merchant of happiness
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$43,261
My neighbors told me
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$29,777
Head of a woman
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$562
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
$170
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
$196
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,528
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$730
Red and Pink Song of Freedom
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 22 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$539
Cesare pavese looking at his suicide
Parimah Avani
Painting - 29.5 x 40.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.9 x 0.1 inch
$427
Sowing revolutionary flowers
Parimah Avani
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 40.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 15.9 x 0.1 inch
$438
Please Call Dr. Horder Sylvia Plath's last Notes
Parimah Avani
Painting - 29.5 x 40.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.6 x 15.9 x 0.1 inch
$449
Red, Yellow, Pink Roses of Revolution
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$337
Silvery song of resistance
Parimah Avani
Painting - 21 x 28.5 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.3 x 11.2 x 0.1 inch
$551
Dolce Vita 16
Aimee Hillman
Photography - 61 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 24 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$2,354
Landscape in Washi
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 20.32 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
$250
Fix you 1
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$427
You
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$427
The bitch is back
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$427
L'ego
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$427
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!