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![Painting, Visiting, Alexander Shandor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190490_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dynamique de l'équilibre, Florence Boré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2204597_1_grid.jpg)
Dynamique de l'équilibre
Florence Boré
Painting - 107 x 74 x 0.5 cm Painting - 42.1 x 29.1 x 0.2 inch
$4,026
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "Cat Country", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174152_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "Cat Country"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 90 x 55 x 1.8 cm Painting - 35.4 x 21.7 x 0.7 inch
$2,226
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Antique games.. A look through time 2
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
![Photography, Misty Cathedral, Antoine Gaussin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190061_1_grid.jpg)
Misty Cathedral
Antoine Gaussin
Photography - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$8,388
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Oceani Mentali n°4
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$391
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Ondine
Eric Sanger Monteros
Photography - 60 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
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Etel - série Paysage de bord de mer de Bretagne
Jacqueline Clermont
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$380
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Companions Crossing
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 48.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 19 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
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![Sculpture, Série Les Mignons - Sculpture Raku animal marin, Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199672_1_grid.jpg)
Série Les Mignons - Sculpture Raku animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 15 x 25 x 9 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 9.8 x 3.5 inch
$492
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Warped reality - Conceptual science art collection
Anastasia Vasilyeva
Painting - 130 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
![Painting, Mes petits bonheurs B, Aude Herlédan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1731615_1_grid.jpg)
Mes petits bonheurs B
Aude Herlédan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,711
![Print, Rue Gérard Deschamps, Issoudun, Jacques Villeglé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344963_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Urban structure 2, Alessandra Bisi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/434634_1_grid.jpg)
Urban structure 2
Alessandra Bisi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,628
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Sonate crépusculaire
Bernard Gaulbert
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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Ours polaire assis (pm) 7/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 37 x 25 x 22 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.8 x 8.7 inch
$8,053
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![Painting, Break the silence, Isabelle Scheltjens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201918_1_grid.jpg)
Break the silence
Isabelle Scheltjens
Painting - 144 x 112 x 4.5 cm Painting - 56.7 x 44.1 x 1.8 inch
$21,810
![Painting, Une touche de modernité, Eric Munsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1232019_1_grid.jpg)
Une touche de modernité
Eric Munsch
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,174
![Photography, Oceani Mentali n°6, Luca Izzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198254_1_grid.jpg)
Oceani Mentali n°6
Luca Izzo
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$391 $352
![Photography, Oceani Mentali n°3, Luca Izzo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198245_1_grid.jpg)
Oceani Mentali n°3
Luca Izzo
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.4 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$391
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Personajes en blanco y negro
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$677
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All Things Begin and End in Eternity
Carrie Graber
Print - 101.6 x 38.1 cm Print - 40 x 15 inch
$1,125
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Smoky Clouds in Lake and Mountains
Zhize Lv
Painting - 69 x 34.5 cm Painting - 27.2 x 13.6 inch
$450
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![Painting, Elegance unfolding, Marieta Martirosyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172769_1_grid.jpg)
Elegance unfolding
Marieta Martirosyan
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$999
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![Painting, Abstract 22142, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1764357_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Abstract 22124, Alex Senchenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1758711_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract 22124
Alex Senchenko
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,655
![Photography, Nocturnal, Amrita Bilimoria](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211920_1_grid.jpg)
Nocturnal
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$3,100
![Fine Art Drawings, Birthday Gift, Guillaume Piot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211044_1_grid.jpg)
Birthday Gift
Guillaume Piot
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$224
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![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing 427, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126646_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing 427
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 58 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$671
![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing 426, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126631_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing 426
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 58 x 41 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.8 x 16.1 x 0.4 inch
$671
![Fine Art Drawings, Composition No. 385, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589058_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 385
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$839
![Painting, Composition No. 323, Sumit Mehndiratta](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1534263_1_grid.jpg)
Composition No. 323
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12 x 12 x 0 inch
$783
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Drawing 335
Sumit Mehndiratta
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 56 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$783
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Composition No.252
Sumit Mehndiratta
Painting - 63 x 41 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24.8 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$559
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No regret
Cynthia Coulombe-Bégin
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$3,750
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Santorini Magic
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,152
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10th Anniversary
André Saraiva
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 18.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.3 inch
$2,237
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Soft abstraction VI
Tamara Bakhshinyan
Painting - 100 x 150 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.4 inch
$2,908
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Late Night IV
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14 x 11 x 0.2 inch
$2,500
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!