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![Painting, She always remembers him, Reinaldo Chavez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1997223_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Roboclusion Pink Floyd, Vincent Sabatier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1780227_1_grid.jpg)
Roboclusion Pink Floyd
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
$1,174
![Painting, Breath of winter, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1549500_1_grid.jpg)
Breath of winter
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 54.9 x 119.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.6 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$2,150
![Design, Link - Tabouret, Reda Amalou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1529238_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cimes et racines / Anémone-Gentiana A, Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1463532_1_grid.jpg)
Cimes et racines / Anémone-Gentiana A
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 130 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,132
![Painting, Extase 1, Francis Moreau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455954_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/881703_1_grid.jpg)
Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$3,892
![Photography, Lounging In Verbier, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/872418_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, PL 8, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/603798_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Poolside Ladies, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175917_1_grid.jpg)
Poolside Ladies
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$3,467
![Painting, Landscape, Marilina Marchica](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170519_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape, Marilina Marchica](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170518_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mickey loves Dom Pérignon soup, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135499_1_grid.jpg)
Mickey loves Dom Pérignon soup
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Super Mario pop Dior, négatif, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135498_1_grid.jpg)
Super Mario pop Dior, négatif
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$895
![Painting, Sans titre 2, Julien Lebbihi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135483_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 3, Julien Lebbihi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135478_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sans titre 1, Julien Lebbihi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2135149_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Snoopy loves Barbie, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2115225_1_grid.jpg)
Snoopy loves Barbie
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,007
![Painting, G80049373C, Wo$h](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2090487_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dark Vador is a Jack Daniel's fan, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087667_1_grid.jpg)
Dark Vador is a Jack Daniel's fan
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Gaia 28, Jason Lincoln Jeffers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068011_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Stories #3, Edmund Sumner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1900110_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Exuberance, Karin Goeppert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858803_1_grid.jpg)
Exuberance
Karin Goeppert
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1.8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$2,000
![Painting, If I only could deceive you 4, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1857885_1_grid.jpg)
If I only could deceive you 4
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$2,060
![Painting, If I only could deceive you 9, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1853184_1_grid.jpg)
If I only could deceive you 9
Luca Brandi
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,140
![Painting, The rest of us 5, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852209_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, XXXL A beautiful escape, Susan Wooler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842561_1_grid.jpg)
XXXL A beautiful escape
Susan Wooler
Painting - 80 x 119.9 x 4.6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.8 inch
$1,392
![Painting, XXL late afternoon sunset, Susan Wooler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842162_1_grid.jpg)
XXL late afternoon sunset
Susan Wooler
Painting - 75.9 x 102.1 x 2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 40.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,212
![Painting, Some enchanted nights 3, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818837_1_grid.jpg)
Some enchanted nights 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,810
![Painting, You'll never be mine 7, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1817604_1_grid.jpg)
You'll never be mine 7
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,910
![Painting, Ferries wheel, Khrystyna Kozyuk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815411_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Spin that Door !, Akiza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/178276_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Falling in my garden, Claudie Baran](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1742799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chronometer series 1 Turbulence of Time, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1629036_1_grid.jpg)
Chronometer series 1 Turbulence of Time
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,118
![Painting, Cloud Structure, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rain is shaking pine trees, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628862_1_grid.jpg)
Rain is shaking pine trees
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,007
![Painting, And here they stand at night, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628859_1_grid.jpg)
And here they stand at night
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,007
![Painting, The Queen Elizabeth II, Patrick Cornée](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620405_1_grid.jpg)
The Queen Elizabeth II
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
![Painting, Some enchanted nights 3, Luca Brandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1549512_1_grid.jpg)
Some enchanted nights 3
Luca Brandi
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,810
![Photography, Skiers at Gstaad, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365804_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Sugarbush Skiing, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365768_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, St Moritz, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365675_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Zermatt Skiing, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1365534_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Lech Ice Bar, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364898_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364781_1_grid.jpg)
Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 cm Photography - 30 x 20 inch
$2,964
![Photography, Dining At The Eagle Club - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364766_1_grid.jpg)
Dining At The Eagle Club - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 61 x 50.8 cm Photography - 24 x 20 inch
$2,964
![Photography, Ice Bar, Slim Aarons](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1348857_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love Cures No.2, Xiao Ying Chen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1114143_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, White Horse, Marino Marini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/922311_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Campbell's N5, Aiiroh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/914979_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La fraîcheur du monde, Jean-Pierre Petit](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/317056_1_grid.jpg)
La fraîcheur du monde
Jean-Pierre Petit
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$671
![Print, Journal d'un graveur 3, Joan Miró](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/273628_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Horizon Carbone (7), Christophe Ruiz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176287_1_grid.jpg)
Horizon Carbone (7)
Christophe Ruiz
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
![Painting, Horizon Carbone, Christophe Ruiz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175268_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vue de ma fenetre, Antoinette](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174161_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Green Momentum, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170684_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Lemon Sparkle, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170683_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Howlite Memory, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170681_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Green Drizzle, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170680_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rising Falls, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170679_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dark Wisdom, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170677_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Falling Stars, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170676_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White Waves, Max Kulich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170675_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fumador hindú, José Luis Pagador Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160216_1_grid.jpg)
Fumador hindú
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,863
![Painting, Leaving L.A., Céline Achour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159312_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Maro White, Théo MHS](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154928_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Attraction désastre, Céline Achour](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136675_1_grid.jpg)
Attraction désastre
Céline Achour
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,096
![Painting, Le détour, Jean-Baptiste Dumont](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123217_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Desatado #27, Jeffrey Davies](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068281_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Confundidos # 17, Jeffrey Davies](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068278_1_grid.jpg)
Confundidos # 17
Jeffrey Davies
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$1,645
![Painting, Nublado 12, Jeffrey Davies](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2068272_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mnemonic codes 001, Cristina Stefan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045187_1_grid.jpg)
Mnemonic codes 001
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 63.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 25 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$945
![Painting, Mnemonic codes 004, Cristina Stefan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2045178_1_grid.jpg)
Mnemonic codes 004
Cristina Stefan
Painting - 57.2 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22.5 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,134
![Painting, Ocean drops, Alexandra Petropoulou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2025165_1_grid.jpg)
Ocean drops
Alexandra Petropoulou
Painting - 99.8 x 119.9 x 2 cm Painting - 39.3 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,183
![Painting, Terracotta knott, Silvia Vassileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1858296_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The ride of life, Selene Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852095_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter blues, Lynne Taetzsch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842843_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reconnecting with your inner self, Selene Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842624_1_grid.jpg)
Reconnecting with your inner self
Selene Art
Painting - 49.8 x 174.8 x 3.6 cm Painting - 19.6 x 68.8 x 1.4 inch
$1,285
![Painting, Earth, sister and mother, Irene Raspollini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818372_1_grid.jpg)
Earth, sister and mother
Irene Raspollini
Painting - 95 x 95 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 37.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,788
![Painting, Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas, Christel Haag](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1818249_1_grid.jpg)
Snoopy, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Christel Haag
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1 inch
$820
![Painting, Unflolding, Karen Hale](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815375_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Patch skin 3, Anne Girault Bardaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1782663_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Patch skin 1, Anne Girault Bardaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1782639_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White & blue skin no. 1, Anne Girault Bardaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1782561_1_grid.jpg)
White & blue skin no. 1
Anne Girault Bardaud
Painting - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,964
![Painting, Miracles III, Painting, Acrylic on canvas, Xiaoyang Galas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770858_1_grid.jpg)
Miracles III, Painting, Acrylic on canvas
Xiaoyang Galas
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,560
![Painting, L'arbre d'Eden, Mark Fontaine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1523829_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Inevitable Coincidence : red, Hansol Yoon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468695_1_grid.jpg)
Inevitable Coincidence : red
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 42 x 29 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,174
![Painting, Inevitable Coincidence : 130-131, Hansol Yoon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1468635_1_grid.jpg)
Inevitable Coincidence : 130-131
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 27.7 x 20.6 x 2 cm Painting - 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,264
![Fine Art Drawings, Doux, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419633_1_grid.jpg)
Doux
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$503
![Photography, Matiere Hybride.3, Joëlle Cabanne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1369338_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'homme blanc qui vole, Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1326870_1_grid.jpg)
L'homme blanc qui vole
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 29 x 11.4 x 3 cm Painting - 11.4 x 4.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,007
![Sculpture, Existence12, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/886485_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Existence10, Yasuo Kiyonaga](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/886470_1_grid.jpg)
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!