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![Painting, Little mermaid, Penguino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1928283_1_grid.jpg)
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Sur le fil #12
Juliette Marie Regnier
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,716
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Insurance Card
Francisco Montoya Cázarez
Painting - 24 x 32 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 12.6 x 0.1 inch
$604
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Udako Solstizioa (Summer Solstice), Conceptual Painting
Alberto Letamendi
Painting - 100.3 x 100.3 x 5.1 cm Painting - 39.5 x 39.5 x 2 inch
$6,000
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Castle With Fountain
Jens-Christian Wittig
Painting - 61 x 119.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 47 x 1 inch
$6,500
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Inconnue Douglas vendeuse
Henrik Jacob
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$895
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L'aube de la première descente
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$213
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Lletres de llibre
Ferran Cartes Yerro
Sculpture - 35 x 35 x 6 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2.4 inch
$615
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Green Reflection
Bernadette Jiyong Frank
Painting - 122 x 122 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1.2 inch
$10,346
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Winter Twist
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$839
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Hard Rock
Irina Bellaye BlanXs
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$839
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Les ceuilleurs de fruits
José Saboia
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,237
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Hermes & Skull Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 18 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.1 inch
$397
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La Source de La Loue - Grotte et cascade - série Paysage de montagne
Anne-Marie Renno
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$839
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Les musiciens d´acordéons
José Saboia
Painting - 33 x 41 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 16.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,063
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White peony on a black background
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,915
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White tree branches - minimalism nature garden 3d textured cement
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$4,474
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White geometric seascape - 3D texture minimalism
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,915
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Stormtrooper on paper (artwork from the streets)
JP Malot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$895
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Rasta royalty
Ibrahima Sory Diallo
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,063
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Otherworldly IV
Ansgar Dressler
Painting - 121.9 x 101.6 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 40 x 1.2 inch
$2,100
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Batman feat Hercules - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 40 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$463
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David the golden boy
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$305
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White tiger - handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 14 x 30 x 7 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 11.8 x 2.8 inch
$185
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The Veiled Vestal Virgin Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 43 x 26 x 15 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 10.2 x 5.9 inch
$291
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Brown abstract painting DK799
Radek Smach
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,120
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Emerald abstract painting UT417
Radek Smach
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,120
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Abstract painting CS417
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,320
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Brown abstract painting HT674
Radek Smach
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,120
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Abstract painting SA552
Radek Smach
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,120
![Painting, Abstract painting IT705, Radek Smach](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1843338_1_grid.jpg)
Abstract painting IT705
Radek Smach
Painting - 100.1 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,160
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Reveiller White
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Sculpture - 82 x 74 x 79 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 29.1 x 31.1 inch
$12,010
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La part des Anges - the Angels' share
Bze Bzeland
Painting - 42 x 29.7 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 inch
$280
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Chinese Interior #20
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 49 x 42 cm Photography - 19.3 x 16.5 inch
$2,013
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Chinese Interior #48
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,013
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Chinese Interior #36
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,013
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Cross my heart and hope to die
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$308
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Delirio Exótico #11
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Delirio Exótico #9
Paloma Castello
Photography - 119.9 x 82.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 32.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Delirio Exótico #2
Paloma Castello
Photography - 82.8 x 119.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 32.6 x 47.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Série : Pièces de mer de Castoul
Manfred Paul
Photography - 50 x 60 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 inch
$2,013
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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!