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![Painting, Fraicheur, Veroe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1752765_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Château, Hermann Paul](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692615_1_grid.jpg)
Château
Hermann Paul
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 25.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 10 x 0.1 inch
$448
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![Sculpture, Flowerskull vert blanc, VL.](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1614324_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Not same yet not different, Heoyu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1609887_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Fountain of the Turtles, Giuseppe Malandrino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1545618_1_grid.jpg)
Fountain of the Turtles
Giuseppe Malandrino
Print - 35 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$269
![Photography, Watchtower MLT IV, Sven Pfrommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1544982_1_grid.jpg)
Watchtower MLT IV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,119
![Painting, Method of tenacity, Rafel Bestard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1449210_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Akémi, Dimitri Roubichou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1354311_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Série: Natura facit saltus - bézoard, Edgar Lissel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/447453_1_grid.jpg)
Série: Natura facit saltus - bézoard
Edgar Lissel
Photography - 100 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$8,969
![Photography, Sans Titre, Jean-François Spricigo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177456_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 22 x 57 x 1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 22.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,139
![Photography, Sans Titre, Jean-François Spricigo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177455_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 27.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 10.8 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,691
![Photography, Sans titre, Jean-François Spricigo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177446_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Jean-François Spricigo
Photography - 30 x 26 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 10.2 x 0.4 inch
$2,915
![Photography, Tropical Space Hostal, Simon Vega](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160255_1_grid.jpg)
Tropical Space Hostal
Simon Vega
Photography - 51 x 76 x 4 cm Photography - 20.1 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$2,466
![Painting, Pointview of the town - Positano Italy painting, Vincenzo Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159261_1_grid.jpg)
Pointview of the town - Positano Italy painting
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$364
![Photography, David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Closed, Brian Duffy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142657_1_grid.jpg)
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Closed
Brian Duffy
Photography - 61 x 61 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 24 x 0 inch
$24,104
![Photography, David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open, Brian Duffy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142652_1_grid.jpg)
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Eyes Open
Brian Duffy
Photography - 101 x 101 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.8 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$11,772
![Sculpture, Angel, Hilbertas Jatkevicius](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139468_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Auspicious fairy crane - 4, Jinxian Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133178_1_grid.jpg)
Auspicious fairy crane - 4
Jinxian Zhang
Painting - 69 x 139 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.2 x 54.7 x 0.2 inch
$4,372
![Painting, View from the terrace (vertical version) - Positano painting, Vincenzo Somma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126950_1_grid.jpg)
View from the terrace (vertical version) - Positano painting
Vincenzo Somma
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$364
![Painting, TN717, Hachiro Kanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2094291_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Walking seagulls, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051427_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The view of Schiedam 2, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051157_1_grid.jpg)
The view of Schiedam 2
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 30 x 39.9 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$333
![Painting, Wet dog 3, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051067_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Equestrienne 5, Elena Sokolova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2051016_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, The 3rd day #5, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195013_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Dancer: Xiao Shan, Cody Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/195007_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Gondoliers in Venice, Gianpaolo Berto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938426_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Audrey Hepburn Nothing is impossible 2, Gardani Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852506_1_grid.jpg)
Audrey Hepburn Nothing is impossible 2
Gardani Art
Painting - 96.5 x 127 x 3.8 cm Painting - 38 x 50 x 1.5 inch
$5,900
![Painting, They Know the way, Gardani Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842831_1_grid.jpg)
They Know the way
Gardani Art
Painting - 137.2 x 106.7 x 8.9 cm Painting - 54 x 42 x 3.5 inch
$7,500
![Painting, All eyes on me, Andrew Wallas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1745871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Transposition #3, Dominique Dève](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692969_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Decks - In The Mix, Nick Veasey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611621_1_grid.jpg)
Decks - In The Mix
Nick Veasey
Photography - 42 x 93.3 x 2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 36.7 x 0.8 inch
$22,086
![Photography, Or Not, Samzaï](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1601868_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Disque vinyl Basquiat, PyB](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1579512_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Izanami, Juliette Clovis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/331321_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Crane de Jouy, Mr Popart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177799_1_grid.jpg)
Crane de Jouy
Mr Popart
Fine Art Drawings - 13.2 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.2 x 6.1 x 0 inch
$224
![Design, Flower Bomber, Brandalised](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2168884_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Shadok Pietre, Flo Hombecq](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166156_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Following the light II, Kamalky Laureano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153772_1_grid.jpg)
Following the light II
Kamalky Laureano
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$6,839 $6,497
![Painting, Job offer, Simon Richard Halimi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2108055_1_grid.jpg)
Job offer
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$47,086
![Photography, Morning Rise, Drew Doggett](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2101617_1_grid.jpg)
Morning Rise
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,130
![Painting, Serenity, Nadya Stancheva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097732_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Inner depth, Oshi Rabin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2008848_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Casse-toi pauv’con, Fabrizio Saracino](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1961874_1_grid.jpg)
Casse-toi pauv’con
Fabrizio Saracino
Sculpture - 37 x 64 x 3.5 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 25.2 x 1.4 inch
$2,579
![Sculpture, Ours blanc, MIKA L](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1947423_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Les précaires, Jean Denant](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1923294_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Pingouin des Antilles, Herve Guibert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1802565_1_grid.jpg)
Pingouin des Antilles
Herve Guibert
Sculpture - 120 x 80 x 80 cm Sculpture - 47.2 x 31.5 x 31.5 inch
$4,484
![Painting, Marilyn Monroe turquoise, UTN](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1789902_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Portrait 2, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1495899_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, De précipices en belvédères 8, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1495758_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, La coz y el martillo, Miguel Amate](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1475289_1_grid.jpg)
La coz y el martillo
Miguel Amate
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$14,036
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![Painting, No title, Margret Trimborn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344240_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No title, Margret Trimborn](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1344195_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, NL #42, Charles Weber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1081272_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Nicole Mixed Media Sculpture, John Petrey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1068279_1_grid.jpg)
Nicole Mixed Media Sculpture
John Petrey
Sculpture - 68.6 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm Sculpture - 27 x 15 x 15 inch
$6,900
![Sculpture, Natale Mixed Media Sculpture, John Petrey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1068273_1_grid.jpg)
Natale Mixed Media Sculpture
John Petrey
Sculpture - 144.8 x 53.3 x 53.3 cm Sculpture - 57 x 21 x 21 inch
$11,500
![Painting, Dans les nues, Florence Boré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1064865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Couple at sea, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179787_1_grid.jpg)
Couple at sea
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 80 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,500
![Painting, Sous le soleil exactement/15, Jean-Jacques Venturini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179376_1_grid.jpg)
Sous le soleil exactement/15
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 50 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$897
![Painting, In the rays of the winter sun, Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179008_1_grid.jpg)
In the rays of the winter sun
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 100 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,500
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![Photography, "BoletStranger" - Arboretum de Versailles-Chèvreloup, Vesna BECHA-BOJOVIC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160976_1_grid.jpg)
"BoletStranger" - Arboretum de Versailles-Chèvreloup
Vesna BECHA-BOJOVIC
Photography - 14 x 24 x 0.2 cm Photography - 5.5 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$101
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Moment de tendresse - série Chevaux et Paysage de Camargue
Myriam Colart
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$168
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A Dog, a cat and the 9 suns
Uy Nguyen
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$3,139
![Photography, Le petit banc de bois - 2/5, Sophie Mayeux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151907_1_grid.jpg)
Le petit banc de bois - 2/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$202
![Photography, Mourir d’amour enchaîné - 1/5, Sophie Mayeux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151224_1_grid.jpg)
Mourir d’amour enchaîné - 1/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$202
![Photography, Miroir de glace - 1/5, Sophie Mayeux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151221_1_grid.jpg)
Miroir de glace - 1/5
Sophie Mayeux
Photography - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$202
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![Painting, Saxophone et écho blanc, Aimé Venel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147948_1_grid.jpg)
Saxophone et écho blanc
Aimé Venel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$9,305
![Painting, 101.17, Ivan Plusch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147722_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!