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![Sculpture, The white garden, Alla Grande](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181258_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marine abstraite 2024-51, Fred Boutet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180355_1_grid.jpg)
Marine abstraite 2024-51
Fred Boutet
Painting - 40 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$783
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Seems Heavy, There's Help
Kpe Innocent
Painting - 100 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$6,711
![Painting, Série Lignes blanches - Soleil couchant, Lionel Chevalier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2162209_1_grid.jpg)
Série Lignes blanches - Soleil couchant
Lionel Chevalier
Painting - 65 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,678
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Secret memories
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,540
![Painting, Mémoire du Temps n°1, Anne-Marie Mary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1974873_1_grid.jpg)
Mémoire du Temps n°1
Anne-Marie Mary
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$1,074
![Painting, Fantasia and Fugue, Behshad Arjomandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1866816_1_grid.jpg)
Fantasia and Fugue
Behshad Arjomandi
Painting - 100.1 x 100.1 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,680
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![Painting, Un peu d'air pur, Alexandra Battezzati](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1590513_1_grid.jpg)
Un peu d'air pur
Alexandra Battezzati
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,362
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Un air d exotisme : Mahe Seychelles
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
$2,751
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![Sculpture, Currency War € VS ¥ - Version Vase, Li Lihong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/768462_1_grid.jpg)
Currency War € VS ¥ - Version Vase
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 10.2 x 19.5 x 7.5 cm Sculpture - 4 x 7.7 x 3 inch
$559
![Sculpture, Currency War White $ vs ¥, Li Lihong](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/762297_1_grid.jpg)
Currency War White $ vs ¥
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 22.5 x 28 x 16.3 cm Sculpture - 8.9 x 11 x 6.4 inch
$2,237
![Painting, Éphémère-réaliste 2, Cécile Jaunet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/668478_1_grid.jpg)
Éphémère-réaliste 2
Cécile Jaunet
Painting - 115 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Éphémère-réaliste 1, Cécile Jaunet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/668472_1_grid.jpg)
Éphémère-réaliste 1
Cécile Jaunet
Painting - 115 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 45.3 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
![Print, Paysage sombre, Jean Fautrier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/406198_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, MC Caviar Courchevel, XTC](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179380_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Masquerade of emotions, Aram Sevoyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177582_1_grid.jpg)
Masquerade of emotions
Aram Sevoyan
Painting - 90 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
![Photography, La mini maison, Christophe Jacrot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2092308_1_grid.jpg)
La mini maison
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,579
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![Painting, Vingtquatre détails, Thomas Berthier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1800411_1_grid.jpg)
Vingtquatre détails
Thomas Berthier
Painting - 78 x 52 x 0.5 cm Painting - 30.7 x 20.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,901
![Print, The Warrior (yellow), Blek Le Rat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1725891_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Un souffle de légèreté, Dam Domido](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1681848_1_grid.jpg)
Un souffle de légèreté
Dam Domido
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.6 inch
$582
![Painting, Niño frente al espejo 2, Alejandro Toscano](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488564_1_grid.jpg)
Niño frente al espejo 2
Alejandro Toscano
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,695
![Painting, Ground Patterns 1, L'Atlas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1455213_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'Océan par temps gris, Michel Trapezaroff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1256853_1_grid.jpg)
L'Océan par temps gris
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 24 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$5,167
![Painting, Environs d'Habère-Poche en hiver, Michel Trapezaroff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1256784_1_grid.jpg)
Environs d'Habère-Poche en hiver
Michel Trapezaroff
Painting - 19 x 27 x 0.5 cm Painting - 7.5 x 10.6 x 0.2 inch
$3,288
![Print, White Fields, Kamen Startchev](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/996879_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iris negre VI, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/856122_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iris negre VI, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/856110_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Iris negre VI, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/856002_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Casa amb jardi 1, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/604332_1_grid.jpg)
Casa amb jardi 1
Joan Hernández Pijuan
Print - 100 x 76 x 1 cm Print - 39.4 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,118
![Print, Acotaciones 2, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/604077_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ombra, Joan Hernández Pijuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/604056_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Street in Santorini, Serhii Cherniakovskyi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182646_1_grid.jpg)
Street in Santorini
Serhii Cherniakovskyi
Painting - 80 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Starry sky black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179946_1_grid.jpg)
Starry sky black and white abstraction dropping Pop Art
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 40 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$884
![Painting, Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166050_1_grid.jpg)
Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,118
![Painting, Winter white mountain landscape, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2145621_1_grid.jpg)
Winter white mountain landscape
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$671
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![Fine Art Drawings, Two lines 3, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1781439_1_grid.jpg)
Two lines 3
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$168
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![Fine Art Drawings, Line 3, Gina Vor](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1601697_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Window into Ocean, Lilly Lillà](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1417377_1_grid.jpg)
Window into Ocean
Lilly Lillà
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$3,411
![Print, Spring, Aloyzas Smilingis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1317321_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Poésie féminine - série Silhouette de femmes, Francine Cordier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1298616_1_grid.jpg)
Poésie féminine - série Silhouette de femmes
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,465
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![Print, Comme un sol plus obscur 12, Raoul Ubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/402217_1_grid.jpg)
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Nourritures du futur I
Angélique
Sculpture - 45 x 32 x 32 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 12.6 x 12.6 inch
$4,474
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Orsay Oner (Festival culture urbaine. Paris.)
JP Malot
Painting - 52 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
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Bourgeois Big Top
Scott Troxel
Sculpture - 55.9 x 34.3 x 8.3 cm Sculpture - 22 x 13.5 x 3.25 inch
$1,566
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Initial point 4
Alexander Lazarkov
Painting - 200 x 106 x 0.2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 41.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,058
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Clouds and pareidolia
Isabelle Fournet
Painting - 90 x 270 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 106.3 x 0.8 inch
$4,362
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Enfantillages (série)
Nagsoul
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$671
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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!