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![Painting, Residence, Lisa Daniels](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1815678_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Rose 636, Aykaz Arzumanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1764600_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Modern Geometric 2, Cátia Goffinet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1534467_1_grid.jpg)
Modern Geometric 2
Cátia Goffinet
Painting - 104 x 147 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40.9 x 57.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,906
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Le Panthéon (vue de la rue Valette)
Marie France Garrigues
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$729
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Minotaure aux tétines
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$471
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Metamorphoses of desire
Vasil Vasilev-Vaso
Painting - 60 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$841
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Paysage de chine sur des radeaux en bambou
Ellis Zbinden
Painting - 47 x 67 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.5 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$12,108 $9,686
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Dieu est un chien (God is a Dog)
Edmond Li Bellefroid
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$897
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Josep Maria Codina
Josep María Codina
Painting - 20 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 7.9 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$953
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Inverno a Burano
Mario Domenicale
Painting - 26 x 36 x 0.2 cm Painting - 10.2 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$202
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BLACK is the warmest color
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 1 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$538
![Painting, Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra, Akira Inumaru](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1464510_1_grid.jpg)
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$6,951
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![Fine Art Drawings, Fix you 1, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419897_1_grid.jpg)
Fix you 1
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, You, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419882_1_grid.jpg)
You
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$426
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The bitch is back
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$426
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L'ego
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, L’invitation au voyage III, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419873_1_grid.jpg)
L’invitation au voyage III
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, L’invitation au voyage II, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419867_1_grid.jpg)
L’invitation au voyage II
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, L’invitation au voyage I, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419858_1_grid.jpg)
L’invitation au voyage I
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, L’important c’est d’aimer, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419852_1_grid.jpg)
L’important c’est d’aimer
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
![Fine Art Drawings, Hero, Yohan Storti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1419840_1_grid.jpg)
Hero
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$426
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Beau temps sur la Istiklal CD
Serge Salis
Painting - 100 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,812
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Neige printemps 24
Adrianna MJW
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$448
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Daft Punk Red Angel
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 40 x 29 x 22 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 11.4 x 8.7 inch
$729
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Autorretrato. Picasso.
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,619
![Painting, Inspiración, José Luis Pagador Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2160225_1_grid.jpg)
Inspiración
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$5,493
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Arty white candleholder "Small Pearls" for 2 Candles
Irena Tone
Design - 11 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.1 x 3.7 inch
$224
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Personnage cadac H.30cm Blanc
Parvine Curie
Sculpture - 30 x 9 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.5 x 3.1 inch
$1,345
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Lala Wants to Stay Warm, but...
Brian Nash
Painting - 61 x 61 x 0.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.3 inch
$1,300
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Roboclusion Stormtrooper
Vincent Sabatier
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 2 inch
$1,457
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Dans le ciel plus de problèmes I
Kerstin Paillard
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,401
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Antiquité et baroque, l’étude à Rome
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,803
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Eugène Delacroix
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
$3,924
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Skiers At Verbier - 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
$3,980
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Arsène
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 150 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,938
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Noah Borger
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$336
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This is not a Phone
Scott Troxel
Sculpture - 25.4 x 14 x 11.4 cm Sculpture - 10 x 5.5 x 4.5 inch
$729
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Roboclusion Street Fighter Ryu
Vincent Sabatier
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$1,457
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!