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![Print, Ozendu, Eduardo Chillida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/323362_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Arsène, Agathe Lemaire Thalazac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2201860_1_grid.jpg)
Arsène
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Painting - 150 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$17,895
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178693_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "Photo for Memory"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 55 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 21.7 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
![Sculpture, Coupelle de vanités, Philippe Pasqua](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176339_1_grid.jpg)
Coupelle de vanités
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 28 x 45 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11 x 17.7 x 13.8 inch
$27,962
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![Painting, Heart in white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172554_1_grid.jpg)
Heart in white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,355
![Painting, White hearts - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2170847_1_grid.jpg)
White hearts - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,921
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![Painting, Dans les champs, en fin d´après-midi., José Saboia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153275_1_grid.jpg)
Dans les champs, en fin d´après-midi.
José Saboia
Painting - 50 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
![Painting, Farmhouse with Chickens, Michael Hill](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2151864_1_grid.jpg)
Farmhouse with Chickens
Michael Hill
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,589
![Painting, Rock on white - 3D textured minimalism calm modern music, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2144029_1_grid.jpg)
Rock on white - 3D textured minimalism calm modern music
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 120 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,915
![Painting, Contemporary portrait "At Night", Nataliya Bagatskaya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133601_1_grid.jpg)
Contemporary portrait "At Night"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,454
![Painting, Sans titre #2 - Série Déchirée, détruite mais libre, Sanaa Abouayoub](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129113_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre #2 - Série Déchirée, détruite mais libre
Sanaa Abouayoub
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Shoot the bank on financial time (Arrows 2013), JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2125140_1_grid.jpg)
Shoot the bank on financial time (Arrows 2013)
JP Malot
Painting - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,237
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Faces of health: The multi-faceted hygieia decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 33 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 13 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$212
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Miniature Alexander the Great bust
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 19 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 7.5 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$86
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![Painting, Pavots - série Végétal, Jackie Spaeter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932507_1_grid.jpg)
Pavots - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$638
![Painting, Pompons - série Végétal, Jackie Spaeter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932504_1_grid.jpg)
Pompons - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$638
![Painting, Sarah and the angels (from children’s bible), Tekla Aleksieva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1924968_1_grid.jpg)
Sarah and the angels (from children’s bible)
Tekla Aleksieva
Painting - 30 x 45 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,309
![Painting, Basquiat, Imogen Morris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1897623_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Edie, Imogen Morris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1897617_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Thought chaos in tears, Jacqueline Dey](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1879929_1_grid.jpg)
Thought chaos in tears
Jacqueline Dey
Painting - 50 x 59.9 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.7 inch
$695
![Print, Ikur, Eduardo Chillida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/180019_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre (Bonnes fées), Christos Kalfas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1797960_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
$2,013
![Print, Alentour de la montagne 4, Raoul Ubac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/174397_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Follow your dreams, Diederik Van Apple](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1554609_1_grid.jpg)
Follow your dreams
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
$223
![Painting, Nature morte en Hiver, André Lac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1443789_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Hiver sur le canal du Midi, André Lac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1443780_1_grid.jpg)
Hiver sur le canal du Midi
André Lac
Painting - 54 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,722
![Painting, Le retour, Magdalena Lamri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1362954_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Cheval fantôme - série animaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292688_1_grid.jpg)
Cheval fantôme - série animaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,957
![Photography, Split II, Feng Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1167813_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Split I, Feng Wang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1167801_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Passing Through 1, Tenesh Webber](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1165338_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, North America, Yanko Tihov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/891471_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Australasia, Yanko Tihov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/891438_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Mirror Conversations 02, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174066_1_grid.jpg)
Mirror Conversations 02
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1 inch
$450
![Painting, Sans Titre, Meteo Meteo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Arum, Sange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2171357_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Series "Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding", winter mountains white 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165996_1_grid.jpg)
Series "Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding", winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
![Painting, Spirit N&B, Mes One](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157792_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Lidia Masllorens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139024_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Amour, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2126193_1_grid.jpg)
Amour
Virginia Benedicto
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,125 $1,891
![Print, Sans titre, Valerio Adami](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085927_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Homer's fashion week - Large format, Kobalt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002524_1_grid.jpg)
Homer's fashion week - Large format
Kobalt
Print - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$503
![Painting, Franclisa, Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1924827_1_grid.jpg)
Franclisa
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 91.9 x 91.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1 inch
$1,800
![Painting, Harmonic III, Sia Aryai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865964_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Harmonic .IV, Sia Aryai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1865961_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, All in bloom. IV, Sia Aryai](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1859169_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, The layers get to me, Michael Alan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1686324_1_grid.jpg)
The layers get to me
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 46.7 x 34.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.4 x 13.5 x 0.04 inch
$1,342
![Design, Vintage Table Lamp, Carlo Nason](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684893_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chronometer Series 4, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628850_1_grid.jpg)
Chronometer Series 4
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$671
![Painting, Chronometer Series 2, Lena Ochkalova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1628838_1_grid.jpg)
Chronometer Series 2
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$671
![Print, Postponed due to the pandemic!, Jay-C](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1626582_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Morning Sunbathing, Alexander Levich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620504_1_grid.jpg)
Morning Sunbathing
Alexander Levich
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
$973
![Print, Tränen: Hirschfuß, Joseph Beuys](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/16002_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White Silence, Gergana Stoyanova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1553004_1_grid.jpg)
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Sculpture ART M-LOVE "Pearl Fluo"
F&G
Sculpture - 56 x 114 x 45 cm Sculpture - 22 x 44.9 x 17.7 inch
$4,921
![Painting, Mer en hiver - série Mer, Françoise Lavenu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/913851_1_grid.jpg)
Mer en hiver - série Mer
Françoise Lavenu
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Photography, Élévation au Musée - Corée, Jean-Marc Stoeffler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/894531_1_grid.jpg)
Élévation au Musée - Corée
Jean-Marc Stoeffler
Photography - 37 x 47 x 1 cm Photography - 14.6 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$280
![Print, Sans titre (184), Miodrag Djuric (Dado)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/816813_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Planet Earth, Michael Grine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/591669_1_grid.jpg)
Planet Earth
Michael Grine
Painting - 60.5 x 121.4 x 5.4 cm Painting - 23.8 x 47.8 x 2.12 inch
$1,500
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![Painting, Noises From the Outside, Lukasz Olek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2153054_1_grid.jpg)
Noises From the Outside
Lukasz Olek
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,461
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Alpilles
Agnès Tiollier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$895
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![Fine Art Drawings, Intimate explosion, Michael Alan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1907109_1_grid.jpg)
Intimate explosion
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 27.9 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 11 x 0.04 inch
$3,020
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!