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![Print, Paysage intime-VI, Akané Kirimura](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/98497_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Trés port, Stéphane Martin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/919632_1_grid.jpg)
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Passage piéton
Stéphane Martin
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.04 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$168
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Couverture pliée
Andrii Kyrychenko
Sculpture - 65 x 30 x 35 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 11.8 x 13.8 inch
$10,625
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King be shaved
James Ogamba Tochukwu
Painting - 127 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,500
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Life at Jokulsarlon 01 - Jokulsarlon, Iceland
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$727
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Folding in Motion 10
Simcha Even-Chen
Sculpture - 16 x 30 x 11 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 11.8 x 4.3 inch
$3,355
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She Went to a Party in a White Dress
Karin Lowney Seed
Painting - 25.4 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 10 x 10 x 1 inch
$350
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Waiting for a friend
DB Waterman
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,915
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Don Quijote de La Mancha
Jose Manuel Merello
Fine Art Drawings - 13.5 x 21.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.3 x 8.5 inch
$559
![Photography, Architecture II, Chiara Indelicato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000778_1_grid.jpg)
Architecture II
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 69 x 102 x 0.5 cm Photography - 27.2 x 40.2 x 0.2 inch
$1,174
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Architecture II
Chiara Indelicato
Photography - 82 x 122 x 0.5 cm Photography - 32.3 x 48 x 0.2 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Sin título (Un espacio en construcción), Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1972437_1_grid.jpg)
Sin título (Un espacio en construcción)
Miquel Ponce
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$447
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Napoleon Bonaparte was in burning Moscow. 1812
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 68 x 104 x 2 cm Painting - 26.8 x 40.9 x 0.8 inch
$21,000
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Still life with plainair
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 75 x 87.5 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 34.4 x 0.8 inch
$9,500
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Desires 3
Esinulo Chiamaka Praise Chiamaka Praise
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,300
![Painting, Sin título (Un espacio en construcción), Miquel Ponce](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1904871_1_grid.jpg)
Sin título (Un espacio en construcción)
Miquel Ponce
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$447
![Painting, Mapping the inner Journey, Selene Art](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842402_1_grid.jpg)
Mapping the inner Journey
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$412
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Mapping the inner journey #2
Selene Art
Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$412
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Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh-Ville, Hôtel Continental
Eric Benard
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$727
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Outside the enclosure
Dam Domido
Painting - 104 x 175 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.9 x 68.9 x 0 inch
$5,480
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The Space Between Us
Ties Ten Bosch
Sculpture - 175 x 125 x 4 cm Sculpture - 68.9 x 49.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,704
![Photography, L'anti-chambre du départ, Pierre Gély-Fort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1258809_1_grid.jpg)
L'anti-chambre du départ
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$615
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Gérard Traquandi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/542929_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 14.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 5.7 inch
$447
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Concert nocturn a Bujaraloz
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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SOS Esquimau
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334
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Un esquimau dans le freezer
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334
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John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$3,244
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Camargo - Musée des Sables Barcarès
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 40 x 36 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 14.2 x 0 inch
$3,244
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Taisia Korotkova
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$559
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Les Frères Guinet
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$5,022
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Les Frères Guinet
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$2,796
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Bouquet de pivoines
Philippe Destors
Painting - 46 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,767
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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!