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![Painting, Ukiyo. Japon Series, Davide Susca](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198503_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, 2022/12-1- GA55, Guillaume Allemand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1781919_1_grid.jpg)
2022/12-1- GA55
Guillaume Allemand
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,678
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Corpuscular - wave dualism
Elena Furgal
Painting - 39.8 x 29.7 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.7 x 1.2 inch
$8,668
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Petite composition 7-24
Jean François Guelfi
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$280 $252
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Hommage à Pompon
Michel Audiard
Sculpture - 25 x 50 x 16 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 19.7 x 6.3 inch
$1,454
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Nite Nite (White)
Tatsuhiro Ide
Sculpture - 30 x 25.9 x 26.9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 10.2 x 10.6 inch
$5,500
![Painting, Duality, Alexandre de Poplavsky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205834_1_grid.jpg)
Duality
Alexandre de Poplavsky
Painting - 160 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$31,317
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The Rebirth of Wilhelm
Andrei Shchurok
Painting - 130 x 190 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 74.8 x 1.2 inch
$8,388
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Untitled #10 From Los Infortunios De La Virtud Series
Armando de la Garza
Sculpture - 26.9 x 14 x 9.9 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
$2,500
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Tropiques, oiseaux blancs
Bernard Marie Collet
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,125
![Painting, Sea sunset swell n*8 - Italian painting, Bruno Di Giulio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212296_1_grid.jpg)
Sea sunset swell n*8 - Italian painting
Bruno Di Giulio
Painting - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$363
![Design, RockStool ST10 size: M, Tam Sachs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190411_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, El papel como materia y el hilo como símbolo, Francesca Poza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186631_1_grid.jpg)
El papel como materia y el hilo como símbolo
Francesca Poza
Painting - 65 x 65 cm Painting - 25.6 x 25.6 inch
$3,244
![Painting, Rodman, Fresha D](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203815_1_grid.jpg)
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![Fine Art Drawings, Sur le toit, Gabriel Riesnert](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210481_1_grid.jpg)
Sur le toit
Gabriel Riesnert
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$447
![Print, Landscape of Memory, Shu Takahashi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200432_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Moonwalk on wheels 1, Guillaume Nicolaou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137969_1_grid.jpg)
Moonwalk on wheels 1
Guillaume Nicolaou
Sculpture - 150 x 70 x 5 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,579
![Sculpture, Coeur argenté, Béatrice Bost Le Moël](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195958_1_grid.jpg)
Coeur argenté
Béatrice Bost Le Moël
Sculpture - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
![Print, Untitled, Vicent Ferrer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213344_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Untitled, Eslava](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212238_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled (All communication must cease), David Shrigley](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196796_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled (All communication must cease)
David Shrigley
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 28 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$9,500
![Photography, Beta Collage 71, Michael Filonow](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2184966_1_grid.jpg)
Beta Collage 71
Michael Filonow
Photography - 50.8 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$760
![Sculpture, Hope dog, Mr Hope](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210402_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Life Posture IV, Wenqin Chen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202184_1_grid.jpg)
Life Posture IV
Wenqin Chen
Sculpture - 200 x 175 x 161 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 68.9 x 63.4 inch
$114,978
![Painting, Juliette (1), Frederic Weisz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190435_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Seeking Hope, Andrew Paranavitana](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213533_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Image drawing: Star constellation lightbox, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209722_1_grid.jpg)
Image drawing: Star constellation lightbox
Jenny Owens
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.8 inch
$503
![Print, Abstract Portrait, Virgilio Guidi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200167_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jardín de las flores, Laura Rubio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212475_1_grid.jpg)
Jardín de las flores
Laura Rubio
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,606
![Painting, Be kind, Tanya Aubut](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205383_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Glitch #01. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197857_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #01. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 26.9 x 9.9 x 9.9 cm Design - 10.6 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$1,300
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![Sculpture, L'étranger - série Sculpture portrait de femme, Chantal Nottrelet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188036_1_grid.jpg)
L'étranger - série Sculpture portrait de femme
Chantal Nottrelet
Sculpture - 39 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
$559
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Zebras under the African sky
PickWick
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$895
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Alexandria’s Genesis
Paris Sergiou
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,398
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Black Hole
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$660
![Painting, Apartment in the Upper East Side, featuring a painting by Yoshitomo Nara., Josh Delo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200088_1_grid.jpg)
Apartment in the Upper East Side, featuring a painting by Yoshitomo Nara.
Josh Delo
Painting - 140 x 113 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 44.5 x 1.6 inch
$21,251
![Painting, Sans titre, Aurelien Grudzien](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187234_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cabinet des Lapins, Corine Perier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210877_1_grid.jpg)
Cabinet des Lapins
Corine Perier
Painting - 100 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
$8,053
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Ours marchant
Marie-Josèphe Stenne
Sculpture - 18 x 37.5 x 12.5 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 14.8 x 4.9 inch
$671
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Sans titre
Vassily Kandinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 49 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 19.3 inch
$80,529
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Vision of peace
Zakaria Aboukhriss
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$503
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Palazzo Grimani, Female Center
Magda Von Hanau
Photography - 121.9 x 81.3 x 0.3 cm Photography - 48 x 32 x 0.1 inch
$4,000
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Basal Elements. The cycle
Ariadna Dane
Painting - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$1,159
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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!