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![Print, Play Red, Bambi Artist](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1378266_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Fiesta, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295838_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tired, Karol Kállay](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1295781_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, The Space Between Us, Ties Ten Bosch](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1265334_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Arrière-Port 004, Marion Zylberman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/346978_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Ciegos 3, Jorge Pombo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/269497_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Butterfly, Karo Trass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182451_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mermaid, Karo Trass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182449_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Concert nocturn a Bujaraloz, Ferran Cartes Yerro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181159_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Memories 3, Almazan Miquel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179095_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sax Jazzy, Antonio "Anton" Ribeiro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178866_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jim Morrison, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177708_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Reflejos 2, Ana Reynolds](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174808_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sérénité, Charles Bézie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152269_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fukushima Land, Lussy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152119_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Compenetrazione, Marco Neri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2149012_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, SOS Esquimau, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148868_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Print, Un esquimau dans le freezer, Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148864_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Steve Mcqueen, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2148096_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Grossert Michael - 1970 Musée des Sables Barcarés, John Craven né Conte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141562_1_grid.jpg)
Grossert Michael - 1970 Musée des Sables Barcarés
John Craven né Conte
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$3,244
![Photography, Camargo - Musée des Sables Barcarès, John Craven né Conte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2141557_1_grid.jpg)
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
![Painting, Imagined destinations, Road sign ( Panneau indicateur ), Taisia Korotkova](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136088_1_grid.jpg)
Imagined destinations, Road sign ( Panneau indicateur )
Taisia Korotkova
Painting - 36 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 14.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$559
![Sculpture, Rock Guitare by les Frères Guinet, Les Frères Guinet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133571_1_grid.jpg)
Rock Guitare by les Frères Guinet
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 99 x 35 x 8 cm Sculpture - 39 x 13.8 x 3.1 inch
$5,022
![Painting, Openspace, Paka](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2127721_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Ballon de rugby, Les Frères Guinet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114592_1_grid.jpg)
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 29 x 29 x 21 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$2,796
![Painting, They work, Andrea Vandoni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2114496_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bouquet de pivoines, Philippe Destors](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2113113_1_grid.jpg)
Bouquet de pivoines
Philippe Destors
Painting - 46 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,767
![Painting, Mickey fuck, Illian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2093580_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mickey fuck, Illian](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2093298_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Flying Les Paul, Benjamin Pietri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2085453_1_grid.jpg)
Flying Les Paul
Benjamin Pietri
Sculpture - 137 x 70 x 9 cm Sculpture - 53.9 x 27.6 x 3.5 inch
$24,606
![Painting, Path in the snow, Saint Julien du Pinet, Anne Baudequin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2033145_1_grid.jpg)
Path in the snow, Saint Julien du Pinet
Anne Baudequin
Painting - 108 x 161.8 x 3 cm Painting - 42.5 x 63.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,500
![Painting, People on the coast, Yelda Inecik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2015799_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, People on the coast II, Yelda Inecik](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2015784_1_grid.jpg)
People on the coast II
Yelda Inecik
Painting - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$530
![Painting, JM Basquiat, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2004705_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Day in july M 1, Peter Nottrott](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2002083_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Amour secret, Laurence Chouzenoux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980753_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Innocence, Laurence Chouzenoux](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980672_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vanityskew, Nicolas Hil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1933605_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Mechanic body, Richard Lindner](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1902948_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beyond Infinity, Vern Rollin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1885623_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 20.03, Mccain McMurray](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1851915_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Bricks, Emily Redd](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1842792_1_grid.jpg)
Bricks
Emily Redd
Fine Art Drawings - 26.7 x 62.2 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 inch
$250
![Painting, It's a tie 2 of 3, Larissa Schlick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1779621_1_grid.jpg)
It's a tie 2 of 3
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
![Painting, Twists & Turns, Larissa Schlick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1779618_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, No Strings Attached, Larissa Schlick](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1779615_1_grid.jpg)
No Strings Attached
Larissa Schlick
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,362
![Print, Queen of cups, Franco Gentilini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1754934_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, King of Coins, Franco Gentilini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1754928_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Pont d'attache, Karo Trass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1752441_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fleur de lotus, Karo Trass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1752438_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Shanti eyes, Karo Trass](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1752435_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, 70' - 80' My Generation, Sokratis Evgenidis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1730148_1_grid.jpg)
70' - 80' My Generation
Sokratis Evgenidis
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,717
![Painting, Amy Dior Banksy, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1723695_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled 78, Issa Halloum](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1687104_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vintage roller, Franck Savoye (Francky)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1661148_1_grid.jpg)
Vintage roller
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 60 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
$503
![Painting, Dystopian, Joseph Lucky Karma](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1659156_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hope Bat, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1641420_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Moët&Chandon, Ske](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1632117_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Flower power diptych, Palirina](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1606092_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 2, Olivier Godat](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1557567_1_grid.jpg)
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 2
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,118
![Design, Osso guéridon, Sa Company](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1487250_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Persee, Massimiliano Pelletti](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1471254_1_grid.jpg)
Persee
Massimiliano Pelletti
Sculpture - 68 x 40 x 37 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 15.7 x 14.6 inch
$49,212
![Sculpture, El Sayo esperando, Natalia Gleason](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1446423_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Landscape in Washi, Jan Sullivan Fowler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1444206_1_grid.jpg)
Landscape in Washi
Jan Sullivan Fowler
Painting - 20.32 x 25.4 x 0.1 cm Painting - 8 x 10 x 0 inch
$250
![Painting, Glisser sur les vagues de ses rêves, Didier Colomès](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1408932_1_grid.jpg)
Glisser sur les vagues de ses rêves
Didier Colomès
Painting - 25 x 35 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$638
![Painting, Le pays des fées, Sandrine Jarrosson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1361307_1_grid.jpg)
Le pays des fées
Sandrine Jarrosson
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$5,369
![Painting, Marathon 10, Arno Lanzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336926_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marathon 8, Arno Lanzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336917_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marathon 7, Arno Lanzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336908_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marathon 6, Arno Lanzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336905_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marathon 5, Arno Lanzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336899_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Aulx, Laurence Gasior](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1310481_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portals, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200132_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fertility, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200129_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The 4th Dimension, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200126_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Happiness, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200093_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sezione della Mole, Riccardo Buonafede](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/657276_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Awishama - Dueña de la coca. Cultura Wiwa, Colombia, Antonio Briceño](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/443589_1_grid.jpg)
Awishama - Dueña de la coca. Cultura Wiwa, Colombia
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 181 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 71.3 x 0 inch
$7,606
![Sculpture, Âlif - Clou cristal, Yazid Oulab](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/39428_1_grid.jpg)
Âlif - Clou cristal
Yazid Oulab
Sculpture - 15 x 50 x 15 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 19.7 x 5.9 inch
$7,717
![Painting, Mademoiselle Sayana, Angelika Zorigt](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179221_1_grid.jpg)
Mademoiselle Sayana
Angelika Zorigt
Painting - 50 x 39.5 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean-Michel Mefort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177835_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, To live off of memories, Reinaldo Chavez](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175036_1_grid.jpg)
To live off of memories
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 27.5 x 22 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$324
![Painting, Sans titre, Jean-Michel Mefort](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174125_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Les fées artistes 2, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2173310_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Water lily, Flower of purity, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167835_1_grid.jpg)
Water lily, Flower of purity
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 119.9 x 89.9 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,550
![Painting, Morning on the lake, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167833_1_grid.jpg)
Morning on the lake
Le anh Tuan
Painting - 79.8 x 119.9 x 3 cm Painting - 31.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,450
![Painting, Water Lilies, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167831_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sparkling heaven, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167809_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heavenly light, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167808_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Summer light, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167807_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Morning on the lake, Le anh Tuan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167798_1_grid.jpg)
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!