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![Painting, Drawing #1, Martin Johansson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158374_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Chef Louis, Guy Buffet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077629_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Ct. 04, Mark Mazurcyk](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1852065_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eyes on me custom skate deck skateboard, Andrew Wallas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1745808_1_grid.jpg)
Eyes on me custom skate deck skateboard
Andrew Wallas
Painting - 22 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
$953
![Print, Location Plan, Terry Winters](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1570503_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Il gioco delle parti, Artisti Vari](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1509900_1_grid.jpg)
Il gioco delle parti
Artisti Vari
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 4 (Nature Takes Back series), Stela Vasileva](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1232193_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 4 (Nature Takes Back series)
Stela Vasileva
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 inch
$740
![Sculpture, Dear Ugly Future, Volkan Aslan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/973305_1_grid.jpg)
Dear Ugly Future
Volkan Aslan
Sculpture - 55 x 27 x 34 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 10.6 x 13.4 inch
$6,727
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Otto Wols](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/25880_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Grand Espace Cosmique, Aurélie Jeannin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179135_1_grid.jpg)
Grand Espace Cosmique
Aurélie Jeannin
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,242
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![Fine Art Drawings, Monster, Albert Decaris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1630527_1_grid.jpg)
Monster
Albert Decaris
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.8 x 0 inch
$650
![Fine Art Drawings, Daily Life, Kate Wilczynski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1357356_1_grid.jpg)
Daily Life
Kate Wilczynski
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$673
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![Photography, Peak Mid Winter #1, Jonathan Moore](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1066836_1_grid.jpg)
Peak Mid Winter #1
Jonathan Moore
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.01 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$994
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![Fine Art Drawings, Encre I, Maylis Bourdet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178749_1_grid.jpg)
Encre I
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 36.5 x 47 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.4 x 18.5 x 0.4 inch
$628
![Painting, The link, Arnaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2146828_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Was für ein Glück (Gestern), Paul Thierry](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1749258_1_grid.jpg)
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,563
![Fine Art Drawings, Women, Fausto delle Chiaie](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1691223_1_grid.jpg)
Women
Fausto delle Chiaie
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 59.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 23.5 x 0.1 inch
$561
![Fine Art Drawings, Homeland, Anet Duncan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/112702_1_grid.jpg)
Homeland
Anet Duncan
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 2.8 inch
$762
![Photography, Taos III, Kathia Mohl](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/30050_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Portraits de mains, Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2158172_1_grid.jpg)
Portraits de mains
Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
$617
![Painting, Flower Field Touch of Gold, Ans Pullens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154115_1_grid.jpg)
Flower Field Touch of Gold
Ans Pullens
Painting - 95 x 75 x 8 cm Painting - 37.4 x 29.5 x 3.1 inch
$6,166
![Print, El mundo es una cárcel, Carmen Calvo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142371_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bigger cloud, Mateusz Deryniowski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2006463_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, This Wallpaper is not Avaiable, Chiara Santoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1577814_1_grid.jpg)
This Wallpaper is not Avaiable
Chiara Santoro
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$561
![Painting, A longing no. 14, Joseph Adolphe](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2120100_1_grid.jpg)
A longing no. 14
Joseph Adolphe
Painting - 203 x 182 x 4 cm Painting - 79.9 x 71.7 x 1.6 inch
$40,360
![Painting, The boys in the boat, Lisa Golightly](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2087841_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Mediterranean, Jag Jo Auguste Germain](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932300_1_grid.jpg)
Mediterranean
Jag Jo Auguste Germain
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,009
![Sculpture, Lesson about the cube, Stefanoiu Vasile](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1697853_1_grid.jpg)
Lesson about the cube
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 40 x 23 x 14 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.1 x 5.5 inch
$2,242
![Design, Silver, Alex Meli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1604274_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Chaos, Mark Yale Harris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1336029_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans Titre (DED463027), Katsuko Kuroya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1514379_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre (DED463027)
Katsuko Kuroya
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$179
![Painting, Le Jaguar, Philippe Vignal](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177800_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Epure, Ode Bertrand](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156725_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Shakespeare Mirror Nr 1, Lika Brutyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2133679_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Cinderella, Rita Briansky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2083242_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Japan flowers with water, J.C Heywood](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077686_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Bubble queen, Roberta Modena](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1980177_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Looking for balance, Danielle Mano Bella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938840_1_grid.jpg)
Looking for balance
Danielle Mano Bella
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,682
![Photography, Blurry minds #2, Rani Bruchstein](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1803714_1_grid.jpg)
Blurry minds #2
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,882
![Fine Art Drawings, Park Hoog Oostduin 14-09-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper, Corné Akkers](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1770807_1_grid.jpg)
Park Hoog Oostduin 14-09-22, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Pencil on Paper
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 24.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 9.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,622
![Design, Murano Glass Plates, Aureliano Toso](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1684149_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Portrait 5, Manuella Ferré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1495917_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Jeune indien jouant avec sa colombe, Sabrina & Roland Michaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1010313_1_grid.jpg)
Jeune indien jouant avec sa colombe
Sabrina & Roland Michaud
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled, Olivier Marin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/59262_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Fresh Paint, John Petschinger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152978_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Pair of lamps in the style, Tommaso Barbi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1970745_1_grid.jpg)
Pair of lamps in the style
Tommaso Barbi
Design - 38 x 50 x 20 cm Design - 15 x 19.7 x 7.9 inch
$852
![Painting, Cats, Giancarlo Martelli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1938939_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ecoute au loin le TAM TAM de mon coeur qui vient vers toi, Lionel Sourisseau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1753641_1_grid.jpg)
Ecoute au loin le TAM TAM de mon coeur qui vient vers toi
Lionel Sourisseau
Painting - 36 x 48 x 1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$561
![Painting, Grails, Magdalena Gronowska](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1749063_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Floating, a Ee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1748775_1_grid.jpg)
Floating
a Ee
Fine Art Drawings - 21.4 x 14.7 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.4 inch
$4,897
![Painting, Untitled5, Basia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1736742_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ink on Gold, Zena Dabbous](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1364112_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Temps nouveaux, Yves Grandjean](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1278294_1_grid.jpg)
Temps nouveaux
Yves Grandjean
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,906
![Sculpture, Banksy in a can, Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2175830_1_grid.jpg)
Banksy in a can
Parenteau-Denoel & Mofart'z
Sculpture - 20 x 10 x 15 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 3.9 x 5.9 inch
$667
![Fine Art Drawings, Natura morta (Still life), Gino Severini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2134261_1_grid.jpg)
Natura morta (Still life)
Gino Severini
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 13 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.1 inch
$11,772
![Sculpture, Shiva, Stephan Balkenhol](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1976829_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Details I, Lyudmyla Davydenko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1893522_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, American Rhapsody, Jeanne Saint-Chéron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1300236_1_grid.jpg)
American Rhapsody
Jeanne Saint-Chéron
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,924
![Print, Shopping Heads 1, Ester Partegàs](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/792222_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Calmness, Bianca Caloi di Grassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165913_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre 393, Daniel Gonçalves](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2116497_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre 393
Daniel Gonçalves
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,121
![Painting, Zen colors 020, Ckraft](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1920927_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Untitled II, Ricardo Carbonell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1589499_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #1, Tran Trong Vu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1201599_1_grid.jpg)
We Don't Know How Water Is Blue #1
Tran Trong Vu
Painting - 254 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 100 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,300
![Fine Art Drawings, Un tit bout’ de nout’ berceau du peuplement - La grotte des premiers français Saint-Paul, Coryne Boyer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2159737_1_grid.jpg)
Un tit bout’ de nout’ berceau du peuplement - La grotte des premiers français Saint-Paul
Coryne Boyer
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,345
![Print, Invincible summer III, Sophie Mangelsen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1932255_1_grid.jpg)
Invincible summer III
Sophie Mangelsen
Print - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$325 $293
![Photography, Roadster, Franck Leclerc](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1739772_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, L’univers de la persécution, Johannes Gachnang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2130580_1_grid.jpg)
L’univers de la persécution
Johannes Gachnang
Print - 50 x 65 x 0.05 cm Print - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$448
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Contact color relief
Aurélie Trabaud
Sculpture - 54 x 54 x 4.2 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 21.3 x 1.7 inch
$3,588
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![Painting, Woman with red nails, JM Collell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1760658_1_grid.jpg)
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![Print, Geometric Abstract Composition, Sante Monachesi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1456776_1_grid.jpg)
Geometric Abstract Composition
Sante Monachesi
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$224
![Print, Gravure eau forte 1, Joel Giraud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1324179_1_grid.jpg)
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Into the love No.2
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 152.4 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 inch
$8,750
![Fine Art Drawings, Mother and Child, Irene Pereyra](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/920826_1_grid.jpg)
Mother and Child
Irene Pereyra
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 23 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9.1 x 0.1 inch
$336
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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!