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Blue roofs 22
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 2 inch
CHF 1,119
A tree for two
Tsvetan Lazarov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,678
Follow your dreams
Diederik Van Apple
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 13 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 5.1 inch
CHF 202
Richard Wagner
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
CHF 3,560
Charles And Molly
Maya Shay
Painting - 120 x 100 x 0.25 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
CHF 1,963
Gratitudes - série silhouette de femme
Francine Cordier
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,333
ES 12 Empire du signe
Pierre-Marc de Biasi
Print - 83 x 76 x 1 cm Print - 32.7 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
CHF 1,017
Forêt en Automne
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,628
Village Abstrait
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,628
La Chaise Jaune
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,729
La Chaise Rose
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,729
La Chaise Turquoise
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,628
La Chaise À Bascule
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,729
La Chaise Bleue
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,729
Coupelle de vanités
Philippe Pasqua
Sculpture - 28 x 45 x 35 cm Sculpture - 11 x 17.7 x 13.8 inch
CHF 25,430
Sin título. Serie Blanca
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 160 x 138 cm Painting - 63 x 54.3 inch
CHF 1,104
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
CHF 1,628
Say Yes to Love
Adriano Cuencas
Painting - 88 x 68 x 2.5 cm Painting - 34.6 x 26.8 x 1 inch
CHF 2,034
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
CHF 1,831
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
CHF 2,034
Passerelle 2
Muriel Bordier
Photography - 21 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.3 x 11.6 x 0 inch
CHF 682
Pavots - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 580
Pompons - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 580
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
CHF 1,190
Forêt dans l'eau
Florence Bidaud
Painting - 70 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,017
Sans titre (Bonnes fées)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 79 x 59 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.1 x 23.2 inch
CHF 1,831
Postponed due to the pandemic!
Jay-C
Print - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Print - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 4,577
White Silence
Gergana Stoyanova
Painting - 50 x 25 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 9.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,963
February lull
Gergana Stoyanova
Painting - 35 x 27 x 2 cm Painting - 13.8 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
CHF 1,139
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
CHF 1,566
Cheval fantôme - série animaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
CHF 1,780
Sculpture ART M-LOVE "Pearl Fluo"
F&G
Sculpture - 56 x 114 x 45 cm Sculpture - 22 x 44.9 x 17.7 inch
CHF 4,476
Farmhouse with Chickens
Michael Hill
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
CHF 1,433
Soleil d'hiver
Mathilde de Bellecombe
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
CHF 2,385 CHF 2,147
Franclisa
Gbemileke Blessing Adegboro
Painting - 91.9 x 91.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36.2 x 36.2 x 1 inch
CHF 1,678
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
CHF 648
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
CHF 1,221
Chronometer Series 4
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 610
Chronometer Series 2
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
CHF 610
Morning Sunbathing
Alexander Levich
Painting - 45 x 35 x 2 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13.8 x 0.8 inch
CHF 885
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!