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Ski to have the best excuse to apres-ski!
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215
When in Rome do as the Romans do!
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215
I love you in the snow
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 142.2 x 109.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 56 x 43 x 2 inch
$8,400
Springtime Affarie in London
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 114.3 x 114.3 x 7.6 cm Painting - 45 x 45 x 3 inch
$8,000
Here comes the sun
Stephen Rowe
Painting - 152.4 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 inch
$8,750
Série: As pedras do caminho que faço
Paulo Canilhas
Painting - 150 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,220
Mount Fuji and the Heron
Leandro Frutos
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$780
L'orchestre (Zubin Metha)
Daniel Authouart
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,958
La daine d'hiver
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 30 x 40 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 15.7 x 6.7 inch
$3,732
Contemporary portrait "My General"
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2.2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.9 inch
$2,827
Mother's comfort
Emmanuel Daniel
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,500
Golden boy Hermes - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$238
The Red Step
Elena Borstein
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.05 inch
$6,220
Oia Cliffside
Elena Borstein
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.05 inch
$6,785
Lavander Gate
Elena Borstein
Fine Art Drawings - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 0.05 inch
$10,517
Ebonas I
Elena Borstein
Fine Art Drawings - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.05 inch
$7,351
Mother and child
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$5,000
Promenade au parc
Emmanuelle Tenailleau
Painting - 62 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 24.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,074
Bride for one day
Cristina Fontsare
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$679
Carton horizon
Christian Renonciat
Sculpture - 40 x 93 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 36.6 x 2.2 inch
$8,482
Pez Dispenser 1984 (after Jean-Michel Basquiat)
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$283
Watercolor on photo #7
Sanne De Wilde Bénédicte Kurzen
Photography - 21 x 14.85 cm Photography - 8.3 x 5.8 inch
$1,131
Serie Dones
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$11,309
Maternity
Miquela Vidal Barceló
Painting - 114 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 44.9 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$11,309
Medusas’ Protective Gaze
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 5.9 inch
$265
False Memory
Sergiu-Bogdan Roman
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.4 inch
$4,354
The white painting
Kitikong Tilokwattanotai
Painting - 123 x 84 x 4 cm Painting - 48.4 x 33.1 x 1.6 inch
$12,440
Alberto López Simón. Las Ventas, Madrid.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,878
Couple noir et blanc
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 51 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$452 $362
Chimigramme 26/8/77 VI „Minimal Photography“
Pierre Cordier
Photography - 50 x 50 x 5 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$19,225
Heart on white - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$113 $107
Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$113 $107
Abstraction géométrique numéro 10
Jean-Pierre Rives
Painting - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,089
The Queen's Speech
Thandiwe Muriu
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$10,178
Happiness with two suns
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$14,702
Co-owners in a meeting
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$42,408
Breakfast in paradise
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 114 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$48,063
Impro - Vision
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 146 x 114 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$44,105
Fundamental balance
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 0.8 inch
$44,105
The merchant of happiness
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$43,539
My neighbors told me
Simon Richard Halimi
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$29,969
Head of a woman
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$565
The goddess of the hunt - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 44 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
$172
Two halves make a whole - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 31 x 23 x 23 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 9.1 x 9.1 inch
$199
Spirale de Fibonacci 9
Lillia Baudo
Painting - 92 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,545
Odieuse créature
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$735
Rêverie III
Carola Orieta-Sperman
Sculpture - 64 x 74 x 66 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 29.1 x 26 inch
$12,879
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!