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Hercule à l'obélisque
Ivan Theimer
Sculpture - 37 x 7 x 7 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 2.8 x 2.8 inch
$12,341
Point de fuite
Geoffrey Callènes
Painting - 60 x 73 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,907
Pandemic Spring series | May 27 2020
Alke Schmidt
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$34
Pandemic Spring series | april 28 2020 (After William Morris)
Alke Schmidt
Print - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$34
Evening talks (Conversations du soir)
Laura Makabresku
Photography - 18 x 30 cm Photography - 7.1 x 11.8 inch
$365
Saint Moreil
André Roland Brudieux
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$337
Triangle noir demi jésus
Leopoldo Nóvoa
Print - 38.5 x 53.5 x 0.3 cm Print - 15.2 x 21.1 x 0.1 inch
$393
Still life with fishes
Arayik Murdaynan
Painting - 40 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$450
White CH Tribute Candy
Julie Jaler
Sculpture - 40 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$673
Sweet forest D
Karenina Fabrizzi
Painting - 160 x 200 x 3.5 cm Painting - 63 x 78.7 x 1.4 inch
$4,129
Boss having a hair cut
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 130 x 180 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 70.9 x 1.6 inch
$6,709
Lille, des parapluies sur le regard de déesse
Jean-Yves Fremaux
Painting - 92 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,568
Winter's Breath
Bob Palmerton
Fine Art Drawings - 68.6 x 53.3 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 x 0.5 inch
$4,100
Rainy day In June L 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 155 x 85 x 4 cm Painting - 61 x 33.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,457
Sea urchin & corals #1
Jeanne Ridao
Painting - 76 x 61 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 24 x 1.2 inch
$2,693
Mood in a bouquet
Ganna Prymakova
Painting - 89.9 x 40.1 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 15.8 x 0.8 inch
$4,150
Sunset against the backdrop of a thunderstorm
Vitaliy Pryzant
Painting - 70.1 x 89.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$4,650
Slim: Blue energy 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 80 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,749
Brookside
Christopher A. Jackson
Painting - 72 x 102 x 0.3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 40.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,861
Plan F - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$561
Imbriqués - Photographie argentique - Ferteventura
Jules Gorce
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$561
Crucem portare
Jeff Robb
Photography - 115 x 115 x 2 cm Photography - 45.3 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$21,316
Rolex Submariner Black Blue
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$202
Artistic tooth - Black Leg
Hilbertas Jatkevicius
Sculpture - 18.5 x 10.4 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 7.3 x 4.1 x 3.7 inch
$292 $263
La Licorne magnifique dans sa lumineuse constellation, étoilée
Danielle Balagé
Painting - 146 x 97 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 38.2 x 0.8 inch
$6,675
Racines
Isabelle Goudin Pincin (Bizabo)
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$774
To our birth place
Jérôme Dupré la Tour
Photography - 220 x 300 cm Photography - 86.6 x 118.1 inch
$2,019
Fife Regatta 2201
Götz Göppert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$757
La vitrine
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,010
Carpe diem
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Au café de l'Ile St Louis
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 100 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,683
Sculpture lumineuse B 104
Amélie Baudin
Design - 52 x 11 x 11 cm Design - 20.5 x 4.3 x 4.3 inch
$2,805
Trio ours Keith Haring co n° 2
André Gacko
Sculpture - 80 x 25 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 9.8 x 9.1 inch
$4,151
Brume sur la seine
Gaston Sebire
Painting - 73 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,375
Centaurea parilica
Lyuben Domozetski
Painting - 28 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$516
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!