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Nu (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW2985
Yves Tanguy
Print - 51 x 33 cm Print - 20.1 x 13 inch
$1,066
Invincible
Emily Redd
Fine Art Drawings - 86.4 x 63.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 34 x 25 x 0.1 inch
$2,900
Hellebore No. 30
Elizabeth Becker
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 inch
$150
003- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,346
Jeanne Moreau / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,154
Prayer for Kinshasa
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,907
Vieil homme à la pipe
Louis Granata
Painting - 32 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,795
Sans Titre (DED463027)
Katsuko Kuroya
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$180
Hope and happiness
John Mastrogiacomo
Photography - 40.6 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,105
Te tiny esther & coffee
Jeong Won Chun
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,668
Unconscious boundaries
Jakob Gold
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,500
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
$954
Il gioco delle parti
Artisti Vari
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,346
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
Dear Ugly Future
Volkan Aslan
Sculpture - 55 x 27 x 34 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 10.6 x 13.4 inch
$6,731
Serpente Floor Lamp
Elio Martinelli
Design - 120 x 55 x 55 cm Design - 47.2 x 21.7 x 21.7 inch
$2,019
Metal and Pulegoso Glass Table Lamp
Poliarte Studio
Design - 11 x 16 x 16 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,795 $1,436
Was für ein Glück (Gestern)
Paul Thierry
Print - 100 x 50 x 8 cm Print - 39.4 x 19.7 x 3.1 inch
$2,565
Flower Field Touch of Gold
Ans Pullens
Painting - 95 x 75 x 8 cm Painting - 37.4 x 29.5 x 3.1 inch
$6,170
Serie geisha 00082
Josep Pozo
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,019
Lesson about the cube
Stefanoiu Vasile
Sculpture - 40 x 23 x 14 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 9.1 x 5.5 inch
$2,244
Uncharted Speed
Cheraine Collette
Photography - 67 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,488
Composition _ Droving love in white
Tadas Zaicikas
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 4.6 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1.8 inch
$19,872
Rothko Chapel, Houston
Hervé Gloaguen
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$2,019
Blurry minds #2
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,886
Honey Ant Dreaming - - EDA-JC2087/22
Janice Kngwarreye Clarke
Painting - 100 x 146 cm Painting - 39.4 x 57.5 inch
$2,132
Vintage Plate from the Series of Church Domes Cupole d'Italia
Piero Fornasetti
Design - 24.5 x 24.5 x 2.5 cm Design - 9.6 x 9.6 x 1 inch
$1,122
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
$1,346
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
$4,900
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
Temps nouveaux
Yves Grandjean
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 inch
$1,907
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!