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![Sculpture, Ballerina, Valay Shende](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205698_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vivent les animaux X Brigitte Bardot, Jérôme Mesnager](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2203849_1_grid.jpg)
Vivent les animaux X Brigitte Bardot
Jérôme Mesnager
Painting - 50 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$3,915
![Painting, Emerald Coast, Gagik Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202012_1_grid.jpg)
Emerald Coast
Gagik Ghazanchyan
Painting - 80 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,915 $3,523
![Painting, Autum birch trees, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198582_1_grid.jpg)
Autum birch trees
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 72 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 28.3 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,297
![Painting, Dandelion II, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196830_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Moon night cloud, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196727_1_grid.jpg)
Moon night cloud
Alvaro Petritoli
Painting - 31 x 39 x 3 cm Painting - 12.2 x 15.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,241
![Painting, It’s Not So Black and White, Laura Harris](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196437_1_grid.jpg)
It’s Not So Black and White
Laura Harris
Painting - 91 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 35.8 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$4,815
![Painting, 4 moons, Alvaro Petritoli](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196219_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Moonwalk on wheels 2, Guillaume Nicolaou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191904_1_grid.jpg)
Moonwalk on wheels 2
Guillaume Nicolaou
Sculpture - 150 x 70 x 12 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 27.6 x 4.7 inch
$3,579
![Painting, We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187528_1_grid.jpg)
We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 150 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$6,979
![Painting, Worksite, Ludovic Mercher](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156741_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, A dream of imperfections / Totem 2, White, Guillaume Nicolaou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2137979_1_grid.jpg)
A dream of imperfections / Totem 2, White
Guillaume Nicolaou
Painting - 160 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 2 inch
$2,349
![Painting, Hombre del torrente, de la serie Wrong way to heaven, Gustavo Díaz Sosa](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208403_1_grid.jpg)
Hombre del torrente, de la serie Wrong way to heaven
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Painting - 130 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
$12,639
![Sculpture, Skate Board 3, George Heidweiller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206722_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Atmosphère 1/2/3, Hervé Souffi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2205913_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, ST1, Koba](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194364_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192462_1_grid.jpg)
Series “Between Heaven and Earth” - turquoise blue
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 150 x 200 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 78.7 x 1.6 inch
$11,185
![Painting, I Am Beautiful - Swan - Lake, Trayko Popov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189745_1_grid.jpg)
I Am Beautiful - Swan - Lake
Trayko Popov
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
![Painting, 17, Victoria Shani](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189202_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Orientation, Christophe Hohler](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/941760_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, CET-23, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213082_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hope Dog, MrHope](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208215_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Verry Funny, Jofo](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Audi type A, Angélique Dufossé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199222_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo 9, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198500_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Mont Fuji, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198484_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Porsche 911 930 Turbo, Angélique Dufossé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198389_1_grid.jpg)
Porsche 911 930 Turbo
Angélique Dufossé
Painting - 50 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,778
![Photography, Tokyo II, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198113_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Tokyo III, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198112_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Poissons, Raynald Najosky](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198108_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Au loin, Richard Poumelin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195376_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Scottish Blackface Ram (Ovis Aries), Barry Davies](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192625_1_grid.jpg)
Scottish Blackface Ram (Ovis Aries)
Barry Davies
Sculpture - 60 x 62 x 42 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 24.4 x 16.5 inch
$6,934
![Print, Coeur blanc double cage or02, Nhico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187465_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Coeur blanc brise cage or02, Nhico](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187460_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso), Dr. Love](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186419_1_grid.jpg)
Le vol de la paix (a tribute to Picasso)
Dr. Love
Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$56
![Painting, Steady as she goes, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186204_1_grid.jpg)
Steady as she goes
Newel Hunter
Painting - 111.8 x 88.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 44 x 35 x 0.2 inch
$5,950
![Painting, Perfect Timing, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186186_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Just In Time, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186173_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Nighthawks, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186170_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Infinite Flow, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186163_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Adrift, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186161_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Seduction, Newel Hunter](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2186159_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Awesome Dreamworld XL 1, Peter Nottrott](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2213518_1_grid.jpg)
Awesome Dreamworld XL 1
Peter Nottrott
Painting - 105 x 155 x 4 cm Painting - 41.3 x 61 x 1.6 inch
$2,673
![Painting, Implacable, Yaz Tazi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210865_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Beer & Cigar what else ?, Eddy Vitalone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209175_1_grid.jpg)
Beer & Cigar what else ?
Eddy Vitalone
Painting - 117 x 98 x 5 cm Painting - 46.1 x 38.6 x 2 inch
$5,033
![Painting, Petit chemin de campagne, Marianne Quinzin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208209_1_grid.jpg)
Petit chemin de campagne
Marianne Quinzin
Painting - 50 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$1,118
![Painting, Features of simultaneous interpreting, Tanya Grinevich](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2200159_1_grid.jpg)
Features of simultaneous interpreting
Tanya Grinevich
Painting - 254 x 254 x 5.1 cm Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 inch
$6,040
![Painting, Saluti, Virginia Benedicto](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2196094_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Expansion no. 25, César Baldaccini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2191113_1_grid.jpg)
Expansion no. 25
César Baldaccini
Sculpture - 187.5 x 110 x 20 cm Sculpture - 73.8 x 43.3 x 7.9 inch
$50,331
![Painting, 3TET-20, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2210293_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Image drawing: Growth lightbox, Jenny Owens](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209725_1_grid.jpg)
Image drawing: Growth lightbox
Jenny Owens
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.8 inch
$503
![Painting, TBCC-24, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208702_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hypomnema 2, Wall sculpture, Ivan Castiblanco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207895_1_grid.jpg)
Hypomnema 2, Wall sculpture
Ivan Castiblanco
Sculpture - 74.9 x 74.9 x 33.8 cm Sculpture - 29.5 x 29.5 x 13.3 inch
$2,500
![Painting, Dandelion World, Christian Frederiksen](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198134_1_grid.jpg)
Dandelion World
Christian Frederiksen
Painting - 10 x 15 x 0.5 cm Painting - 3.9 x 5.9 x 0.2 inch
$816
![Sculpture, CCTV, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197161_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Mask, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197157_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Vitriol, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197149_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Camo 45 II, Thandiwe Muriu](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193605_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Coco, Foucaud Stéphane](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189355_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Karl, Sadie & Bicker, Ralph Steadman](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188950_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Le Cordier, Paul de Chatelperron](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2188237_1_grid.jpg)
Le Cordier
Paul de Chatelperron
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 114 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 44.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,115
![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 66, Lucio Forte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187784_1_grid.jpg)
Untitled 66
Lucio Forte
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 13 x 0 inch
$112
![Print, L 1977-3, Hans Hartung](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/389612_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Jardín de las flores, Laura Rubio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212476_1_grid.jpg)
Jardín de las flores
Laura Rubio
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$7,606
![Print, The way home, Tetiana Ocheredko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2211295_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Borodyanka, Tetiana Ocheredko](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208776_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Laundry Time, Gegham Hunanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207175_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ballade printaniere, G.Graam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206798_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Peurs et desirs, G.Graam](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2206614_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Glitch #04. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2199703_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #04. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 17 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm Design - 6.7 x 2.7 x 2.7 inch
$1,300
![Design, Glitch #03. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198929_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #03. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 15.7 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm Design - 6.2 x 2.7 x 2.7 inch
$1,300
![Design, Glitch #02. From the series Glitch, Yongwon Noh](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2197864_1_grid.jpg)
Glitch #02. From the series Glitch
Yongwon Noh
Design - 18.8 x 8.9 x 8.9 cm Design - 7.4 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$1,300
![Painting, Black & white tetris, Hayvon](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2193730_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8), Julien Delagrange](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187529_1_grid.jpg)
Metaphysical weight (2) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (8)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 180 x 120 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$7,382
![Painting, Vertical view over the sea - Positano painting Italy, Gianni Di Guida](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2209346_1_grid.jpg)
Vertical view over the sea - Positano painting Italy
Gianni Di Guida
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$531
![Painting, CBS-16, Martin Singer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2207773_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marilyn sadness, Mr Cute](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2195550_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Positif, Mathieu Piffeteau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187791_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Ovoïde, Mathieu Piffeteau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187779_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'Angélus, Alben](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183373_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Snoopy pensif, Âme Sauvage](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2212869_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, I Like You, Lee Yu Min](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2208463_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Voix de secours, Cécile Desserle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2202229_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, K.O., Jean-Philippe Berger](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198062_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Girls love Banksy, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2192570_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tribute to Picasso, M. Asuncion Raventos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2190484_1_grid.jpg)
Tribute to Picasso
M. Asuncion Raventos
Painting - 97 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 38.2 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,132
![Painting, Silencieusement, elle glissait sur l’air, Maylis Bourdet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189961_1_grid.jpg)
Silencieusement, elle glissait sur l’air
Maylis Bourdet
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,521
![Painting, The sleepy (1), Tarek Butayhi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189621_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Subway, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2189413_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Vivacité, Never](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187568_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Saturation, Never](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2187562_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Breeze - Arm Chair, Poonam Choudhary](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2178456_1_grid.jpg)
Breeze - Arm Chair
Poonam Choudhary
Design - 73.7 x 65 x 82 cm Design - 29 x 25.6 x 32.3 inch
$1,500
![Painting, Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2166286_1_grid.jpg)
Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,237
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!