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Buste de Minotaure
Fabien Hemard
Painting - 130 x 81 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 1.6 inch
€3,700
De force et de dentelle
Ledentelier
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,800
Purple papaya
Prisca Akua Kwaning
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,651
Meet me in the middle
Prisca Akua Kwaning
Painting - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,465
Atlanta high museum
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,881
Techno punk skull (diptych)
Pierluigi Coppola Anderson
Painting - 60 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,200
Apple china (blue wave)
Li Lihong
Sculpture - 45 x 39 x 39 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 15.4 x 15.4 inch
€18,000
Línea Bloques
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 19 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
€388
Línea Aparejo (Framed)
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 19 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
€388
Ghost Ship
Susan Wolfe Huppman
Painting - 152.4 x 182.9 x 6.4 cm Painting - 60 x 72 x 2.5 inch
€7,567
Sans titre 2
Thierry Valencin
Photography - 32 x 40 x 3 cm Photography - 12.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
€980
Partition de printemps
Odette Muller
Painting - 40 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€1,000
Ref. 1524 - Untitled
Mehdi Dashti
Painting - 148 x 110 x 5 cm Painting - 58.3 x 43.3 x 2 inch
€4,500
Porsche 75th years anniversary Helmet
Ian Philip
Sculpture - 7 x 5 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 2.8 x 2 x 2.2 inch
€2,800
La Sainte-Victoire
Sébastien Arcouet
Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
€630
Angel Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
€999
Rules of Fight Club - Handmade sculpture for home decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 30 x 18 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.1 x 3.9 inch
€160
Arbre sous la neige
Nadine de Lespinats
Painting - 46 x 55 x 3 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 1.2 inch
€660
Above the Clouds #3
Cody Choi
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0 inch
€808
Neocubistic Study II
Alexander Valchev
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€320
Seen from above
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,910
Unexpected fish
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€2,402
Sea of thieve
Jacqueline Perez Saleh
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
€3,317
Urban Patterns - 5-panels
Carl McGrady
Painting - 61 x 165.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 65 x 1 inch
€5,336
Blurry minds #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,355
Selfportrait 16
Christian Dugardeyn
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Bird
Martin Bradley
Fine Art Drawings - 75 x 57 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 22.4 x 0.1 inch
€3,200
The plow on the fields
André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Print - 32 x 23 x 0.1 cm Print - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0 inch
€590
Soledad del frontera
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.4 inch
€2,184
Rhapsodies of Praise I
Katayoon Firouzi
Painting - 61 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.6 inch
€3,641
Aprop dels teus silencis
Joanpere Massana
Painting - 80 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
€3,350
Golden light
Khrystyna Kozyuk
Painting - 121.9 x 139.7 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 55 x 1.5 inch
€2,425
La Mezzana
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.7 x 0 inch
€400
Between The Light - Neon Lemon V1
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€10,481
Between The Light - Titanium on Viridian V1 Edit
Sophie Derrick
Painting - 180 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 70.9 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€10,481
Peau de mur 26
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
€2,060
Peau de Mur 23
Pascale Morelot-Palu
Painting - 116 x 89 x 3 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.2 inch
€2,960
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!