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![Painting, Association day, Morakinyo Femi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2124042_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Waves, Christophe Jacrot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123451_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Trees and church (Bavaria), Christophe Jacrot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2123439_1_grid.jpg)
Trees and church (Bavaria)
Christophe Jacrot
Photography - 70 x 105 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 41.3 x 0 inch
$3,579
![Photography, Why Does Ice Float on Water?, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109471_1_grid.jpg)
Why Does Ice Float on Water?
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 56 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 22 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$213
![Painting, Déjeuner dans l’herbe, Serge Kalinowski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2097684_1_grid.jpg)
Déjeuner dans l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 114 x 146 x 5 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.5 x 2 inch
$3,915
![Painting, Combustion 2, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077974_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Combustion, Benjamin Carbonne](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2077971_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych, Charles Carson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076639_1_grid.jpg)
Neige d'autonome no 2 diptych
Charles Carson
Painting - 152.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 24 x 2 inch
$22,400
![Sculpture, Couple-couple I, Yiyan Zhou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2075085_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gem II, Elena Disabato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2050881_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Space granduncle’s house dining room and kitchen colour, Raffaella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000121_1_grid.jpg)
Space granduncle’s house dining room and kitchen colour
Raffaella
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,181
![Painting, Space grandfather Wang’s house garden colour, Raffaella](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2000118_1_grid.jpg)
Space grandfather Wang’s house garden colour
Raffaella
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 3 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,181
![Painting, Sparkly, Adda Donato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1992108_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Placido, Adda Donato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1992096_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Eucaryota Chromosoïc, Laurent Lamarche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/198259_1_grid.jpg)
Eucaryota Chromosoïc
Laurent Lamarche
Sculpture - 20 x 15 x 13 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.9 x 5.1 inch
$2,684
![Sculpture, Trinika, Laurent Lamarche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/198253_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Chromo in Vitro, Laurent Lamarche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/198238_1_grid.jpg)
Chromo in Vitro
Laurent Lamarche
Sculpture - 25.5 x 25.5 x 13 cm Sculpture - 10 x 10 x 5.1 inch
$2,684
![Painting, # 12, Ararat Aleksanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1971660_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Floor 2, Clément Reinaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1954347_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Koomote one: Believing in the freedom of flight, Taira Akiko Hiraguri](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1943109_1_grid.jpg)
Koomote one: Believing in the freedom of flight
Taira Akiko Hiraguri
Painting - 41 x 41 cm Painting - 16.1 x 16.1 inch
$1,734
![Painting, Poète, Michel FONTANAY](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1933401_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, February winter 1, Bill Stone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1880421_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, February winter 9, Bill Stone](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1879635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, # 17, Ararat Aleksanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1801773_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Polyptique 4 saisons bouleaux, Jeong Min Lee](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1763949_1_grid.jpg)
Polyptique 4 saisons bouleaux
Jeong Min Lee
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$403
![Painting, Shiny landscape A, Ximena Giraudi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1759341_1_grid.jpg)
Shiny landscape A
Ximena Giraudi
Painting - 135 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 53.1 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$10,671
![Photography, Territory over land, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647471_1_grid.jpg)
Territory over land
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,125
![Photography, Geological markers, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1647468_1_grid.jpg)
Geological markers
Jessica Houston
Photography - 35.6 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Photography - 14 x 20 x 1 inch
$2,125
![Fine Art Drawings, Drawing in water, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645974_1_grid.jpg)
Drawing in water
Jessica Houston
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 14 x 1 inch
$1,566
![Painting, The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody., Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645908_1_grid.jpg)
The nine of us worked things out amongst us from the beginning to end without any orders being given by anybody.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
![Painting, The steam from our own small funnel faded blue on the twilit water as we crept along under the towering pale wall of ice., Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645854_1_grid.jpg)
The steam from our own small funnel faded blue on the twilit water as we crept along under the towering pale wall of ice.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
![Painting, …last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlands that may or may not be there: Antarctica, Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645821_1_grid.jpg)
…last Thule of the South, which lies on our maps and globes like a white cloud, a void, fringed here and there with scraps of coastline, dubious capes, suppositious islands, headlands that may or may not be there: Antarctica
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
![Painting, A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910., Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645800_1_grid.jpg)
A summary report of the yelcho expedition to the antarctic, 1909-1910.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself., Jessica Houston](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1645761_1_grid.jpg)
Exposed as our camp was to every wind, we built no rigid structures above ground. We set up tents to shelter in while we dug a series of cubicles in the ice itself.
Jessica Houston
Painting - 22.9 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 9 x 12 x 2 inch
$2,013
![Photography, Backstage XI, Sven Pfrommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1562412_1_grid.jpg)
Backstage XI
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,114
![Photography, Blizzard 06, Jura, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1540662_1_grid.jpg)
Blizzard 06, Jura
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$559
![Photography, His Majesty the Pelican, Peru, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535943_1_grid.jpg)
His Majesty the Pelican, Peru
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Photography, Her Majesty the Flamingo, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535937_1_grid.jpg)
Her Majesty the Flamingo, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Photography, Evening dancer 02, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535874_1_grid.jpg)
Evening dancer 02, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Photography, Evening dancer 01, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535871_1_grid.jpg)
Evening dancer 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Photography, Evening dancer 03, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535868_1_grid.jpg)
Evening dancer 03, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Photography, Pink or black 01, Camargue, Nathan Soulez-Larivière](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535859_1_grid.jpg)
Pink or black 01, Camargue
Nathan Soulez-Larivière
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$559
![Painting, Walls - 'Free jazz (Black)' #1, Marco Guglielmi (Reimmortal)](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1526919_1_grid.jpg)
Walls - 'Free jazz (Black)' #1
Marco Guglielmi (Reimmortal)
Painting - 120 x 200 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 78.7 x 0.8 inch
$33,554
![Painting, Combo street art, Bart](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1524810_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, The Great Escape, Vava Venezia](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1517082_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sally's Getaway, Mark Jeffrey Weiss](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1516542_1_grid.jpg)
Sally's Getaway
Mark Jeffrey Weiss
Painting - 117 x 117 x 4 cm Painting - 46.1 x 46.1 x 1.6 inch
$3,724
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans Titre (DED463027), Katsuko Kuroya](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1514379_1_grid.jpg)
Sans Titre (DED463027)
Katsuko Kuroya
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$179
![Painting, Imagine Series - Hope, Sung Hee Kim](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1495704_1_grid.jpg)
Imagine Series - Hope
Sung Hee Kim
Painting - 100 x 80.3 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.6 x 0.8 inch
$7,829
![Photography, Chaos. Victoire des Bleus à la coupe du Monde 2018, Paris, France, Eric Bouvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488318_1_grid.jpg)
Chaos. Victoire des Bleus à la coupe du Monde 2018, Paris, France
Eric Bouvet
Photography - 60 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,237
![Photography, Chaos. Manifestations pro-européenne Euromaidan, 2014, Place Maidan, Kyev, Ukraine, Eric Bouvet](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1488282_1_grid.jpg)
Chaos. Manifestations pro-européenne Euromaidan, 2014, Place Maidan, Kyev, Ukraine
Eric Bouvet
Photography - 60 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,237
![Painting, L'Homme libre, Geoffrey Callènes](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1487985_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eden, Mark Fontaine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1482792_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mental overstrain, Yunha Choi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1324140_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Futuri Possibili III, Daniela Sandroni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320528_1_grid.jpg)
Futuri Possibili III
Daniela Sandroni
Painting - 48 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$6,940
![Painting, Futuri Possibili, Daniela Sandroni](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320489_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Diva III, Sven Pfrommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319232_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Backstage IX, Sven Pfrommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1319229_1_grid.jpg)
Backstage IX
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,002
![Photography, Berlin art XV, Sven Pfrommer](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1281354_1_grid.jpg)
Berlin art XV
Sven Pfrommer
Photography - 140 x 70 x 4 cm Photography - 55.1 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,555
![Print, Harley Davidson, Ary Kp](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/999675_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, AL vs LA & K, Alberto Letamendi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/989448_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Architecture et goélands, Lionel le Jeune](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/925677_1_grid.jpg)
Architecture et goélands
Lionel le Jeune
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.4 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$727
![Print, Campagne Cubaine, Jules Pascin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/607068_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La zone, Jules Pascin](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/606231_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, UrbanCat Porcelain edition, Hiro Ando](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/558634_1_grid.jpg)
UrbanCat Porcelain edition
Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 21 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,684
![Photography, Principios de la Hospitalidad I, Isabel Herrera](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179056_1_grid.jpg)
Principios de la Hospitalidad I
Isabel Herrera
Photography - 38.1 x 38.1 x 1 cm Photography - 15 x 15 x 0.4 inch
$1,957
![Painting, Sunset snowed in Paris - France Belle Epoque painting + frame, Francesco Tammaro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2177385_1_grid.jpg)
Sunset snowed in Paris - France Belle Epoque painting + frame
Francesco Tammaro
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$912
![Painting, 1 pas sur la lune, Spaco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Luciano Pavarotti - Rigoletto, Artush Voskanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174912_1_grid.jpg)
Luciano Pavarotti - Rigoletto
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$12,000
![Painting, Innocence, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167677_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, All that Jazz, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167676_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Memories, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167673_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Gold Coast 3, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167635_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, On the Surface 6, Laura Spring](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2167630_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Binary Flow 1, Bianca Caloi di Grassi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2165906_1_grid.jpg)
Binary Flow 1
Bianca Caloi di Grassi
Fine Art Drawings - 71 x 97 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 38.2 x 1.2 inch
$16,777
![Painting, Aram Khachaturyan - Gayane ballet, Artush Voskanyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2157852_1_grid.jpg)
Aram Khachaturyan - Gayane ballet
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$10,000
![Painting, NAPOleonRoom, Aperato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2156358_1_grid.jpg)
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![Painting, Disco volante Boston Terrier, Aperato](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154462_1_grid.jpg)
Disco volante Boston Terrier
Aperato
Painting - 42 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 16.5 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
![Photography, Les Waka Starz, Wakaliga, Ouganda, Frédéric Noy](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2152870_1_grid.jpg)
Les Waka Starz, Wakaliga, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$727
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![Sculpture, I think you see X, Anna Dudek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2139140_1_grid.jpg)
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![Photography, Why does ice float on water?, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109489_1_grid.jpg)
Why does ice float on water?
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 100 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$280
![Photography, David & Goliath, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109486_1_grid.jpg)
David & Goliath
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 56 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 22 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$213
![Photography, Alter egos, Grzegorz Sikorski](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2109477_1_grid.jpg)
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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!