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A letter to my lost childhood
Solomon Jamy Brown
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$2,796
Stone the Crows
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 90 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,250
Untitled, in reference to Rene Magritte
Izabela Apananska
Painting - 80 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,355
Crépuscule des Loups
Christine Pultz
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$6,711
Sans Titre 18 - Ref BDNW9160
Jean-Pierre Stora
Painting - 11 x 29 cm Painting - 4.3 x 11.4 inch
$324
Sans Titre 17 - Ref BDNW9159
Jean-Pierre Stora
Painting - 16 x 32 cm Painting - 6.3 x 12.6 inch
$503
Sans Titre 4 - Ref BDNW9146
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.1 inch
$391
Sans Titre 8 - Ref BDNW9150
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 18 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.1 inch
$391
Sans Titre 9 - Ref BDNW9151
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 12.2 inch
$503
Sans Titre 15 - Ref BDNW9157
Jean-Pierre Stora
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 8.3 inch
$324
Temporal Disorder - 17
Radu Corneliu Sarion
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$559
Sans Titre (Ma pensée comme une comédie)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 103 x 67 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 26.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,796
Esprits d'Amour
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 162 x 114 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 44.9 x 1.2 inch
$5,033
The Prince
Andreas Sundgren
Photography - 105 x 140 x 0.1 cm Photography - 41.3 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$3,442
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,796
Série : Berlin nord-est / rues
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,796
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours: Buanderie dans la cour arrière
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,796
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,796
Série : Berlin nord-est / arrière-cours - Kastanienallee
Manfred Paul
Photography - 40 x 30 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$2,796
No prostitution Here Geisha
Philippe Shangti
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
$16,777
Untitled "Requiem 6",
Mahmoud Hamadani
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 77 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30.3 x 0.4 inch
$7,500
Untitled "Requiem 5",
Mahmoud Hamadani
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 77 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30.3 x 0.4 inch
$7,500
Measured Response: Biden to Putin April 2022
Lauren Naomi
Painting - 91.44 x 182.9 x 4 cm Painting - 36 x 72 x 1.6 inch
$16,162
Der duft der kurkuma
Sasa Makarova
Painting - 100 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$15,658
Hollypop 6
Iva Ivanova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$280
Hollypop 4
Iva Ivanova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$280
Hollypop 2
Iva Ivanova
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$280
White mountain top
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 76 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 29.9 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$21,139
Orange mountain top
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 60 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$17,672
Silvertop
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 60 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$17,672
Cherry mountain top
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 60 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$17,672
À travers mes yeux comme à travers une fenêtre (11)
Karine Giboulo
Sculpture - 25.4 x 16 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 10 x 6.3 x 4 inch
$3,132
Land Rover - Surf's up
Nick Veasey
Photography - 61 x 118 x 1 cm Photography - 24 x 46.5 x 0.4 inch
$15,658
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak XII
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak X
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Goldorak V
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Darth Vader
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
Sérigraphie Roboclusion Dior Air Jordan
Vincent Sabatier
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$201
2 Moulin Pont aven 22
Mario Domenicale
Painting - 25 x 35 x 0.3 cm Painting - 9.8 x 13.8 x 0.1 inch
$201
50000 Reverso Iizquierdo
Rodrigo Spinel
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 14 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$500
Urban Landscape Series #6
Lana Matsuyama
Painting - 30 x 25 x 4 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 1.6 inch
$331
La passerelle
Georges Laporte
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 23.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 9.3 inch
$391
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!