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Laguna Beach Surfers - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 cm Photography - 30 x 20 inch
$2,973
Dining At The Eagle Club - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$3,871
Les métamorphoses IX
Cécile Duchêne-Malissin
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,019
Sainte Barbe
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 39 x 59 x 0.3 cm Photography - 15.4 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
$505
Fumador hindú
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,872
Attraction désastre
Céline Achour
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,099
Arty white candleholder "Small Pearls" for 2 Candles
Irena Tone
Design - 11 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.1 x 3.7 inch
$449
The precious heartbeat
Julius Babilonia
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,776
Vanity tribute to Andy
Ron English
Sculpture - 68 x 54 x 45 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 21.3 x 17.7 inch
$15,146
Waterline (Indigo) I
Heidi Carlsen-Rogers
Painting - 61 x 91.4 x 4.6 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 1.8 inch
$2,000
White & blue skin no. 1
Anne Girault Bardaud
Painting - 120 x 80 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,973
Brelan (blanc), aquagravure en édition originale
Eduardo Arroyo
Print - 76 x 54 x 1 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,122
Je t'attends
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 46 x 19 x 12 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.5 x 4.7 inch
$729
Enso: A World Filled With silkscreen
Takashi Murakami
Print - 46.8 x 39.8 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.4 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,973
Primeras modulaciones 10
Julio Le Parc
Print - 68 x 68 x 0.02 cm Print - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$4,488
Riva degli Schiavoni, Venise
Charles Malle
Painting - 48 x 62 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.9 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$1,402
Matrix Index 2 / Gold
Colleen Wolstenholme
Sculpture - 66 x 66 x 8 cm Sculpture - 26 x 26 x 3.1 inch
$1,795
White Snowfall - 3D, textured, plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 100 x 80 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.6 inch
$2,805
Holiday UK Ceramic Container White
Kaws
Design - 41.9 x 12.7 x 8 cm Design - 16.5 x 5 x 3.1 inch
$2,244
What my eyes have seen
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,500
Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.9 x 56.2 cm Print - 29.88 x 22.13 inch
$3,000
Composition noir et blanc 6
Albert Ràfols-Casamada
Print - 38.5 x 57 x 0.1 cm Print - 15.2 x 22.4 x 0 inch
$671
Morandi or Molotoff
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 21.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 8.5 x 0 inch
$785
Baseball Bugs Bunny - The Million Home Run
Carlos Pun Art
Painting - 90 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,240
Je t’ai vu 2
Ghislaine Ferreira
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$898
Élégance
Ghislaine Ferreira
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$898
Je suis beau, non?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$898
Où suis-je ?
Ghislaine Ferreira
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$898
Figures
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$651
Mermaid
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.1 x 0 inch
$651
Topology of feelings - II
Vladimir Kolosov
Painting - 40.6 x 30.5 x 1.9 cm Painting - 16 x 12 x 0.75 inch
$590
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!