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Cloud (Angel)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,732
Cloud (Atlantic tropical cyclons 1954-2021)
Robbie Cornelissen
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 41.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,732
Arkitekton 7, 11 of 25
Paul Anton
Sculpture - 14 x 12 x 16 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 4.7 x 6.3 inch
$2,302
Tectonia P1, 4 of 7
Paul Anton
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,489
Zimmer I
Olivier Furter
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,332
La piscine et le toit
Didier Colomès
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,665
Freedom in confinement
Imogen Hope
Painting - 55 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,941
Take A Chance
Karen Elizabeth Branco
Painting - 60.96 x 91.44 x 1.9 cm Painting - 24 x 36 x 0.7 inch
$2,320
Cimetiere 03
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$4,995
Cimetiere 02
Ismaël Kachtihi del Moral
Painting - 160 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$4,995
Jack Climbs Out of the Box
Evelyn Morgan
Painting - 120 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,217
Où est Charlie ? VII
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$139
Le petit Prince des Pétillantes
Véronique Clanet
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 23 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 9.1 inch
$3,552
True North / Rose des vents
Ginette Legaré
Sculpture - 35.6 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 1.5 inch
$1,776
Nos pradjos da vida
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 110 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$3,885
Tomados em Afagas da Lua
Sebastiao Rodriques
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$3,274
I love Chanel bottle graffiti
Fred Meurice
Sculpture - 21 x 14 x 6 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 5.5 x 2.4 inch
$1,776
Paysages de Chine 8
Guoquan Zeng
Painting - 40 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,996
Shoes, Fashion victim, Converse, G30 - Composition numérique
Danielle Aspis
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$977
Shoes, Fashion victim, Stan, G17 - Composition numérique
Danielle Aspis
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$977
Bitcoin X Shoot the bank
JP Malot
Painting - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,443
In Search of Balance N3
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$1,332
In Search of Balance N2
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$1,332
In Search of Balance N1
Anna Kazmina
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 37 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 14.6 x 0 inch
$1,332
Fuego Amigo - Pendant Lights
Amarist
Design - 54 x 10 x 10 cm Design - 21.3 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$30,524
White Horse: Illumination
Valeria Radzievska
Painting - 91.4 x 71.1 x 2 cm Painting - 36 x 28 x 0.8 inch
$1,800
Invasion martienne
André Robillard
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 78 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,775
By the stream
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 34.8 x 49.8 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.7 x 19.6 x 1 inch
$900
Snowy
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$1,900
Blinded by the sun
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 37.8 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.9 x 22 x 1 inch
$1,300
Winter stream
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 37.8 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.9 x 22 x 1 inch
$1,400
Let's go faster
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 40.9 x 58.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 23.2 x 1 inch
$2,000
Silence
Maksym Kisilov
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42.9 x 2.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.9 x 1 inch
$1,000
Swan_01
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,390
Snow in Canada_08
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 38.1 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,711
Snow in Canada_07
Helal Uddin
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 15 x 0.1 inch
$1,179
The Cat
Marie-Paulette Lagosse
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 10 x 0 inch
$943
The Cat
Marie-Paulette Lagosse
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 33 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 13 x 0 inch
$943
Chemin de Vie Nr 191001
Kardesch
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$5,550
From the series "Bodies"
Andrius Erminas
Sculpture - 155 x 60 x 35 cm Sculpture - 61 x 23.6 x 13.8 inch
$2,220
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!