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Encre II
Maylis Bourdet
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 44 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 17.3 x 0.4 inch
$626
Liquid Life Series n3.
Rosario Briones
Painting - 230.9 x 148.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 90.9 x 58.6 x 0.1 inch
$4,800
Ondulazioni vibratorie
Piero Cipolat
Sculpture - 122 x 122 x 5 cm Sculpture - 48 x 48 x 2 inch
$7,085 $6,377
La pêche miraculeuse d’Argungu, Nigeria
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,342
Nature morte
Serge Plagnol
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$559
La scintillante
Elizabeth Portnova
Sculpture - 30 x 26 x 16 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 10.2 x 6.3 inch
$1,174
Pigui
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$559 $503
Gnomat
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$559 $503
Surf the channel 4
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$671
Surf the channel 10
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 20 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$671
Virement de bord - Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$839
A vol d'oiseaux 2 - Paysage marin et voiliers
Anne-Marie Bernardi
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$839
Fuego Amigo - Pendant Lights
Amarist
Design - 54 x 10 x 10 cm Design - 21.3 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$30,758
Jusqu'à la lie - série objets détournés
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$559
Trois merveilles - série Végétal
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$727
Cafè in Kiev
Reynold Arnould
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 26.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
$615
Hide & seek Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.8 inch
$7,600
No time for reflection
Newel Hunter
Painting - 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 48 x 1.5 inch
$5,950
Face to Face Diptych
Newel Hunter
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 2 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.8 inch
$7,700
Abstract Horizone - Diamond Series K1GR4
Roger König
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$14,708
Strange dances 2.
Iryna Kastsova
Painting - 100 x 76 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 29.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,767
Miami Beach NYE.
Luca Artioli
Photography - 114.3 x 177.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 45 x 70 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
C'est qui le patron
Sandra Paris
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$200
Abstract Green Elegance Part 2 LPT2
Roger König
Painting - 130 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$14,540
Landscape with river and bridge
Harrie Sijbers
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$3,803
Sea Horse
Alexandra Kapogianni-Beth
Sculpture - 30 x 42 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 16.5 x 3.5 inch
$3,411
La solitude n'existe pas
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,342
Les robots à cocktails
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$895
L'embarquement
Pierre Gély-Fort
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$895
008- Série Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
007-Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
006- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
005- Les petits peuples de Sibérie
Jacques Langevin
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,342
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!