![Painting, Objet 389, Ingrid Hornef](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692219_1_grid.jpg)
White
Save your search and find it in your favorites
Save your search to find it quickly
Saved search
Your search is accessible from the favorites tab > My favorite searches
Unsaved search
A problem occurred
![Painting, Objet 389, Ingrid Hornef](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692219_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Objet 382, Ingrid Hornef](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1692186_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Painting research 14, Hongyu Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1679739_1_grid.jpg)
Painting research 14
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 160 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 63 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$7,606
![Painting, Painting research 11, Hongyu Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678884_1_grid.jpg)
Painting research 11
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 150 x 160 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$7,046
![Painting, Painting research 10, Hongyu Zhang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1678881_1_grid.jpg)
Painting research 10
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$6,823
![Fine Art Drawings, Les ancêtres I, Soly Cissé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1648374_1_grid.jpg)
Les ancêtres I
Soly Cissé
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
![Painting, Canrag, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1620645_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Alba I, Ewa Bathelier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611315_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Plumis, Ewa Bathelier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1611312_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Hell's Mickey & Minnie, Ad Van Hassel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1608348_1_grid.jpg)
Hell's Mickey & Minnie
Ad Van Hassel
Sculpture - 33 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$252
![Print, 02.11.11, Chiara Santoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1592763_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Identity Mad, Chiara Santoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1577808_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, TT38SN, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1558809_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Photo de classe, Gwendoline Hausermann](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1552980_1_grid.jpg)
Photo de classe
Gwendoline Hausermann
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 37 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 14.6 inch
$727
![Fine Art Drawings, CTSS, Stefano Mazzolini](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1515459_1_grid.jpg)
CTSS
Stefano Mazzolini
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$559
![Painting, Composition Abstraite Ref AB0248, Jean-Marie Ledannois](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1511031_1_grid.jpg)
Composition Abstraite Ref AB0248
Jean-Marie Ledannois
Painting - 51 x 40 cm Painting - 20.1 x 15.7 inch
$559
![Painting, No Regrets, Karla Carranza](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1320498_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Spikes, Mario Pascual Cámara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1233621_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Sanctuary, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200117_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Offering. Supplication, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200114_1_grid.jpg)
Offering. Supplication
Kerry Campbell
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 7.6 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 3 inch
$2,200
![Painting, Joy II, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200108_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Joy I, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200105_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Harmony, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200090_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love drops I, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200087_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Eavesdropping. Hello., Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200084_1_grid.jpg)
Eavesdropping. Hello.
Kerry Campbell
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 7.6 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 3 inch
$2,200
![Painting, All ways, Kerry Campbell](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1200081_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Cities, Albert Castañé](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1010526_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre, Mara](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/873057_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Vélo poilu, Henrik Jacob](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/848922_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Câblages (Kabelage), Henrik Jacob](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/848916_1_grid.jpg)
Câblages (Kabelage)
Henrik Jacob
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$895
![Fine Art Drawings, Singe, Henrik Jacob](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/848913_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Entrepreneur, Henrik Jacob](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/848838_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, La voz de su amo, Joan Rabascall](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/801939_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Sans titre, Guillermo Conte](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/791871_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Angelo del Giudizio Universale serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/699066_1_grid.jpg)
Angelo del Giudizio Universale serie Omaggio a Giusto de' Menabuoi
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 48 x 66 x 0.2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$347
![Photography, Das Gelände, Isabel Devos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/687282_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chiaruscoro of still life, Lisbeth Buonanno](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2182116_1_grid.jpg)
Chiaruscoro of still life
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 40 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$1,342 $1,208
![Painting, Babylone 2, Artiste Ouvrier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2180353_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, L'homme augmenté, Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176539_1_grid.jpg)
L'homme augmenté
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Are you Humain ?, Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176538_1_grid.jpg)
Are you Humain ?
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,566
![Painting, La colère des Dieux, Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176537_1_grid.jpg)
La colère des Dieux
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Homo numericus, Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2176531_1_grid.jpg)
Homo numericus
Violeta Mouysset dite Mvili
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1 inch
$1,566
![Painting, Sin título. Serie Selvática, Dario Berterreche](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2174989_1_grid.jpg)
Sin título. Serie Selvática
Dario Berterreche
Painting - 110 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$603
![Painting, Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172783_1_grid.jpg)
Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
![Painting, White Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster, Nataliia Krykun](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2172781_1_grid.jpg)
White Heart - Love, Amour, Amore, Liebe 3D white plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 7 x 7 x 1 cm Painting - 2.8 x 2.8 x 0.4 inch
$112
![Sculpture, Fuck Mickey, Vincent Bardou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2154517_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Catacombes, Tarek](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2147089_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Place de Bellecour, Lyon, Phil](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2140177_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Boum la grenade, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2129035_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Love NYC, Cédric Bouteiller](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2128672_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Heiðin mín, Sjöfn Kolbeins](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2107335_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Chamomiles, Anush Emiryan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2086842_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, White town, 8, Ingrid Knaus](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2061837_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Evolving, Heather Robinson](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2059776_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Retro Jaws Nike Sneakers, Dervis Akdemir](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2012496_1_grid.jpg)
Retro Jaws Nike Sneakers
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 15 x 25 x 8 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 9.8 x 3.1 inch
$318
![Painting, Figure néo-moderniste - Art brut, Luco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991328_1_grid.jpg)
Figure néo-moderniste - Art brut
Luco
Painting - 65 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$559
![Painting, Quatre et quelques - Art brut, Luco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1991322_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Esperando la pesca, AVEL Muñoz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1990572_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Mikonos, AVEL Muñoz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1990551_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Marbella, AVEL Muñoz](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1990548_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Dans un ciel d'or, Raya Sorkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978713_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Portrait du peintre, Raya Sorkine](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1978665_1_grid.jpg)
Portrait du peintre
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 46 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$10,625
![Print, Sweet memories 2, Vasil Angelov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1973142_1_grid.jpg)
![Print, Back to life, back to reality, Vasil Angelov](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1967256_1_grid.jpg)
Back to life, back to reality
Vasil Angelov
Print - 70 x 100 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$828
![Sculpture, Nero. From The Visceral series, Magda Von Hanau](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1935963_1_grid.jpg)
Nero. From The Visceral series
Magda Von Hanau
Sculpture - 45.7 x 38.1 x 27.9 cm Sculpture - 18 x 15 x 11 inch
$4,500
![Painting, Pourtant, Katia Villard](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1909593_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Tempête arctique 2, Régine Heurteur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1822431_1_grid.jpg)
Tempête arctique 2
Régine Heurteur
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,901
![Painting, De lave et d’eau 1, Régine Heurteur](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1807371_1_grid.jpg)
De lave et d’eau 1
Régine Heurteur
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,342
![Fine Art Drawings, Sans titre (tea time), Christos Kalfas](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1794333_1_grid.jpg)
Sans titre (tea time)
Christos Kalfas
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$839
![Print, L'onde sonore envahit l'atelier du peintre, Jean Le Gac](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1769232_1_grid.jpg)
L'onde sonore envahit l'atelier du peintre
Jean Le Gac
Print - 76 x 56 cm Print - 29.9 x 22 inch
$615
![Sculpture, Voyou, JP Malot](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1650288_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La baraja de la suerte, Philippe Seigle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1638624_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, La baraja de la suerte, Philippe Seigle](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1638510_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Pigeon, Abdessemed Adel](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1629942_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Macba2, Katalin Soós](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1595631_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Funambule, Victor Lorenzi](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1559397_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Ella decorative box, Reda Amalou](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1535793_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Winter, Tutu Kiladze](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1520916_1_grid.jpg)
![Design, Lampe Pissenlit, Guillaume Piéchaud](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1479885_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Intimacy, Shannon Nowak](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1354986_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Long day's journey into tomorrow, Elena Raceala](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1327932_1_grid.jpg)
Long day's journey into tomorrow
Elena Raceala
Photography - 91.4 x 61 cm Photography - 36 x 24 inch
$1,342
![Photography, Le rêveur - série oiseaux, Henry Ausloos](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1292673_1_grid.jpg)
Le rêveur - série oiseaux
Henry Ausloos
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$805
![Painting, Ballerina meccanica, Alexander Daniloff](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227636_1_grid.jpg)
Ballerina meccanica
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 35 x 12 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 4.7 x 0.1 inch
$189 $161
![Painting, Montañas, Charo Velasco](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1227546_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Street in Paris 1, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182732_1_grid.jpg)
Street in Paris 1
Shengqi Tang
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$727
![Photography, Gaze in lines, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182459_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Backstage II, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182456_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Backstage I, Shengqi Tang](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1182390_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Chinese Interior #19, Robert van der Hilst](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1171734_1_grid.jpg)
Chinese Interior #19
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,013
![Painting, Glowing Breakfast in Tillett's Garden, Alexandre Idier](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1087632_1_grid.jpg)
Glowing Breakfast in Tillett's Garden
Alexandre Idier
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 2 inch
$5,480
![Fine Art Drawings, Sketch 3, Saverio Filioli Uranio](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/844029_1_grid.jpg)
Sketch 3
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$89
![Painting, Je te vois pas, Ghislaine Ferreira](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/537361_1_grid.jpg)
![Photography, Free Play 06 (Vulnerable), Hengki Koentjoro](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/509504_1_grid.jpg)
Free Play 06 (Vulnerable)
Hengki Koentjoro
Photography - 43 x 43 x 0.02 cm Photography - 16.9 x 16.9 x 0 inch
$1,063
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!