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Dirty magic
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.5 x 0.04 inch
$1,809
Figure_1
Agnes von Rogister
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 46 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,753
Sans titre - série poisson
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 30 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$735
Le mulet - série poisson
Alexandra Baudin
Painting - 33 x 66 x 2 cm Painting - 13 x 26 x 0.8 inch
$735
Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$3,936
Bettina Graziani 1964 Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 101.6 x 101.6 cm Photography - 40 x 40 inch
$4,015
La cage où les gens pleurent
Sandra Chevrier
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 6.7 inch
$2,092
Dans un monde en noir et blanc
Antoine Josse
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,280
Le coup de pied aux étoiles
Antoine Josse
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
Wege und Spuren #21
Stefanie Rogge
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
Ice Bar - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 cm Photography - 30 x 20 inch
$2,997
Dining At The Eagle Club - Slim Aarons Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 61 x 50.8 cm Photography - 24 x 20 inch
$2,997
Flat Layer Multi-Color
Mattia Novello
Painting - 111.8 x 111.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 44 x 44 x 2 inch
$7,500
Abstract with red purple and gold
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,481
Donald Duck x Loves PopArt?!
Koen Betjes
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$621
Le sauteur
Ariel Elizondo Lizarraga
Sculpture - 18 x 20 x 11 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 7.9 x 4.3 inch
$271
La pêche miraculeuse
Hervé Télémaque
Print - 100.1 x 81 x 0 cm Print - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.01 inch
$1,850
Abstract with red purple and gold 2
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,481
Eating frogs while watching ufos
Palina Kasino
Painting - 30 x 21 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,950
Home is just a word
Palina Kasino
Painting - 42 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$2,123
Intersections in black and white
Chuck Jones, PhD
Painting - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.1 cm Painting - 30 x 22 x 0 inch
$2,123
The sky is still there
Lars Fredriksson
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,617
Days Departed Impasse #15
Joseph Di Bella
Painting - 50.8 x 49.5 x 1 cm Painting - 20 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,123
Enso: Facing the Pitch-black Void
Takashi Murakami
Print - 46.8 x 39.8 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.4 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,997
Electric silk
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
Liquid mirror, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
Liquid mirror, part 1.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
Unmet horizons, part 4.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,712
Unmet horizons, part 3.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,676
Unmet horizons, part 2.
Veronica Giorgia Carlotta Giannini
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,766
Cacao
Laurence Hubswerlin Diradourian
Painting - 48 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$667
Abstract Mountain Vol. 8 - Decomposed
Arianna Rybcenko
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,183
Infinite Footprints I
Esther Medir
Painting - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,696
17 octobre 2022
Raymond Attanasio
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
Antiquité et baroque, l’étude à Rome
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$2,827
Dans le mille - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,120
Lumière d'Asie - série Semi-abstrait
Jackie Spaeter
Painting - 90 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$1,120
Fluide - série dripping et abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 40 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,018
Branchages - série Dripping et abstraction
Sébastien Hauduc
Painting - 110 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,555
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!