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![Painting, 21gr de bleu, Marité Bouis](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1907058_1_grid.jpg)
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Revenir
François-Xavier de Boissoudy
Painting - 57 x 42 x 3 cm Painting - 22.4 x 16.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
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La sixième montagne
Marité Bouis
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,744
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Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$671
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Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$671
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Experience d'Icare
Akira Inumaru
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$671
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$235
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Mémorial Australien de Villers-Bretonneux
Philippe Grincourt
Photography - 34 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$179
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César Archibald
Agathe Lemaire Thalazac
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 120 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,590
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Delirium Tremens
Goulwen (Leyto) Mahé
Painting - 130 x 195 x 4 cm Painting - 51.2 x 76.8 x 1.6 inch
$6,708
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Abstract winter III
Cédric Bouteiller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$2,795
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Sun rays - triptych
Ruzanna Melqumyan
Painting - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$750
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Tout est devenu flou
Tristan Morlet
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,621
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Primeras modulaciones 10
Julio Le Parc
Print - 68 x 68 x 0.02 cm Print - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$4,472
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Common Tern - Sterna hirundo
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 33 x 50 cm Photography - 13 x 19.7 inch
$235
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Black-Headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) and Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus)
Ivaylo Zafirov
Photography - 46 x 70 cm Photography - 18.1 x 27.6 inch
$302
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Trapezist
Eugene Berman
Fine Art Drawings - 23.7 x 31.8 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.3 x 12.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,230
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Schoal of fish
Dominique Jullien
Photography - 13 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 5.1 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$335
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Charlie Brown | Childhood collection
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Sculpture - 50 x 38 x 1.8 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15 x 0.7 inch
$1,225
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Colpo di sole
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,348
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Never another word
Mercedes Lagunas
Painting - 150 x 150 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0 inch
$2,890
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Tú y yo
Virginia Benedicto
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,124 $1,891
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Corazón
Virginia Benedicto
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,124 $1,891
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I love my style in Louis Vuitton
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 50 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,342
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Esponjas 8, 11 y 16
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34 x 0.8 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.4 x 0.3 inch
$1,000
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Medusas 11, 12 y 13
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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Sal 22, 23 y 24
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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Algas 11, 22 y 67
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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Algas 75, 83 Y 26
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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Algas 14, 41 y 68
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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Algas 88, 28, 87
Paola Dávila
Photography - 10.4 x 34.8 x 0.8 cm Photography - 4.1 x 13.7 x 0.3 inch
$1,000
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Desert signe LVIII (SG249)
Sylvie Guyomard
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 2 inch
$548
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Bosco della città degli alberi
Tobia Ravà
Print - 60 x 60 x 10 cm Print - 23.6 x 23.6 x 3.9 inch
$7,379
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Inner path
Saverio Filioli Uranio
Painting - 30 x 42 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$335
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Cenizas y diamantes XX
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Luna tra i rami
Antonino Puliafico
Painting - 120 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$3,186
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Cenizas y diamantes XIV
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 45 x 33 x 0.3 cm Painting - 17.7 x 13 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Cenizas y diamantes VIII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 33 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Cenizas y diamantes VII
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 33 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Reflet d'une vieille coque
Richard Bouts
Painting - 65.3 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.7 x 21.5 x 1 inch
$1,118
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Cenizas y diamantes V
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 33 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Cenizas y diamantes IV
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 33 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 13 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$600
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Cenizas y diamantes I
Cecilia Méndez Casariego
Painting - 32.8 x 45 x 0.3 cm Painting - 12.9 x 17.7 x 0.1 inch
$600
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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!