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Stormtrooper, welcome to the dark side
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,796 $2,516
Chromatic reflections
Esteban Vera
Painting - 110 x 89.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 2 inch
$3,320
Envolving pathways
Esteban Vera
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 5.1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 2 inch
$3,420
Dressing for dance
Elena Sokolova
Painting - 50 x 70.1 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$817
Audrey Hepburn loves Andy Warhol
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,578 $3,221
Pikachu is my hero
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,796 $2,516
Doggy POP, Pink version
Patrick Cornée
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,578 $3,221
An Island in the air
Urs Lüthi
Photography - 20 x 47 x 0.3 cm Photography - 7.9 x 18.5 x 0.1 inch
$559
Canvas 179
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 122.9 x 147.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48.4 x 58.2 x 1.5 inch
$2,399
Canvas 185
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 117.9 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 46.4 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,577
Canvas 186
Frantisek Florian
Painting - 110 x 146.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 43.3 x 57.8 x 1.5 inch
$2,307
Sweet shades of memory XXVI
Naoko Paluszak
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$3,000
Silver of winter
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 100.1 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$3,600
Verlaine
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
$17,892
The beautiful midsummer night's dream
Peter Hofmann
Fine Art Drawings - 53 x 70.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.9 x 27.8 x 0 inch
$2,516
Anonimo Pank
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 115 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.3 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,236
Mountains
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.8 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1.1 inch
$3,243
Mountain
Miquel Angel Benejam
Painting - 130 x 162 x 2.8 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.1 inch
$2,684
Net for dreaming clouds
Lena Ochkalova
Painting - 110 x 76 x 0.1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$2,404
In silver
Alisa Onipchenko-Cherniakovska
Painting - 89.9 x 100.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,600
Restaurant Paris
Marco Santaniello
Painting - 61.3 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 24.1 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$5,032
Pont de pierre dans la brume
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.4 inch
$654
Absence with Earth and Green
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,572
Absence with Black and Valley
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,572
Absence with black and Ochre
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,572
Absence with Black and Horizon
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,572
Absence with Black and Fortress
Paul Lorenz
Painting - 46 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 18.1 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$2,572
Mémoire dans l'eau 10T-IX
Akané Kirimura
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$4,697
Abstract Wall Art Drawing/Painting #01092023
Michael Verlangieri
Painting - 55.9 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 22 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$4,005
Geometrical V
Luis Miguel Aparisi
Painting - 149.9 x 80 x 4.6 cm Painting - 59 x 31.5 x 1.8 inch
$2,560
Yuxtaposición (Juxtaposition)
Juan Jose Hoyos Quiles
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 1.5 inch
$2,160
Points of view III
Jessica M. Chaix
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 1.5 inch
$4,600
336 Bridge over Arno river
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 91.4 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 36 inch
$4,275
181 Before harvest
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 43.2 x 43.2 x 3.8 cm Painting - 17 x 17 x 1.5 inch
$2,200
Ecstasy of St Teresa (medium)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 84.1 x 57.7 x 0.2 cm Photography - 33.1 x 22.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,454
Into the darkness (medium)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 32.29 x 84.1 x 0.2 cm Photography - 12.7 x 33.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,454
392 spring in Capri
Anne B Schwartz
Painting - 50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 20 x 1.5 inch
$2,650
The Unseen but Always Present (1))
Alejandra Leon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
The Unseen but Always Present (2)
Alejandra Leon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Habitación 1
Alejandra Leon
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Painting research 14
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 160 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 63 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$7,604
Painting research 11
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 150 x 160 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 63 x 0.4 inch
$7,045
Painting research 10
Hongyu Zhang
Painting - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$6,821
Vintage 2 CV
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,006
Taj Mahal. India
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,230
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!