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Too much love will kill you
Yohan Storti
Print - 70 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$338 $170
Fix you 1
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
You
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$430
The bitch is back
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$430
L'ego
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$430
L’invitation au voyage III
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
L’invitation au voyage II
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
L’invitation au voyage I
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
L’important c’est d’aimer
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
Hero
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$430
Le Legacy from Historia de Don Quichotte de la Mancha
Salvador Dali
Print - 75.9 x 56.2 cm Print - 29.88 x 22.13 inch
$3,000
Neige printemps 24
Adrianna MJW
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$453
Improvisations en blanc i negre V
Antoni Tapies
Print - 104.9 x 74.9 x 0 cm Print - 41.3 x 29.5 x 0.01 inch
$4,150
This is not a Phone
Scott Troxel
Sculpture - 25.4 x 14 x 11.4 cm Sculpture - 10 x 5.5 x 4.5 inch
$736
Personnage cadac H.30cm Blanc
Parvine Curie
Sculpture - 30 x 9 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 3.5 x 3.1 inch
$1,358
Lala Wants to Stay Warm, but...
Brian Nash
Painting - 61 x 61 x 0.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 0.3 inch
$1,300
Medusa out of this world
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 85 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$1,863
Inside, outside, manque d'image
Remi Delaplace
Painting - 54 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 21.3 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$1,686
Cimes et racines / Cephalanthra
Akira Inumaru
Painting - 180 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$7,016
Eugène Delacroix
Valerio Adami
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.6 inch
$3,961
Beyond the rain-drenched streets #8
Michèle Laurence Prévost
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,811
Harry Brant in Connecticut
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
$700
Connexion musicale
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$656
Machet 1
Rodrigo Zuliani Hauck Zampol
Sculpture - 30 x 30 x 3.8 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.5 inch
$800
Arty white candleholder "Small Pearls" for 2 Candles
Irena Tone
Design - 11 x 15.5 x 9.5 cm Design - 4.3 x 6.1 x 3.7 inch
$226 $204
Gimme a smile
Jacqueline Doyle Allison
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$820
I'm all smiles
Jacqueline Doyle Allison
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$820
Vetements fall 21
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$600
Striped Ensemble
Drew Doggett
Photography - 72.4 x 91.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.5 x 36 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Vagabondages 4
Carlos Arriagada
Photography - 75 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,641
Corazòn 1 - Série Los reyes - Le coeur de la série Les Rois
Carole Aurore
Painting - 61 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,980
New York - Back to the big white apple
Arnaud Puig aka ARDPG
Painting - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,037
Think outside the box
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,924
Torrent35_8603
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$815
Torrent33_8449
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
$815
Torrent28_8264
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$815
Torrent39_9306
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$815
Torrent13_7625
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 48.3 x 32.9 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19 x 13 x 0 inch
$815
Torrent07_6913
Yasuo Kiyonaga
Photography - 32.9 x 48.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13 x 19 x 0 inch
$815
Big Bang
Jean-Pierre Fleury
Photography - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,765
Haïtienne – 1.1
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,273
Haïtienne – 1 .0
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,122
Iggy Fuck !
Franck Savoye (Francky)
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,556
Qu’a-t-on fait
Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$849
Untitled landscape (#1)
Freeman Butts
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 0.1 inch
$1,400
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!