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Foot Musik
Roberto Matta
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 78 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 30.7 inch
$10,062
Still Life in White
Yuriy Demiyanov
Painting - 60 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$4,248
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
OMO: Untitled 15
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
L'homme bleu à la cigarette 3
Lila Maroun Frem
Painting - 25 x 25 x 1.5 cm Painting - 9.8 x 9.8 x 0.6 inch
$1,565
Seeking Calm - No 11
Maria Mueller Atelier
Design - 10 x 10 x 0.3 cm Design - 3.9 x 3.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,266
The Curve is the Shortest Path to Beauty
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 120 x 80 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 inch
$1,565
Les déchirées, B-Side
Nagsoul
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$1,677
Passages #812
Nagsoul
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 100 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,677
Cascade of White
Drew Doggett
Photography - 96.5 x 144.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 38 x 57 x 0.1 inch
$5,750
Uncharted
Drew Doggett
Photography - 71.8 x 144.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.25 x 57 x 0.1 inch
$5,750
The Whiskey Call
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.75 inch
$32,580
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (12)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (10)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (9)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (8)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (4)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste (1)
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
Planète Mélancolie - livre d’artiste
Julie Ruelle
Print - 28 x 20 x 2.5 cm Print - 11 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$559
A Woman on a Blitch
Michael Gorban
Painting - 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1 inch
$3,913
Circus circus.be, série les déchirés
Nagsoul
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,789
Il me dit que je suis belle
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$615
I’m getting old
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$615
Pour que tu m’aimes encore
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$615
Parler d’ma vie
Yohan Storti
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$615
Basal Elements. Of life
Ariadna Dane
Painting - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$1,156
Peinture 11-2023-70
Alain Bécanne
Painting - 100 x 150 x 4.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.8 inch
$1,677
Inevitable Coincidence
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 29 x 21 x 1 cm Painting - 11.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,263
Left (paper) pieces : between A and B
Hansol Yoon
Painting - 38.7 x 26.7 x 1 cm Painting - 15.2 x 10.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,442
The Business Stormtrooper
Ian Philip
Sculpture - 65 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$4,360
Triangle du Tacul
Jean Jacques Boimond
Painting - 34 x 24.5 x 2 cm Painting - 13.4 x 9.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,050
Sans titre Ref (350)
Nicolas Dubreuille
Painting - 95 x 88 x 3 cm Painting - 37.4 x 34.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,913
Atelier de porcelaine I
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$671
Fours traditionnel à bois pour le porcelaine
Feng Hatat
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$559
The Swan Lake of Love
Yasna Godovanik
Painting - 100 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,398
Shore Break
Bernard Biancotto
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$671
Natural Springs
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.05 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$436 $392
The one who loves you a lot 24
Poonam Choudhary
Painting - 121.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm Painting - 48 x 60 x 2 inch
$1,550 $1,395
Poolside social
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
A poolside story
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
Nelda and friends
Slim Aarons
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
Poolside gathering
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,180
Helen & Nelda by the Pool
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 31 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$1,845
Poolside dreams
Slim Aarons
Photography - 31 x 41 x 0.01 cm Photography - 12.2 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$1,845
Party on the steps
Slim Aarons
Photography - 41 x 30 x 0.01 cm Photography - 16.1 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,845
Ocean Escape
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$2,350
Speckled Crest
Drew Doggett
Photography - 45.7 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 18 x 27 x 0.1 inch
$1,900
Through the Falls
Drew Doggett
Photography - 68.6 x 45.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 18 x 0.1 inch
$1,650
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!