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"Why white?"
Color or non-color? Color or value? Sum of all colors? White-light or white-matter? Mere reserve or pure pigmentary reality? How is white used in the arts, with what intention and for what effect on our perception?
Luminous, brilliant, clear as the chalk used in the prehistoric era, white fascinates. Symbol of purity and absolute, reference of perfection, divine evocation, white has become an essential pictorial tool in the contemporary era. Sum of all colors, light or saturated, pure or mixed, it acts as a revealer: without it, the other colors do not exist.

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