Description
White Figures – bright masses in a dark core
Painting on canvas compresses white masses into a dark vertical core running down the middle of a grey field spilled with runs: wall art whose title promises figures the canvas never delivers.
Technique and texture
The ground is thinned and led downward, so genuine streams have formed and travel to the lower edge. The white masses are the thickest places on the canvas and are chipped in parts, which reveals a black layer beneath them. Between the masses the colour is dispersed into small droplets that give the surface its grain.
The motif
The masses are arranged in a loose vertical file and not one of them is given an outline or a detail. Despite the title there is no figure depicted anywhere — the shapes stay pure masses of colour. The dark core holds them together and gives them a shared axis, while the grey lightens around it and passes to almost white at the edges.
Setting and placement
A black-and-white base is neutral, so this one enters an already furnished room without argument. The masses run down a single axis, and a tall thin wall lets that axis do its work uninterrupted.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thinned ground with real runs, thickest chipped white masses, dispersed droplet grain
- Palette: white, grey, black, near-white
- Ideal for: hallways, studies, bedrooms
- Character: neutral, vertical, spilled
Choose the size that suits your wall.
For tall, narrow walls
The white masses of White Figures line up along one vertical axis, so the painting wants a tall, narrow wall. It is painted in 14 portrait sizes, from 40 x 60 to 180 x 275 cm. For a hallway wall choose 50 x 75 or 60 x 90 cm, above a 105 cm console 70 x 105 cm, beside a wardrobe or a bed 80 x 120 cm, and on a stairwell wall 120 x 180 or 140 x 210 cm – each time about two thirds of the width you have. Pick YES under Stretcher and the black, white and grey canvas with its runs arrives stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame for White Figures is chosen separately, as the Frame menu starts at Without frame. White Figures is delivered in 15–45 days.
The thinned grey runs, the thick white masses and the chipped spots with black showing through are hand-painted on canvas, so White Figures is not a print.
About White Figures
Which size of White Figures suits a hallway?
For a hallway wall about 90 cm wide choose White Figures in 60 x 90 cm, and for a narrower one 50 x 75 cm.
Is White Figures a print?
No. The grey runs came from thinned paint, and the white masses are thick enough to chip in places and reveal a black layer, which no print can do.
Does White Figures arrive ready to hang?
Yes – select YES under Stretcher and the canvas with the white masses is stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I order White Figures in a different size?
If White Figures works for you in none of its 14 sizes from 40 x 60 to 180 x 275 cm, see our paintings made to order and send us your measurements.
