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![Painting, Anthroporos, Guy Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2076531_1_grid.jpg)
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Witness Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,597 $4,137
![Painting, Witness Series, Guy Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1181259_1_grid.jpg)
Witness Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,597 $4,137
![Painting, Witness Series, Guy Ghazanchyan](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1155369_1_grid.jpg)
Witness Series
Guy Ghazanchyan
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$4,597 $4,137
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I Will Live, Existence series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$729
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Les mots n'ont plus de bouche
Valerio Adami
Print - 31 x 28.5 x 0.05 cm Print - 12.2 x 11.2 x 0 inch
$336 $303
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And Now Summer Has Left…
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$998
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Walking in the Forest
Anke Birnie
Sculpture - 54 x 15 x 12 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 5.9 x 4.7 inch
$3,845
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Louise
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 127 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 50 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$5,942
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Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$897
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Le commencement - série silhouettes humaines
Maryline Rigaut
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$364
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La vie en bleue - série silhouette humaine
Maryline Rigaut
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$364
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Un homme de valeur - série silhouette humaine
Maryline Rigaut
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$364
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Something is happening
Yuliy Takov
Painting - 24 x 26 x 0.2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 10.2 x 0.1 inch
$762
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Buffle sous le pont d'Agra, Taj Mahal. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
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Eglises et Minarets
Youssef El Khorib (Youcha)
Painting - 140 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$617
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Repos du Zèbre. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$897
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Lichtreflex - Rotation
Hein Gravenhorst
Photography - 30 x 30 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$1,682
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Lichtreflex - Rotation
Hein Gravenhorst
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,682
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Roots of a nation
Emmanuel Okoro
Sculpture - 46 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$3,447
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Metamorphosis
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 22 x 16 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0.8 inch
$673
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Femme au Turban
Valérie Betoulaud
Painting - 120 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,466
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Lectrice sur bord de livre Elle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 31 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,691
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La vie est belle
Udo Roosen
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,009
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Enganchado a ti
Carol Tomàs Alcaine
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$897
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Gérard Ricard
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,363
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Beer met jong op rug
Evert den Hartog
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$10,370
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Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 27 x 18 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 7.1 x 3.9 inch
$1,065
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The inmate and the Black Virgin
Olivier Massebeuf
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$504
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Les poumons fleuris
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$785
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Les seins bleus
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 16 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 6.3 inch
$1,009
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Emmanuel Okoro
Sculpture - 150 x 170 x 100 cm Sculpture - 59.1 x 66.9 x 39.4 inch
$15,908
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Wooden horse
Helga Leunig
Photography - 42 x 59 x 0.2 cm Photography - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,018
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Brandon Vickerd
Sculpture - 152.4 x 43.2 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 60 x 17 x 16 inch
$24,664
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Yuliy Takov
Painting - 20 x 22 x 0.2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$628
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Alexandre Mijatovic
Sculpture - 43 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$6,054
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Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,570
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Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,121
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Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,457
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On est notre environnement
Aline Part
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$673
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On est notre environnement (Valerie Galice)
Aline Part
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$673
Human body
'I wanted to conquer the world. But I also desperately wanted to understand human nature, and to know what was inside our bodies. To do this, I have spent whole night dissecting bodies, against the direct orders of the Pope. Nothing disgusts me. What I am looking for, truly, in all of my work and particularly in my painting, what I have looked for all my life, is to understand the mystery that is human nature' – from the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th century.
At the time of writing these notes, da Vinci had already made greater understanding of the human body the primary objective of his investigations. Dissection and study were key to his development of a holistic knowledge of anatomy, which da Vinci believed was vital to the perfect rendering of the nude figures which he painted and drew.
Little by little, the traditional image of the human figure was uprooted and in its place new ways of interpreting the body developed. Contemporary artists relentlessly questioned the traditional codes of figure drawing, liberally reworking the representation of the body to create a new image that was dislocated, geometric, deformed and disfigured.
The body as an artistic subject is at once desired, fantasised, dreamt, transformed, deformed. For painters, photographers and sculptors alike the body represents a rite of passage in their artistic development. Many people say that they most appreciate the talents of an artists by way of their control over the complexity of the figure. For example, it's clear even in Matisse's later, more abstract collages that he had perfectly mastered the human form.
Representation of the body is fundamental to Western art: first and foremost because it suggests a representation of the self, and therefore affirms the artist's own existence and coexistence with the environment that surrounds them. At the beginning of art history, the only bodies represented were the gods, supernatural beings, and spirits who had taken on human form. The body, nude or clothed, is at once one of the most widely depicted and most deeply polemical subjects in Western art (think of the scandals provoked by Courbet's 'Origins of the World', or Renoir's 'Picnic on the Grass').
The body has always been the primary subject of an array of themes, and its history is rich and ancient. Initially, depiction of the body was closely linked to religion, where the Word became flesh in Genesis, but later in more secular times the arousal of the artist when faced with the body made for an equally popular theme. Latterly the notion of the body as an object of beauty was subverted by Cubism until depictions of bodies no longer bore any resemblance to reality or made any pretence of respecting the rules of proportion.
Finally, in modern art the body has taken on an abstract shape within space, becoming one with the environment. In some instances, the body has become the artist's own support, as with Klein's models. The body as an abstract concept is tangible in many different manifestations in art, even in pieces as unassuming as some of Rothko's paintings. It remains the subject of inexhaustible inspiration and eternal debate.