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How does it feel to be famous Mr. Van Gogh?
Melinda Matyas
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$4,362
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Melinda Matyas
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,809
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Ignorance 4
Mehnoush Modonpour
Sculpture - 58 x 48 x 48 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 18.9 x 18.9 inch
$4,138
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Ignorance 3
Mehnoush Modonpour
Sculpture - 59 x 46 x 49 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 18.1 x 19.3 inch
$4,138
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Canzone Napoletana
Alexander Levich
Painting - 120 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$4,809
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Boccacce (trittico)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 14.8 x 63 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 24.8 x 0.1 inch
$168
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Homo Faber (The creator)
Melinda Matyas
Painting - 91 x 61 x 2 cm Painting - 35.8 x 24 x 0.8 inch
$5,033
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The Ides of March (Diptych), n.d. Large
Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$12,000
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Avant le combat III
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 49 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$334
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Dark sacred night
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 114 x 147 x 4 cm Painting - 44.9 x 57.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,201
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Poisson Magique
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 90 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$13,422
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2 is better than 1
Aziseh Emmanuel
Painting - 120 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,698
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Green Lantern
Benjamin Olatunji
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$6,000
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La ronde
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$378
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Extension
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$378
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Galloping Horses
Giuseppe Cominetti
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 19.1 x 0 inch
$8,388
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Hiro Ando
Sculpture - 100 x 150 x 70 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 59.1 x 27.6 inch
$26,843
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Geogram 5
Hoel Gwern
Fine Art Drawings - 19.6 x 17.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.7 x 7 x 0.1 inch
$201
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Back lighting, Blue and Green. Diptych
Dora Franco
Photography - 76.2 x 203.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 80 x 0.1 inch
$5,000
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Continent B, gravure originale
Sylviane Canini
Print - 50 x 56 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 22 x 0.4 inch
$436
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Arara III - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$7,606
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Arara II - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 144 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 56.7 x 0 inch
$7,606
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Arara - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 144 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 56.7 x 0 inch
$7,606
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Antonio Briceño
Photography - 70 x 200 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 78.7 x 0 inch
$7,606
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Barca de Refugiados
Celso Castro
Painting - 114.3 x 149.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45 x 59 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
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Unir jusqu'au ciel
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 195 x 97 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,599
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Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
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$895
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Brandon Vickerd
Sculpture - 61 x 30.5 x 27.9 cm Sculpture - 24 x 12 x 11 inch
$17,895
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Cast 2 (Muse)
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 135.1 x 124 x 2.5 cm Painting - 53.2 x 48.8 x 1 inch
$4,400
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Michael James O'Brien
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$7,000
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Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$280
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Evelyne Huet
Print - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Print - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,270
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Palais du vieux roi - Se lever dans l’obscurité
Toshihiko Ikeda
Print - 108.5 x 79.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 42.7 x 31.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,915
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Waiting For The Sun
Tinatin Bakhtadze
Painting - 115 x 165 x 3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 65 x 1.2 inch
$6,152
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Melinda Matyas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,717
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Michèle Magnien (Mileg)
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.4 inch
$280
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Jeff Robb
Photography - 98 x 98 x 2 cm Photography - 38.6 x 38.6 x 0.8 inch
$15,658
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Naomi Campbell
Thierry Le Gouès
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$6,655
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Fashion is image
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,948
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Dangerous games 5
Akif Hakan
Photography - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,948
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.