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Delicate flowers
Natalie Shiporina
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,467
I'm never going to look back
Haydee Torres
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$715
Les trois demoiselles
Robert Koumassadouno
Painting - 110 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 43.3 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,398
Nu lettriste enrichi par le temps
Maurice Lemaître
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$783
Nu lettriste enrichi par le temps
Maurice Lemaître
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$615
No55 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0 inch
$2,930
Photographie "Arche"
Franck Leclerc
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$772
No45 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
la légèreté
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,930
Those who feel
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 40 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$492
Skirmisher
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$492
No47 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0 inch
$2,930
l' amie
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
No31 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
WetWay
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
Hills
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
La tête
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 96 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 37.8 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,930
Allegra
Nimrod Messeg
Sculpture - 147 x 71 x 45 cm Sculpture - 57.9 x 28 x 17.7 inch
$17,895 $16,106
Voir Venise...
Edward Vandaele
Sculpture - 70 x 76 x 40 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 29.9 x 15.7 inch
$7,382
La Salamandre - Série Matière et corps de femme
Karine Azoulay (1kazou)
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,796
Lectrice sur 4 grimoires Être
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 55 x 34 x 23 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 13.4 x 9.1 inch
$10,961
Entrelacs Flammes Dance série 98 Fusion corporelle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 98 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
Entrelacs dance bicolore série 101 Fusion corporelle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 101 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
Entrelacs Flammes série 101 Fusion corporelle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 101 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
Changing room
Suthamma (Ta) Byrne
Painting - 120 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$3,881
Try walking in my shoes.
Elena Shichko
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,020
Sin título (Identity Assertions Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 20 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.9 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$671
Engulfment Cartagena 9
Javier Rey
Photography - 110 x 165 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 65 x 0.1 inch
$2,550
An insipid notion triptych
Javier Rey
Photography - 80 x 159 x 0.3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 62.6 x 0.1 inch
$3,375
Praticare autoerotismo per risolversi i problemi
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 36.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 14.4 x 0.1 inch
$280
Santa María (Baño)
Paola Dávila
Photography - 22.9 x 20.3 x 2.5 cm Photography - 9 x 8 x 1 inch
$1,200
Nak D, Ana-Son
Nicolas Boutruche
Photography - 160 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 63 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,152
Nak D, Ash-Ana
Nicolas Boutruche
Photography - 160 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 63 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$6,152
The Cyclops
Louis Berthomme Saint-Andre
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 23 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$280
Untitled TV I
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 55.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 22 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Sans titre (Un jour, une photo)
Aline Part
Photography - 67 x 50 x 0.2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$559
A look through the worlds
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,908
Lost and found
Cécile Plaisance
Photography - 70 x 57 x 4 cm Photography - 27.6 x 22.4 x 1.6 inch
$8,388
The Barefoot Dance
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,082
Gynécée
Nicolas Boutruche
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$7,046
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.