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Partir Revenir 2
Carole Fournet
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$899
Partir Revenir 1
Carole Fournet
Fine Art Drawings - 83 x 54 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 32.7 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,348
To the Stars & Back
Zdenek Legner
Sculpture - 73 x 62.5 x 25 cm Sculpture - 28.7 x 24.6 x 9.8 inch
$2,809
Belle endormie 2024
Sylvie Bourely
Sculpture - 12 x 50 x 19 cm Sculpture - 4.7 x 19.7 x 7.5 inch
$1,686
Sisters in the garden, Gardens of Resilience series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$730
Lit de fougères 1
Michael Mouque
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,112
Lit de Fougères 2
Michael Mouque
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,112
Lit de Bruyères 1
Michael Mouque
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,112
La tête dans les étoiles
Michael Mouque
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$1,112
Le Rayon de Lumière
Michael Mouque
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,686
Rebirth: Symbols of Motherhood "Being"
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.8 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.7 inch
$730
Union: Woman and Swan
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.8 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.7 inch
$730
The Perception of Love
Gago Chtchyan
Painting - 48 x 99 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$2,697
De la Serie Las Piadosas
Enriqueta Aguiló
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,101
Medu'see
FabEnt (Fabrice Entemeyer)
Sculpture - 13.5 x 11 x 18 cm Sculpture - 5.3 x 4.3 x 7.1 inch
$674
Pixelated young torso
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 44.5 x 17 x 11 cm Sculpture - 17.5 x 6.7 x 4.3 inch
$1,861
Belisama hopefully
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 85 x 41 x 17 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 16.1 x 6.7 inch
$5,618
El salto II
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 43 x 15 x 57.5 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 5.9 x 22.6 inch
$5,057
El lugar que habito III
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 54 x 22 x 77 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 8.7 x 30.3 inch
$4,832
Brigitte et ciseaux
Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch
Painting - 93 x 74 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 29.1 x 0.8 inch
$3,596
Torsion - Nu
Frédérique Maillart
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$449
Ajala Travel 2
Abdulateef Salaudeen
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,500
Hercule & Cotton Candy Light Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 25 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 9.8 inch
$2,289
Corps et Couleurs
Raslain Tariffe
Painting - 130 x 97 x 1.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 38.2 x 0.6 inch
$6,742
Miss Shrimp and grits
Marian Smith
Painting - 30.5 x 40.6 x 3 cm Painting - 12 x 16 x 1.2 inch
$1,461
She received a kiss in the soul
Reinaldo Chavez
Painting - 27.5 x 22 x 0.3 cm Painting - 10.8 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$326
The Bunny In The Window (1)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 58.4 cm Photography - 30 x 23 inch
$5,000
The Bunny In The Window
Tyler Shields
Photography - 50.8 x 38.1 cm Photography - 20 x 15 inch
$2,500
Guerrero herido
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 29.5 x 48.5 x 31 cm Sculpture - 11.6 x 19.1 x 12.2 inch
$5,731
La Grotte n°3
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$169
La Grotte n°2
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$169
La Grotte n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$169
The Princess's wedding night
Mohammad Ariyaei
Painting - 70 x 100 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
$3,933
Fashion shoot for Jalouse. A life guard, Cuba
Martin Parr
Photography - 86 x 61 x 1 cm Photography - 33.9 x 24 x 0.4 inch
$7,641
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
$2,809
Aurora di michelangelo
Davide Ricchetti
Painting - 37 x 26.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 14.6 x 10.4 x 0.2 inch
$899
Choice with whom to be. 2.. What do you see here What could it be
Tetiana Kalivoshko
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 2 inch
$8,500
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.