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The kiss group of 8
Maria Jose Arjona
Photography - 108 x 239.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 42.5 x 94.4 x 0.1 inch
€13,582
The kiss II
Maria Jose Arjona
Photography - 99.8 x 140 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.3 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,507
The kiss I
Maria Jose Arjona
Photography - 99.8 x 140 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.3 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,507
Kisses and strokes
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€6,500
Mighty wave
Binbin Liang
Sculpture - 44 x 29 x 42 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 11.4 x 16.5 inch
€9,500 €9,025
Fragmented-Untitled 5
Ying Chen
Photography - 203.2 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 80 x 60 x 0.1 inch
€3,881
Penseur au masque d’homme
Alain Quercia
Sculpture - 31 x 21.5 x 16.5 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 8.5 x 6.5 inch
€3,600
Standing Nude
Georges-Henri Tribout
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 20.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.1 x 0 inch
€300
La Songeuse
Christian Candelier
Sculpture - 95 x 39 x 32 cm Sculpture - 37.4 x 15.4 x 12.6 inch
€12,000
Deconstruccion III
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 76 x 73.5 x 25 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 28.9 x 9.8 inch
€5,000
Deconstruccion IV
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 60.7 x 51.6 x 32 cm Sculpture - 23.9 x 20.3 x 12.6 inch
€4,400
Spontaneous Creation (part 1)
Rob Woodcox
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€3,056
Sans titre 8
Zan Donna
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
€90
Dyna
Kohlene Hendrickson
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,700
Geometry of Color Nr. 3
Lika Brutyan
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 inch
€2,183
We Are Particles (part 2)
Rob Woodcox
Photography - 101.6 x 76.2 cm Photography - 40 x 30 inch
€2,765
Portrait sur carte - Mon coeur en Italie
Valérie Evrard
Photography - 22 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€400
Devant la grille
Franck Rozet
Photography - 150 x 80 x 0.6 cm Photography - 59.1 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
€3,800
Softness of ocher
Franck Rozet
Photography - 98 x 69 x 0.6 cm Photography - 38.6 x 27.2 x 0.2 inch
€2,450
Voile d'ocre
Franck Rozet
Photography - 100 x 67 x 0.6 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 0.2 inch
€2,450
Chorégraphe d'oiseaux bronze
Grégory Poussier
Sculpture - 66 x 45 x 25 cm Sculpture - 26 x 17.7 x 9.8 inch
€9,400
Audace en mouvement
Grégory Poussier
Sculpture - 165 x 85 x 85 cm Sculpture - 65 x 33.5 x 33.5 inch
€19,900
Man in Canoe
Celso Castro
Photography - 140 x 419.9 x 2.5 cm Photography - 55.1 x 165.3 x 1 inch
€12,127
Man in Canoe 2
Celso Castro
Photography - 59.9 x 378.5 x 2.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 149 x 1 inch
€9,701
Petit déjeuner sur l’herbe
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 97 x 130 x 5 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 2 inch
€2,500 €2,250
Jeune fille aux mandarines
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 146 x 114 x 5 cm Painting - 57.5 x 44.9 x 2 inch
€3,500
Encreuse d'ombres
Grégory Poussier
Sculpture - 55 x 85 x 45 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 33.5 x 17.7 inch
€14,000
A whirlwind of emotions #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€4,354
La nymphe des sables
Franck Rozet
Photography - 100 x 67 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 26.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,450
Nude
Jean-Raymond Delpech
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
€300
Silhouette VII
Deana Nastic
Photography - 101 x 76 x 1 cm Photography - 39.8 x 29.9 x 0.4 inch
€5,300
Autroportrait avec mon ange
Zan Donna
Painting - 40 x 30 x 2.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 1 inch
€250
Les demoiselles retrouvées blanc
Olivier Masmonteil
Print - 65 x 50 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
€320
Figure Collection : Light version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 150.1 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,300
Figure Collection : Light version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 150.1 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,300
Figure Collection : Light version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 150.1 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
€2,300
Figure Collection : Light Version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 100.1 x 150.1 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
€2,300
Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 80 x 100.1 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,150
Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 100.1 x 59.9 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,150
Figure Collection : Dark Version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 100.1 x 100.1 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,150
Useful Object Cut
Mihai Florea
Painting - 120 x 70 x 30 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€2,300
Useful Object Cover
Mihai Florea
Painting - 120 x 70 x 30 cm Painting - 47.2 x 27.6 x 11.8 inch
€2,300
Erotic dream. Domination
Genia Sheyn
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€1,270
Les fous rient
Claude André Thibaud
Painting - 130 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
€3,915
Pavarti Incertitude
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 26 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€950
Pavarti Eclaircissement
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 26 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
€950
Pavarti Sous la pluie
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 34 x 17 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 6.7 x 3.9 inch
€950
Odnajde nieznane mi krainy
Malwina Jagora
Painting - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,795
Tears for life
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 160 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
€13,500
Piece of wood
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€9,000
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.