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Les mains du Ciel
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,331
Geogram 2
Hoel Gwern
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 14 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.5 x 0.1 inch
$200
R.V. (jeune poète au bidon)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 165.1 x 40.6 x 30.5 cm Sculpture - 65 x 16 x 12 inch
$14,097
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Hélène)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 175.3 x 44.5 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 69 x 17.5 x 16 inch
$12,210
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (Rosalie)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 156.2 x 41.9 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 61.5 x 16.5 x 17 inch
$11,100
Silhouette emballée et contaminée (son mari)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 174 x 76.2 x 43.2 cm Sculpture - 68.5 x 30 x 17 inch
$13,320
Mon mammifère préféré (cônes 6)
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 139.7 x 38.1 x 30.5 cm Sculpture - 55 x 15 x 12 inch
$7,326
Unsharp #02 (2)
Edin Mustafic
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,995
Unsharp #02 (1)
Edin Mustafic
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,995
Couple de grue cendré. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$888
Soleil, graine et reine des prés
Marie Labat
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$533
Linge volant et arum
Marie Labat
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$533
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
$1,554 $1,399
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
$888 $755
Le réconfort 5
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$766
Le réconfort 2
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$766
Anatomie 15
LN Le Cheviller
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$888
Personnage
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 32 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.6 x 0 inch
$333
L'érosion des Chimères
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 24 x 36 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 14.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,221
Cœur Noir & Lumière Rouge
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 27 x 38 x 3 cm Painting - 10.6 x 15 x 1.2 inch
$1,332
Caresse bleu cadium
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 22 x 32 x 2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,054
Homme dans fauteuil
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 122 x 107 x 3 cm Painting - 48 x 42.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,330
Untitled
Alexandre Taillandier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$311
Figure summary 1978 DESTOCKAGE The image expresses itself!!
Paolo Ambrosio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
$55
Ne faire plus qu'un #2
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$943
Chuter, se battre, recommencer
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 60 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,497
Illusion
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 65 x 91 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 35.8 x 1.2 inch
$2,497
Sans titre nº1
Julien Monteiro
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$375
Sans Titre (dessin)
Antoine Marquis
Fine Art Drawings - 73 x 49.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 28.7 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,219
Sans titre nº4
Julien Monteiro
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.1 inch
$366
Porter un seau à deux mains
Marie Labat
Design - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Design - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$322
Les bras chargés et oseille des prés
Marie Labat
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$533
TRITIUM 21
Yannick Bouillault
Sculpture - 49 x 26 x 26 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 10.2 x 10.2 inch
$1,332
Femme Hamer et son enfant. Ethiopie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,554
Sadhus sur les ghats de Bénarès. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Indiens Sioux. Pow Wow
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Genetic manipulation
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 70 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,664
Invocation
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,775
Paleolithic Bronze Figurine
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 23 x 10 x 6 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 3.9 x 2.4 inch
$2,719
Someone from Crazy Horse Painting
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 70 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,053
Enfant revenant des champs. Ethiopie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,554
Huile et Rouille
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,554
Relax pour les zèbres de Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Ourson brun. Quelle chaleur. Canada
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Droit dans mes bottes. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Œil d'éléphant. Inde du nord
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Une bonne sieste. Lémuriens
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Perroquet Ara. Pantanal. Brésil
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Paon à la chasse. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,443
Fin de journée sur les ballons
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,554
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.