Sport
At school, we sometimes tend to oppose athletes and artists. However, sport and art often mix and sublimate each other. The meeting of these two disciplines is frequent in the history of art and more particularly in contemporary art.
Already during Antiquity, the Greeks devoted an absolute cult to the perfect athletic body. On pots and vases, artists painted the exploits of the competitors of the first Olympic Games in the 8th century BC.
Whatever the medium (photography, painting, sculpture, collage...), the musculature and the psychological state of the sportsmen, the places of training or the competitions are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for the artists. Between the representation of reality and the hijacking of a symbol, sport is a recurring theme for young artists.
Discover with Artsper our Olympic podium of artworks!
Photography is probably the first medium that comes to mind when representing sports. It is the only medium that allows us to capture images of the athletes' prowess at full speed. Thus, the shots are taken on the spot to offer a better rendering of the movement and to manage to capture the palpable tension on the field, the team cohesion, the crucial moment...
A leader of the new wave, Gerry Cranham had a career in athletics before becoming a coach. Passionate about photography, he takes pictures of the young people he coaches in order to correct their position and analyze their stride. Very quickly, he decided to convert his hobby into a real job. He became a sports photographer and quickly built a reputation as one of the leading sports photographers in England and internationally. His pictures of rugby, soccer, tennis, wrestling and swimming were published all over the world in the most prestigious magazines such as Sport Illustrated or The Observer.
But sport also inspired painters and it is found in all artistic movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1853, Gustave Courbet painted "The Wrestlers", a large oil on canvas depicting two men practicing French wrestling in the old hippodrome of the Champs Élysées. To the right, in the background, one can see the audience, cheering the athletes. Among the Impressionists, Claude Monet developed his technique with "Les Régates d'Argenteuil", an 1872 painting in which the boats are reflected in the water in a magnificent way. In modern art, Nicolas de Staël's "Les Footballeurs" represents a soccer field in the middle of a match, but in an abstract way. The players are discernible thanks to the flat colors that make up the team jerseys.
You too can bring your passions to life through contemporary sports paintings, sculptures and photographs. Discover the work of well-known and emerging artists such as Victor Spahn, Isabelle Picarel, Michel Birot, Chiara Dazi and many others...
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400 mètres à Atlanta en 48 secondes 25’
Stéphanie Guglielmetti
Sculpture - 42 x 42 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 16.5 x 1 inch
€2,200
50 m à l’eau londonienne en 21 secondes 34’
Stéphanie Guglielmetti
Sculpture - 42 x 42 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 16.5 x 1 inch
€2,200
French School - Portrait Summer La Baule 11 Beach Girls XL Impressionniste NSWE
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 80 x 80 x 3.8 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.5 inch
€2,800
Fist
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 30.5 x 0 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 12 x 0.01 inch
€273
Glove
Michael Grine
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.01 inch
€273
Mort d'un clown
Lionel Morateur
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
1988 Centenaire Roland Garros BLEUE Roland Garros Centenary BLUE
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 22 x 15 x 0.3 cm Print - 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
€950
Paris 2024
Françoise Lemaître-Leroux
Painting - 60 x 40 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 2 inch
€5,000
D’Olympie à Paris 2024
Laetitia Le Bihan
Painting - 34 x 96 x 5 cm Painting - 13.4 x 37.8 x 2 inch
€2,400
Joueur de Tennis, gravure originale
Claude Weisbuch
Print - 57 x 38 x 0.05 cm Print - 22.4 x 15 x 0 inch
€400 €360
Régate à Perros-Guirec, Bretagne
Alexei Lantsev
Print - 40 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€195
Horse & Jockey
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 91.4 x 66 x 0.5 cm Photography - 36 x 26 x 0.2 inch
€2,005
Abstract Expression -5
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 114.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 45 x 0.1 inch
€6,836
Mollige pup (Chubby puppy)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 44 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 17.3 inch
€3,450
La Montagne en colère
Luc Benedetti
Sculpture - 50 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€6,000
Les Conquérants des airs
Luc Benedetti
Sculpture - 80 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
€9,700
Warriors face off in huka-huka fight, Waurá Village, Xingu Indigenous Territory (XL)
Sebastião Salgado
Photography - 61 x 88.9 cm Photography - 24 x 35 inch
€16,861
Warriors face off in huka-huka fight, Waurá Village, Xingu Indigenous Territory (L)
Sebastião Salgado
Photography - 50.8 x 61 cm Photography - 20 x 24 inch
€10,026
Warriors face off in huka-huka fight, Waurá Village, Xingu Indigenous Territory (M)
Sebastião Salgado
Photography - 40.6 x 50.8 cm Photography - 16 x 20 inch
€9,114
Warriors face off in huka-huka fight, Waurá Village, Xingu Indigenous Territory (S)
Sebastião Salgado
Photography - 27.9 x 35.6 cm Photography - 11 x 14 inch
€8,659
En el bordillo I
Manuel Mediavilla
Sculpture - 36 x 21 x 51 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 8.3 x 20.1 inch
€3,000
1969 White Paris Blanc Bowling Bowling à Paris 2
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.5 x 52.5 cm Painting - 14.8 x 20.7 inch
€2,950 €2,655
Another Direction
Siranush Vardanyan
Painting - 130 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
€1,500
Lithographie originale de Spahn
Victor Spahn
Print - 49 x 60 x 0.3 cm Print - 19.3 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€300
Leyenda
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 140 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€13,000
Elegante. Roger Federer
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
€8,000
Atlanta Olympics - Track and Field
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - Star Athletes
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - Runner with Torch
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 inch
€1,823
Atlantic Olympics - Tennis with Cats
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 38.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 15 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - Gymnastics and Weightlifting
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 25.4 x 63.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10 x 25 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - Swimming and Running
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 25.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 10 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - Athlete with Ball
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 inch
€1,823
Atlanta Olympics - 100m Race
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 48.3 x 63.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 25 inch
€1,641
Atlanta Olympics - Cat and Torch
Judith Bledsoe
Fine Art Drawings - 63.5 x 48.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 inch
€1,823
Trotteurs sur la plage
Frank De Blok
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€2,300
Calcio
Alexander Daniloff
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€90
Bats toi, ne baisse pas les bras et tu seras libre N°4
Jacob Diboum
Painting - 30 x 24 x 1.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.6 inch
€330
Jumping over obstacles
Valeri Tsvetkov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,650
