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The dreams of fisherman's wife
Danuta Turkiewicz
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
€2,500
Sensuality - Sea & rose - Italian painting
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
€315
Kate running Single Bum with Hat
Sam Haskins
Photography - 40.6 x 30.4 cm Photography - 15.98 x 11.96 inch
€11,034
Eris covered with gold
Guido Argentini
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
€9,000
L'Inconnue
Claude André Thibaud
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€3,000
Série : Rituels en Haïti - Les jeunes, Haïti
Cristina García Rodero
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
€15,500
L'arbre intérieur
Marie-Josée Roy
Sculpture - 190.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 75 x 16 x 16 inch
€7,100
Langue de danseuse
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 24 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch
€300
Double Je
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€8,300
3 Figures assises I
Pierre Yermia
Sculpture - 42 x 49 x 16 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.3 x 6.3 inch
€9,500
Big star au coeur de ma vie
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
€499
Loren Gray, Piece of work, v2
Johnathan Ball
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
€19,190
Big star mon manège à moi
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
€499
Pieles 02
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
€400
Cubism Emotions
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,060
Every man is a tree
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,060
Goddesses games #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
€8,060
Les Belles au bois dormant
Aima Saint Hunon
Sculpture - 152 x 30 x 22 cm Sculpture - 59.8 x 11.8 x 8.7 inch
€19,000
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 136 x 91.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 36 x 0 inch
€8,500
Moveo Lucidum
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
€10,800
Untitled ( red woman)
Massimo Attardi
Photography - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€4,000
Dos authentique
Laurent Castellani
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€9,500
Jeu de lumière
Laurent Castellani
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€7,500
Femme dorée sur drap bleus 2021 2054
Aldema Design & Art
Sculpture - 55 x 32 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 12.6 x 7.9 inch
€3,000
One second and seventy six milliseconds
Krikor Avessian
Sculpture - 81.7 x 41.5 x 36 cm Sculpture - 32.2 x 16.3 x 14.2 inch
€5,411 €4,870
Adam et Eve chassés de l'Eden
Lionel le Jeune
Sculpture - 29 x 24 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 9.4 x 4.7 inch
€950
Apparition Pauline
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
€2,000
Apparition chambre mauve
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 70 x 100 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
€2,000
Déshabillez-moi, 1
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
€1,600
The most beautiful links of the world
J.Léo
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€7,000
Applause for the Inevitable
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 175 x 78 x 78 cm Sculpture - 68.9 x 30.7 x 30.7 inch
€5,500
GLORY : SPECTACLE OF VICTORY
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 140 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch
€5,800
Chanson d'amour VI
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
€8,000
Éclat d'émotion
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€3,500
Metaphor
Evrim Özeskici
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 20 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
€450
Red House And Body
Danylo Movchan
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€400
Blue Shadow
Danylo Movchan
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
€400
Auto portrait, peignoir
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
€1,500
Les bonnes manières
Herve Malcom Thomas
Painting - 130 x 162 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 1.2 inch
€2,750
Aphrodite and the seabirds
Aldona Jablonska Klimczak
Painting - 80 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
€6,200
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.