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Free Wheeling (En Roue Libre)
Flo Lysine
Painting - 55 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
£719
Olympic Connections, Olympic Games Beijing
Pier Augusto Breccia
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£497
Cardiff by night
Jodi Bieber
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£1,995
Tale bring twis / Safari
Lien Botha
Photography - 49 x 49 x 5 cm Photography - 19.3 x 19.3 x 2 inch
£1,438
3K Project - Untitled N° 07
Steeve Bauras
Photography - 80 x 53 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 20.9 x 1.6 inch
£1,797
Epicentre, Olympic Games Beijing
Alexander de Cadenet
Print - 70 x 94.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 37.2 x 0 inch
£539
2-Tour de France femmes 2022 7ème étape Sélestat - Le Markstein. La commune de Ribeauvillé
Jérémy Lempin
Photography - 50 x 70 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
£494
Spéciale Alain Prost
Jean Tourlonias
Painting - 60 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
£2,696
The frozen few 5546
Götz Göppert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 4 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
£607
Golfing in Normandy
Rody Iliesco
Painting - 81 x 195 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 76.8 x 0.8 inch
£10,783
Circuit du Nurburbring / Paris Match
Jean Tesseyre
Photography - 53 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.9 x 31.5 x 0 inch
£1,725
Bush football - Swans v. Hawks
Dinny Kemarre Kunoth
Painting - 60 x 91 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.8 inch
£1,258
Scene With A Baby Jumper
Hiroya Kurata
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.54 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
£13,493
Canoe, Olympic Games Beijing
Alberto Di Fabio
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£439
Boxers, Olympic Games Beijing
Giuseppe Gallo
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
£409
Double plongeuse
Jean-François Bollie
Sculpture - 38 x 27 x 2 cm Sculpture - 15 x 10.6 x 0.8 inch
£6,110
Pekingese Family of Dogs
Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi
Painting - 70 x 101 x 0.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.8 x 0.2 inch
£6,290
Run against the Shadow
Pawel Skurski
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
£3,145
White Bricks HS (after Kelley Walker)
Kelley Walker
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
£1,438
Course a Monaco
Christian Jaureguy
Painting - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£6,290
Le jardin des Délices
Thierry Singer de Polignac - Spencer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£33,293
Ali vs Patterson
Lawrence Schiller
Photography - 38 x 48 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
£2,530
Soccer Players in Central Park
Hilo Chen
Painting - 92.1 x 106.7 cm Painting - 36.25 x 42 inch
£63,248
The Dancer
Maurice Van Moppes
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 7.3 x 0.2 inch
£270
Series Alpine Skiing, Snowboarding, winter mountains white 3D plaster
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,797
Dévoiler le jardin secret
Linda Clerget
Painting - 73 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,348
Sumo 9
Raynald Najosky
Photography - 40 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
£1,438 £1,294
Adversary on the asphalt
Mathieu Questel
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
£4,493
Jumping over obstacles
Valeri Tsvetkov
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£2,381
Startled Bather
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 30 x 24.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
£541
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...