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What will tomorrow be? 2
Aziseh Emmanuel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
£3,377
Courtyard in Greece
Evgeny Chernyakovsky
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,327
Hommages au soleil
Patrick Delorme
Painting - 39 x 29 x 0.01 cm Painting - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0 inch
£560
Every night without you is a lost night
Ivan Peev
Painting - 65 x 46.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.3 inch
£533
I am a Passenger 5
Javier Rey
Photography - 110 x 73 x 0.3 cm Photography - 43.3 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch
£1,203
Sans titre, ni mots, ni voix
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 74 x 93 x 2 cm Painting - 29.1 x 36.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,733
I am a Passenger 8
Javier Rey
Photography - 165 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 65 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
£2,032
Blue Heaven
Sandra Salamonová
Photography - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
£604
Territory 33
Jarmila Kostliva
Photography - 61 x 41 x 0.2 cm Photography - 24 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
£498
Pomegranates and sunshine
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 80 x 120 x 6 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 2.4 inch
£2,450
Minorque, 25/10/2018, 20h45
Evgeniya Buravleva
Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
£1,333
Gardens of delight 27
Magdalena Nalecz
Painting - 38 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 15 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
£755
Hope - For Mather Nature and Human Kind
Sarah Arensi
Painting - 160 x 210 x 0.1 cm Painting - 63 x 82.7 x 0 inch
£15,943
Village provençale
Patricia de Boysson
Painting - 54 x 75 x 2 cm Painting - 21.3 x 29.5 x 0.8 inch
£3,555
Le surfer solitaire
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0.2 inch
£2,799
Untitled- Portrait
Celso Castro
Painting - 121.9 x 92.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 48 x 36.5 x 0.1 inch
£2,073
September's Sun
Alexandr Kryushyn
Painting - 60 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
£2,844
Sparkle among the ferns
Rachael Dalzell
Painting - 135 x 155 x 6 cm Painting - 53.1 x 61 x 2.4 inch
£4,950
Human power
Cekyka Art
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.02 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£266
Soleil Japonais sur Jungle
Baptiste Laurent
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 27 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 10.6 x 0.1 inch
£284
Ampoules...
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
£1,244
Path To Paradise
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£284
Magical Woods
Ellie Sass (Sassayiannis)
Photography - 30 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0 inch
£284
Le Plongeur céleste
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0.2 inch
£2,799
Intime résidence
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 64 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 25.2 x 0 inch
£844
Les choses qui arriveront
Amor de Agua
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
£267
Utopia
Who doesn't dream of an ideal society, where everyone would live happily and in perfect harmony? The word "utopia" was coined by the writer Thomas More in 1516 in his eponymous novel. In this book, he describes an imaginary island and presents the way that it's run as the ideal way to govern a society. Although the term is a neologism, derived from the Greek word for "nowhere", the concept of a paradise dates back much further. Plato, for example, wrote about it with his city "Callipolis". The word gradually evolved into its current meaning of a perfect world, with an underlying implication that such a world is unattainable. In this sense, utopia allows us to reflect on the gap between reality and fiction, and on the possibility of moving towards this idealistic goal.
Artists, on the other hand, generally try to create liveable utopias. Driven by the Industrial Revolution and the rise of modernity, many architects such as Le Corbusier, Boullée and Ledoux have looked at urban planning and the concept of the ideal city, with their ideas often being influenced by Rousseau's social contract. In this ideal city, life and work would be separated, slums would not exist, and overpopulation would no longer be a problem. However, these were unachievable ideas and the social problems they wanted to eradicate remained over time. Artists have also evolved, and their relationship to utopia has also developed. They now question the utopian ideologies of the past in order to assess their relevance today, which Mark Titchner has done, for example. Artists are also trying to develop their own utopian communities, and are engaging more and more in social issues to try to create a better world through their artworks and performances.
Discover the selection of Artsper artworks on the theme of utopia, which will let you imagine an ideal world...