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Ho il collo stupito
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 73.2 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 28.8 x 0.1 inch
$984
A Corps Perdus Performance
Feng Kaixuan
Photography - 30 x 45 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0.4 inch
$805
Newport - H0438 - Collection Artificial Nature
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$1,790
F0480 - The antidepressant
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,013
My Chamber 2
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 33.5 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13.2 x 17.9 x 1 inch
$1,100
Marilyn Boob Smile (1962)
Bert Stern
Photography - 48 x 33 x 1 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 x 0.4 inch
$5,480
Muscas, la reine des mouches
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,237
Marine Delterme
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 40 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,342
Palette estivale
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 45 x 30 x 4 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$895
Comment vivre intensément
Emilie Chauvel
Painting - 105 x 66 x 1.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26 x 0.6 inch
$2,237
N° 611 Il y avait de la buée.
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$246
Marina II Playboy FotoErotica 2018
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$615
Marina Playboy FotoErotica 2018
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$839
Marilyn 1962 (New baby in Gold)
Bert Stern
Photography - 33 x 48 x 1 cm Photography - 13 x 18.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,480
Euphoria
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 61 x 92 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36.2 x 0 inch
$1,650
Dans un ciel ensoleillé, un nuage gris-blanc figurant une mère portant son enfant et un homme couché sur le dos
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 39 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$1,342
Buste homme
Christian Della Giustina
Sculpture - 68 x 21 x 25 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 8.3 x 9.8 inch
$11,073
Becoming Body III
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,901
Becoming Body II
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,901
Marilyn red classic full roses Glitters
Bert Stern
Photography - 43 x 30 cm Photography - 16.9 x 11.8 inch
$5,480
Marilyn. Jeweled Toga
Bert Stern
Photography - 45 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,480
Marilyn Red Classic Charcoal Roses
Bert Stern
Photography - 48 x 33 cm Photography - 18.9 x 13 inch
$5,480
Marilyn Black silver wink roses
Bert Stern
Photography - 43 x 31 cm Photography - 16.9 x 12.2 inch
$5,480
We Belong Only to Ourselves
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 40.6 x 52.1 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 16 x 20.5 x 8 inch
$3,500
Of Course, You Weren’t Made to be Subservient; They Will Demonize You Anyway (Lilith)
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 49.5 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 19.5 x 10 x 10 inch
$3,500
History Lesson: Power is Always Taken
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 91.4 x 55.9 x 25.4 cm Sculpture - 36 x 22 x 10 inch
$4,500
Who Washes the Feet of Mary Magdalene?
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 41.9 x 12.7 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 5 x 5.5 inch
$1,700
The Fruits of Our Labor
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 36.8 x 12.7 x 11.4 cm Sculpture - 14.5 x 5 x 4.5 inch
$1,450
The Night We Hung the Moon
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 39.4 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm Sculpture - 15.5 x 5 x 5 inch
$1,500
Emballons-nous !
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,510
A celle qui est trop gaie
Dan Solojoff
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 inch
$391
Alors les filles, on m'aime
Christian Esctal
Painting - 92 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
L'amie
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
No92 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,650
No83 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 67 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
Guardian of the Enchanted Grove
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 90 x 85 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
Jeune nuit
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,650
Danse des lasers
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,063
Façon Marilyn
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,063
Light Slide
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,650
Allure
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,650
Angelique 3
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
Nude woman naive modern art - Warrior
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,510
Eruptio
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
WetWay
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
No03 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
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.