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Saharian Sensuality
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$213
Inner silence (big)
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 55 x 60 x 74 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 23.6 x 29.1 inch
$12,276
Tender is the night
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 35 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 13.8 inch
$7,736
Corps Raccords série 1 - 1/7
Sarah Salazar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$463
#13 From Cuerpo en Tensión Series
José Sierra
Photography - 101.6 x 67.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 26.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Chinese Interior #7
Robert van der Hilst
Photography - 42 x 49 cm Photography - 16.5 x 19.3 inch
$2,018
La dynamique des corps - Jours 02 - 04 - 05 - 08
La Robotte
Painting - 21 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 8.3 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$448
Connection - We Are Connected
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$549
Souvenir du Japon 2, Onsen
Marine Walon
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
Etirement Déténte série 45
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 73 x 26 x 30 cm Sculpture - 28.7 x 10.2 x 11.8 inch
$9,619
Les passants
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Sculpture - 70 x 24 x 24 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 9.4 x 9.4 inch
$897
Bedroom blonde doodle with photo
Tom Wesselmann
Print - 61.875 x 71.5 x 2 cm Print - 24.4 x 28.1 x 0.8 inch
$42,500
El fauno de la rafia / The faun of the Raffia Palm
Luis Prada
Painting - 60 x 90 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,794
Perle II
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 90 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
$1,626
L'uomo Che Guarda - V
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$998
L’uomo Che Guarda – X
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$998
The Essence of Life 010
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 90 x 60 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 inch
$897
Yellow Invitation
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 18 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.3 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$762
Nude of a Woman
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 17 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 6.7 x 0 inch
$762
Night & Day
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 19 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$762
Nude of Woman
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 9.6 x 0 inch
$762
Morning Lines
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$762
Beyond What You Desire
Anastasia Kurakina
Painting - 13 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 5.1 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$762
Woman in Orange
Anastasia Kurakina
Painting - 60 x 55 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,233
Farbiger Traum zart asiatisch
Wilfried Habrich
Painting - 83 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 32.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,601
No22 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,081
Light Slide
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,937
Bloom
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,937
Ballet Series IV
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$774
Ballet Series I
Miguel Angel Lozano Bonora
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$774
Giving and Receiving
Kohlene Hendrickson
Print - 78.5 x 66 x 0.2 cm Print - 30.9 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$1,121
Three Graces
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,937
Flame
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,937
Lemon Nude
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 7 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2.8 inch
$1,457
Dialogue
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$1,457
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.