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.
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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...
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Masaï football, Parc national d'Amboseli, Kenya
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$833
Kung Fu session, Quartier de Wakaliga, Kampala, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$833
Le départ arrêté, N'Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 60 x 3 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$833
L’effort mécanique Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 inch
$714
Force et Concentration
Joël Moens
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$7,619
Mountains - steps to heaven
Klimenko Olena
Painting - 65 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,131
Torse Épigastrique (Opus 377)
Miguel Berrocal
Sculpture - 15 x 7 x 5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 2.8 x 2 inch
$2,143
On Defense - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Horse Rider, Sport
Wasiu Adelakun
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 1 inch
$1,150
Bondi: Swimming and Surfing in Harmony
Alexandra Beshko
Painting - 100 x 140 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,500
Scène de corrida
Yves Brayer
Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 32 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.1 x 12.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,548
Baron Pump: Portrait of Admiral of the Fleet, 1st Baron Anson, photobombed by Lil Pump
Helen Gorill
Painting - 59 x 49 x 3 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,676
Olympic Balloons – Sarajevo 1984
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Print - 85 x 62 x 0.1 cm Print - 33.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$14,286
Lithographie originale de Folon
Jean-Michel Folon
Print - 79 x 87 x 0.3 cm Print - 31.1 x 34.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,786
Granny punch bleu nuit
Sophie Inard
Sculpture - 30 x 22 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.7 x 3.9 inch
$2,381
I want it painted red
Sophie Inard
Sculpture - 80 x 21 x 9 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 8.3 x 3.5 inch
$1,786
To the moon and back
Sophie Inard
Sculpture - 58 x 9 x 6 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 3.5 x 2.4 inch
$1,786
Golf without a hole
Konovalov Igor
Painting - 75 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,024
Opéra de Beijing - La Vierge gagne en force
ShuJie Wang
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,905
Horse riding on the beach
Trayko Popov
Painting - 101 x 72 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.8 x 28.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,429
East, Olympic Games Beijing
Omar Galliani
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,488
Le grand saut 5
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$595
The Seventeenth - the Burlington Golf and Country Club
Alan Kingsland
Print - 48.3 x 64.8 x 1.3 cm Print - 19 x 25.5 x 0.5 inch
$950
Michel Desjoyeaux
Christophe Paucelier
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$917
Ligne d'arrivée
Pauline Baste Morand
Sculpture - 40 x 85 x 45 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 33.5 x 17.7 inch
$11,905
Untitled
Joan Albert
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$714
Poids Plume
Eléonore de Moffarts
Sculpture - 54 x 27 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 10.6 x 3.9 inch
$5,953
Last shot
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 1 inch
$2,800
Llega a la meta, sola... / Gets to the finish line, alone...
Joaquín Xaudaró
Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.3 x 4.3 inch
$1,548
Jungle Book
Patrick Villas
Fine Art Drawings - 145 x 127 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 57.1 x 50 x 0.4 inch
$8,572
Jeux d’échecs
Jérémy Le Mouël (Mooven’s)
Painting - 50 x 65 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,905
Sprint Tour de France
ShuJie Wang
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
Tour de France - preparation du sprint
ShuJie Wang
Painting - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,905
Polo - Horse painting
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 80 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,714
Lutte Sénégalaise
Babacar Dieye
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,631
