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Corps en ligne
Dani Olivier
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,013
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Alessandra Bisi
Fine Art Drawings - 127 x 94 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 37 x 0.4 inch
$2,852
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Paul Gauguin
Print - 26 x 42.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 10.2 x 16.7 x 0 inch
$10,625
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$7,270
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Study for reclining
Jonathan Chapline
Painting - 17.8 x 12.4 x 1.87 cm Painting - 7 x 4.9 x 0.7 inch
$16,500
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Laurent Castellani
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$11,744
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$5,369
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Fernando de la Rocque
Print - 40 x 40 cm Print - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$1,790
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Aldema Design & Art
Sculpture - 110 x 70 x 40 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 27.6 x 15.7 inch
$3,915
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Plat en Porcelaine de Limoges
Romane Louise
Design - 32 x 32 x 2 cm Design - 12.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 inch
$336 $302
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Nu 28
Thomas Witte
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$895
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Renata Andrade
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$1,118
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Fabrizio Savi
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$1,454
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Ocean
Witold Pyzik
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,013
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Allan Teger
Photography - 60 x 90 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 inch
$1,678
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A woman
Olga Prokop-Misniakiewicz
Sculpture - 35 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$2,125
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Michel Lablais
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 23.5 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 9.3 x 1.6 inch
$783
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Kathleen Ney
Fine Art Drawings - 43.2 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$490
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Heaven and Hell
Andres Serrano
Photography - 83.8 x 114.3 x 2.5 cm Photography - 33 x 45 x 1 inch
$120,000
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Gilles Rimbault
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$839
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Les enveloppes - image 5/13
Sarah Salazar
Photography - 140 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,678
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#40 - Free As A Veil
Eric Lespinasse
Photography - 72 x 128 x 2 cm Photography - 28.3 x 50.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,073
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Immersió 051
Oriol Texidor
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,398
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Petites Luxures
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 inch
$1,007
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NUDE Lovers 4
Simão Da Silva
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,063
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John De Andrea
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$150,000
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Colin Maillard
Francis Bellanger
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$1,566
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Ancient Dunes, Photograph, Archival ink jet
Aaron Knight
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$720
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VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,901
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Curaçao Woman
Bikkel Artist
Painting - 70 x 60 x 0.3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,790 $1,611
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Femme verte de dos
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Print - 35 x 24.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.6 x 0.1 inch
$615
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Nu I
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$995
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La Femme au centre du monde
Christophe Stephan Durand
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,790
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Franck Sadock
Sculpture - 67 x 51 x 6 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 20.1 x 2.4 inch
$2,572
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Autoportrait
Cécile Beaupère
Fine Art Drawings - 91.5 x 62.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 24.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,678
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Le bain
Olena Siniuhina
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 18 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 7.1 x 0.4 inch
$89
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Vertical Composition of Sex
Jorge Carruana
Painting - 135 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 53.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$5,369
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Carl Pascuzzi
Photography - 31 x 46 x 0.3 cm Photography - 12.2 x 18.1 x 0.1 inch
$783
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Le Nu au miroir (bordeaux)
Gérard Lecomte
Print - 66 x 51 x 0.2 cm Print - 26 x 20.1 x 0.1 inch
$224
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22C15
Etienne Gros
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,013
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The man in the Well
Alberto Savinio
Print - 37.4 x 26.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 14.7 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
$2,908
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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.