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Traditional Wrestling
Azin Najafi
Painting - 50 x 70 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$2,237
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
$1,454
Fase I: Empoderamiento
Manuel Mediavilla
Sculpture - 76 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 29.9 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$7,158
Saut en Hauteur, JO 2024
Alkaplan
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,418
Entrainement sur la plage, Deauville
Adélaïde Leferme
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.7 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.7 x 0.6 inch
$168 $151
Untitled
Joan Albert
Fine Art Drawings - 44 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.3 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$671
Golfer Abstrakt
Nicole Leidenfrost
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,803
Montagne Yogi 120-21
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 21 x 18 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch
$1,063
La plongeuse (1)
Véronique Baleste
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$2,237
Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
$1,788
Still Cassius Clay V
Gerry Cranham
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,107
Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in Kinshasa Zaire
Dumisani Karamanski
Painting - 150 x 180 x 3 cm Painting - 59.1 x 70.9 x 1.2 inch
$2,796
Ahead of the wind
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 85 x 75 x 1 cm Painting - 33.5 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,796 $2,517
Polytechnique
Patrick Gripe
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,063
Little world map Rome Peking, Olympic Games Beijing
Piero Pizzi Cannella
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$951
Le Plongeon – bleu vert
Valérie Betoulaud
Print - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$548
Moi je dis qu'un bon footballeur, c'est un footballeur qui a un cerveau et des mains (de génie) à la place des pieds !...
Jack Hironimus
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 0.8 inch
$1,566
The Basketball game
Paul Almasy
Photography - 69.5 x 49.6 x 1 cm Photography - 27.4 x 19.5 x 0.4 inch
$979
Tchernobyl
Guillaume Herbaut
Photography - 60 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$3,299
Le chant des machines
Gwendoline Hausermann
Painting - 99 x 102 x 3 cm Painting - 39 x 40.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,461
Tennis, Olympic Games Beijing
Fabio Mauri
Print - 70 x 94.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 37.2 x 0 inch
$872
Disco Méduse Surfboard
Boom Art
Sculpture - 185 x 48 x 5.7 cm Sculpture - 72.8 x 18.9 x 2.2 inch
$2,226
Steve Mc Queen le Mans
Vincent Gachaga
Sculpture - 85 x 80 x 12 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 31.5 x 4.7 inch
$2,796 $2,377
Longboard III - scène de vie en bord de mer
Hélène Dupérier
Painting - 120 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,007
Green and Bunker
Pierre-Emmanuel Rastoin
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,069
Baseball, Olympic Games Beijing
Zhang Wei Guang
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.2 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$559
Athleticism, Original Lithograph by Alfredo Sosabravo
Alfredo Sosabravo
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$895
Shaolin Monastery. Henan Province, China
Steve McCurry
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.1 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0 inch
$20,132
Lonzo Ball Pelicans
Johnathan Ball
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 inch
$1,800
Game Lover, Olympic Games Beijing
Matteo Basilè
Photography - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$940
Caveman II
Christophe Paucelier
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,107
Luke McAlister
Clément Poitrenaud
Photography - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$1,230
Ivailo & Denis
Samuel Lugassy
Photography - 80 x 65 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,205
Twickenham Streaker
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 30 x 42.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 16.7 x 0 inch
$2,181
Olympic Connections, Olympic Games Beijing
Pier Augusto Breccia
Print - 94.5 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 37.2 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$619
Lagos la dingue
Thomas Hoeffgen
Photography - 40 x 103 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 40.6 x 0 inch
$2,237
Lamborghini Huracan Surfboard
Belart Collective
Design - 186 x 55 x 7 cm Design - 73.2 x 21.7 x 2.8 inch
$5,022
Le Plongeon
Philippe De Poulpiquet
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,342
Epicentre, Olympic Games Beijing
Alexander de Cadenet
Print - 70 x 94.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 37.2 x 0 inch
$671
Ali In Training
Russell McPhedran
Photography - 76 x 101 x 0.001 cm Photography - 29.9 x 39.8 x 0 inch
$1,063
Serie 'Tenis 01' -La Bolsa Mágica-
Sonja H Lukenic
Photography - 72 x 50 x 0.01 cm Photography - 28.3 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,454
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.
Discover with Artsper our Olympic podium of artworks!
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...