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Mujer De Espalda
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$898
Desnudo de mujer
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
A Castrated Existence
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 124 x 70 cm Painting - 48.8 x 27.6 inch
$1,175 $1,058
Fish (a tribute to Magritte)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$309
Treno
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$337
Puppet
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$337
Portales cuánticos
Josep Garcia Marsal
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,795
Mère et enfant
Carl Albert Angst
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$747
Fuen en El Louvre, Paris (Identity Assertions Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$561
Les Carmencitas - série corps de femmes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$707
Nudity woman lyingt
Kouta Sasai
Painting - 130.1 x 161.8 x 3.1 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.7 x 1.2 inch
$7,292
Banc de sable
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,346
Solor and Nikiya under Fireworks
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$550 $275
Constellation de la famille
Henrik Jacob
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$898
Duchándome, June 4th and Pity
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Duchándome, May 22nd and Duchándome, May 27th (Diptych)
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$800
Duchándome, June 5th
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 13.75 x 0.1 inch
$600
Bodegon, Mauricio from Frutas series
Celso Castro
Photography - 66 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Faiber from Identidad series
Celso Castro
Photography - 71.1 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Confrontations of Ideals, from The Monumental Nudes series
Celso Castro
Photography - 69.9 x 99.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 39.25 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Untitled, from Buscando Papa series
Celso Castro
Photography - 66 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Rolando from Buscando Papa series
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.1 x 69.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Carlos from Buscando Mama series
Celso Castro
Photography - 71.1 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Untitled
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.1 x 69.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
The Boys- Penis
Celso Castro
Painting - 120.7 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.5 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Réflexion à l’oiseau
Guillaume Cavalier
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$950
Guitare du Québec
Guillaume Cavalier
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$950
Singularity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,346
Singularity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$898
Singularity - Un Anonyme Nu Dans Le Salon
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,346
Bling, Bling! Souriez, vous êtes flashés - Le monde du paraître - série Collages
Karine Barbier (dite Ka Bé)
Print - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,683
Newport - H0438 - Collection Artificial Nature
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$1,795
Rockstar fallen angels
Aranka's Art
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$617
El negro (Escultura Negra)
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
F0102 – La renversante
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,019
HB1424 – Collection purity
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$2,019
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.