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Le surfer solitaire
Alain Longeaud
Photography - 120 x 96 x 0.5 cm Photography - 47.2 x 37.8 x 0.2 inch
$3,496
Love is (not) a fight
Bob Tonic
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,886
Thierry Dusautoir
Clément Poitrenaud
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$4,440
Le jour de gloire
Bertrand Desprez
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,886
Le demi-fond, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$721
Course hippique, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$721
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,664
Silence and soul
Richard Kelley
Photography - 75 x 50 x 4 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,665
The last dance
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
$1,276
Delantal. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$13,153
Santa Coloma. Fernando Robleño, Las Ventas.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
José Tomás. La México, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Tafallera. Arturo Saldívar, Aguascalientes, México.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Verónica a pies juntos. El Juli, Manizales, Colombia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Pase de pecho a rodilla flexionada. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Tentaderos. Finca de AT, Olivenza.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
La Suerte Suprema. JT, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Por derecha. José Tomas, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Morante de la Puebla.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,713
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 29 x 29 x 21 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 11.4 x 8.3 inch
$2,775
Olympic Balloons – Sarajevo 1984
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Print - 85 x 62 x 0.1 cm Print - 33.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$13,320
Golf T
Max Steven Grossman
Photography - 91.4 x 188 x 1.3 cm Photography - 36 x 74 x 0.5 inch
$10,000
Boxe The Fight of the Century
Bruce Meritte
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$555
REGATES, ON TRACE AU VENT
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 70 x 60 x 2.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 23.6 x 1 inch
$1,332
REGATES, ON TRACE SOUS LE VENT
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1 inch
$1,099
The Hammer Thrower II
Helen Warner
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$2,509
Faith in victory, Painting, Oil on canvas
Andrey Chebotaru
Painting - 140 x 160 x 2.5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 63 x 1 inch
$4,650
En movimiento (de la serie clase de gimnasia)
Delia Solari
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$10,086
Perfect Strangers
Stanislav Belovski
Painting - 110 x 160 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 63 x 0.8 inch
$5,439
In A Yankee State of Mind
Charles Fazzino
Print - 71.1 x 119.4 x 5.1 cm Print - 28 x 47 x 2 inch
$2,550
Planète Mars - Collection Marseille
Rodrigo
Photography - 35.6 x 26.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 14 x 10.5 x 0 inch
$1,387
Rouge contraste
Götz Göppert
Photography - 80 x 120 x 3 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,038
Fife Regatta 2201
Götz Göppert
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$749
Sailing / sailing boats
Olya Jonas
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.7 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.7 inch
$832
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...