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Le fruit défendu (Gauguin)
Gérard Ricard
Painting - 200 x 250 x 2 cm Painting - 78.7 x 98.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 4,840
Spectres
Claude André Thibaud
Painting - 120 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 43.3 x 1 inch
CHF 3,475
Les fous rient
Claude André Thibaud
Painting - 130 x 120 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 47.2 x 1 inch
CHF 4,032
2023-1140 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
CHF 118
2023-1138 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir (1)
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
CHF 118
A symphony of tenderness and serenity
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Painting - 100 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
CHF 3,913
Standard bearer 5
Christos Antonaropoulos
Painting - 120 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 12,975
Tears for life
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 160 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
CHF 13,902
Piece of wood
Dimitar Voynov - Junior
Painting - 100 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 9,268
The dreams of fisherman's wife
Danuta Turkiewicz
Painting - 100 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
CHF 2,574
Sensuality - Sea & rose - Italian painting
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
CHF 324
Sans filtre
Audrey Faivre
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 inch
CHF 474
Kate running Single Bum with Hat
Sam Haskins
Photography - 40.6 x 30.4 cm Photography - 15.98 x 11.96 inch
CHF 10,908
Eris covered with gold
Guido Argentini
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
CHF 9,268
L'Inconnue
Claude André Thibaud
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 3,089
Série : Rituels en Haïti - Les jeunes, Haïti
Cristina García Rodero
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
CHF 15,961
L'arbre intérieur
Marie-Josée Roy
Sculpture - 190.5 x 40.6 x 40.6 cm Sculpture - 75 x 16 x 16 inch
CHF 7,019
Langue de danseuse
Arnaud Baumann
Photography - 24 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 9.4 x 6.3 x 0 inch
CHF 309
Play of light
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.01 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
CHF 448
Double Je
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
CHF 8,547
3 Figures assises I
Pierre Yermia
Sculpture - 42 x 49 x 16 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 19.3 x 6.3 inch
CHF 9,783
Happy petite gourmandise
Déesse
Sculpture - 39 x 19 x 23 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 7.5 x 9.1 inch
CHF 453
Big star epoustouflante
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
CHF 514
Big star au coeur de ma vie
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
CHF 514
Big star comme je t'aime
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
CHF 514
Loren Gray, Piece of work, v2
Johnathan Ball
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 2 inch
CHF 18,970
Big star mon manège à moi
Déesse
Sculpture - 49 x 36 x 20 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 14.2 x 7.9 inch
CHF 514
Pieles 02
Ivanna Alejandra Sanchez Moretti
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
CHF 412
Cubism Emotions
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 8,300
Every man is a tree
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 8,300
Goddesses games #1
Rani Bruchstein
Photography - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 8,300
Les Belles au bois dormant
Aima Saint Hunon
Sculpture - 152 x 30 x 22 cm Sculpture - 59.8 x 11.8 x 8.7 inch
CHF 19,566
Nu abstrait N°23 - Monstera palace
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 136 x 91.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 53.5 x 36 x 0 inch
CHF 8,753
Moveo Lucidum
Ana D. & Noora K.
Photography - 120 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
CHF 11,121
L’esclave mourant
Yazid Oulab
Painting - 207 x 154 x 3 cm Painting - 81.5 x 60.6 x 1.2 inch
CHF 15,447
Untitled ( red woman)
Massimo Attardi
Photography - 100 x 130 x 2 cm Photography - 39.4 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 4,119
Dos authentique
Laurent Castellani
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
CHF 9,783
Jeu de lumière
Laurent Castellani
Photography - 100 x 70 x 0.01 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
CHF 7,723
Femme dorée sur drap bleus 2021 2054
Aldema Design & Art
Sculpture - 55 x 32 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 12.6 x 7.9 inch
CHF 3,089
One second and seventy six milliseconds
Krikor Avessian
Sculpture - 81.7 x 41.5 x 36 cm Sculpture - 32.2 x 16.3 x 14.2 inch
CHF 5,350 CHF 4,815
Adam et Eve chassés de l'Eden
Lionel le Jeune
Sculpture - 29 x 24 x 12 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 9.4 x 4.7 inch
CHF 978
Apparition Pauline
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 100 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 inch
CHF 2,060
Apparition chambre mauve
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 70 x 100 cm Photography - 27.6 x 39.4 inch
CHF 2,060
Déshabillez-moi, 1
Jean-Robert Franco
Photography - 100 x 70 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
CHF 1,648
Tigresses en chasse
J.Léo
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
CHF 7,208
The most beautiful links of the world
J.Léo
Photography - 60 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
CHF 7,208
Applause for the Inevitable
Bevan Ramsay
Sculpture - 175 x 78 x 78 cm Sculpture - 68.9 x 30.7 x 30.7 inch
CHF 5,664
GLORY : SPECTACLE OF VICTORY
Ryoko Watanabe
Painting - 140 x 120 x 5 cm Painting - 55.1 x 47.2 x 2 inch
CHF 5,973
Chanson d'amour VI
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
CHF 8,238
Éclat d'émotion
Pedro Viana Parente
Painting - 97 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
CHF 3,604
Pain of the ice queen
Jean Peterson
Print - 32.5 x 25 x 0.2 cm Print - 12.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
CHF 206
The enigma - H0371
Idan Wizen
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
CHF 309
Phantom
Dmitry Savchenko
Photography - 100 x 150 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 0 inch
CHF 2,471
Red House And Body
Danylo Movchan
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
CHF 412
Blue Shadow
Danylo Movchan
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 35 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch
CHF 412
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.