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La Flamme
Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis
Sculpture - 55 x 35 x 25 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 13.8 x 9.8 inch
$8,540
Find The Nude 6
Gina Vor
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$393
The white towel
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$3,933
Marilyn. Jeweled Toga
Bert Stern
Photography - 45 x 31 x 1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 12.2 x 0.4 inch
$5,506
I am fleeting #13. From I am fleeting Series
Javier Rey
Photography - 73 x 110 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28.7 x 43.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,450
Serie Las Piadosas
Enriqueta Aguiló
Painting - 90 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$5,843
La gardien de la forêt, Kuntermann, Monumentale
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 241 x 105 x 93 cm Sculpture - 94.9 x 41.3 x 36.6 inch
$123,604
Marina II Playboy FotoErotica 2018
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$618
Marina Playboy FotoErotica 2018
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$843
Young woman
Gediminas Endriekus
Sculpture - 29.5 x 14.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11.6 x 5.7 x 3.1 inch
$6,742
Ellekach
Nicolas Dubreuille
Photography - 60 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,416
Les Acrobates VII
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 69.9 x 90.2 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 35.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
Hamami, Istanbul from the Mani series
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 69.9 x 97.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 38.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,500
De l'autre côté du miroir
Maude Ovize
Painting - 89 x 116 x 2 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,697
Seated Nude in Profile
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 73 x 53 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 20.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,180
Comment vivre intensément
Emilie Chauvel
Painting - 105 x 66 x 1.5 cm Painting - 41.3 x 26 x 0.6 inch
$2,247
My Chamber 2
Rebecca Yunjeong Lee
Painting - 33.5 x 45.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 13.2 x 17.9 x 1 inch
$1,100
Palette estivale
Guillaume Chevallard
Photography - 45 x 30 x 4 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$899
Un filo per il profilo
Morandi Giancarlo
Sculpture - 165 x 30 x 12 cm Sculpture - 65 x 11.8 x 4.7 inch
$2,809
She Turns to Face the Sun
Manny Woodard
Sculpture - 31 x 10 x 11 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 3.9 x 4.3 inch
$719
Euphoria
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 61 x 92 x 0.1 cm Photography - 24 x 36.2 x 0 inch
$1,657
281 )La Chinchorra, la Vénus de la seconde chance
Isis Bi-M
Sculpture - 30 x 26 x 11 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 10.2 x 4.3 inch
$146
280) La belle Vénus tatouée
Isis Bi-M
Sculpture - 40 x 26 x 11 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 10.2 x 4.3 inch
$146
Miss Aubade, Hitch me baby one more time
Yohan Storti
Painting - 80 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$2,247
Buste homme
Christian Della Giustina
Sculpture - 68 x 21 x 25 cm Sculpture - 26.8 x 8.3 x 9.8 inch
$11,124
Becoming Body III
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,910
Becoming Body II
Ewelina Skowronska
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,910
Dans un ciel ensoleillé, un nuage gris-blanc figurant une mère portant son enfant et un homme couché sur le dos
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 49 x 39 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.3 x 15.4 x 0 inch
$1,348
Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade) from the Nudes Suite
Salvador Dali
Print - 52.1 x 71.1 cm Print - 20.5 x 28 inch
$4,500
We Belong Only to Ourselves
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 40.6 x 52.1 x 20.3 cm Sculpture - 16 x 20.5 x 8 inch
$3,500
Who Washes the Feet of Mary Magdalene?
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 41.9 x 12.7 x 14 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 5 x 5.5 inch
$1,700
The Night We Hung the Moon
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 39.4 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm Sculpture - 15.5 x 5 x 5 inch
$1,500
A celle qui est trop gaie
Dan Solojoff
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 28 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 11 inch
$393
Sans titre - 19
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 30 x 46 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,461
Homme nu sur la plage II
Bruno Fournier
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,124
Vénus, Adonis et Cupidon, N°3
Catherine Clare
Print - 25 x 18 x 0.1 cm Print - 9.8 x 7.1 x 0 inch
$360
No92 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,657
No83 Spirit Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 67 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 26.4 x 0 inch
$1,657
Jeune nuit
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 91 x 91 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.8 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$1,657
Light Slide
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,657
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.