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Le Réveil
Carlos Antonio Sablon Perez
Painting - 116 x 89 x 4 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1.6 inch
$11,656
Miss Vador et sa cape
Loran Romain
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,263
The Red Jacket (d'après Soutine)
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,998
Tropic # 18
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$215 $172
Chimères sur fond rouge
Ludovic Isidore
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,037
ConCoscienza, Selfportrait
Chiara Mazzocchi
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$560
L'envol
Alessandro Montalbano
Sculpture - 61.5 x 51.5 x 26.5 cm Sculpture - 24.2 x 20.3 x 10.4 inch
$17,684
La piscine
Camille Brasselet
Photography - 50 x 75 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.5 x 0 inch
$1,528
Venus (small)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 48.78 x 42 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.2 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$792
End of the Market III (small)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 59.4 x 40.75 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$792
End of the Market II (small)
Jesus Torio
Photography - 59.4 x 40.75 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23.4 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$792
Discovery take me home
Alberto La Tassa
Painting - 154 x 154 x 3 cm Painting - 60.6 x 60.6 x 1.2 inch
$23,764
Flash for fantasy Profumo
Alberto La Tassa
Painting - 210 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 82.7 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$27,159
A Bout de Souffle
Violaine Boisivon
Sculpture - 27 x 15 x 15 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.9 x 5.9 inch
$1,470
Amazone 180
Daniel Perreu
Sculpture - 184.5 x 52.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 72.6 x 20.7 x 3.1 inch
$12,448
Nuit Éveillée
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$962
Please tear me into pieces
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 76 x 74 x 0.1 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.1 x 0 inch
$1,301
The skipping girl (Kindergarten)
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$6,224
Don’t Look Back (d'après Souvenir de Biskra de Matisse)
Michael Bastow
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$5,998
L'étranger
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$962
Bride in vetican
Tos Kostermans
Painting - 140 x 115 x 4 cm Painting - 55.1 x 45.3 x 1.6 inch
$8,487
Tall Woman On Short Canvas
Andrea Vandoni
Painting - 60 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$3,508
La fuite du cheval Bayard
Edward Vandaele
Sculpture - 130 x 130 x 130 cm Sculpture - 51.2 x 51.2 x 51.2 inch
$66,766
Hercule & Cotton Candy Light Design
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 90 x 55 x 25 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 21.7 x 9.8 inch
$2,328
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio
Celso Castro
Painting - 152.4 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 60 x 38 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Edwin Carrillo, 24 de junio
Celso Castro
Painting - 101.6 x 73.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Jose el velezolano, Sabado 25 de junio
Celso Castro
Painting - 101.6 x 73.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 29 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
The Power of Good
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,546
2023-1115 / Visages et corps expressionnistes - série rouge et noir
Marion Casters
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$170
Genesis, One of three works in the Harmony series
Oleksandra Horscroft
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$566
Whispers of Time: The Gathering
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$2,433
Regard dérrière le visible II
Anthony Mirial
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$3,395
Extraction n°2
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$3,282
Poncho viernes 27 de mayo
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
The Old man from the last expo
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 109.2 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 43 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Lola pamplemousse
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 162 x 92 x 1 cm Painting - 63.8 x 36.2 x 0.4 inch
$13,580
Les valises diplomatiques
Zwy Milshtein
Painting - 195 x 97 x 1 cm Painting - 76.8 x 38.2 x 0.4 inch
$16,974
Carlos. Martes 24 de Mayo
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Untitled, Portrait figurative
Celso Castro
Painting - 101.6 x 149.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 59 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Recanato y compañero, viernes 3 de junio
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 100.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 39.5 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Poncho Jueves 26 de Mayo
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Desnudo con medias, sábado 4 de junio
Celso Castro
Painting - 149.9 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 59 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Granollers, fulla baixa
Eduardo Arranz-Bravo
Print - 73.5 x 55 x 0.1 cm Print - 28.9 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$622
Lorenzo Triptych
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Allow me to destroy you
Akif Hakan
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$622
Blue Mood 2
Yannick Fournié
Photography - 140 x 107 x 1.5 cm Photography - 55.1 x 42.1 x 0.6 inch
$4,074
Mirrorscope 25
Maribelle Saad
Fine Art Drawings - 20.4 x 13 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 5.1 x 0.2 inch
$240
Action with Iodine
Hollie Miller
Photography - 58.4 x 41.5 x 0.2 cm Photography - 23 x 16.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,811
Aperture Rapture
Hollie Miller
Photography - 27.2 x 47.5 x 0.2 cm Photography - 10.7 x 18.7 x 0.1 inch
$962
Icaro
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 19 x 0.25 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.5 x 0.1 inch
$283
A look through the worlds
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 100 x 110 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,942
The Barefoot Dance
Tsanko Tsankoff
Painting - 110 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,130
Sisyphe II
Patrick Strajnic
Photography - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,460
N°22018 Hommes-Taureaux XXX
Capton
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1 inch
$4,413
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.