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Better Than Life (after Harland Miller) | Fotografiska Berlin 2024 : Miles Aldridge : Virgin Mary. Supermarkets. Popcorn.
Miles Aldridge
Photography - 75 x 103 cm Photography - 29.5 x 40.6 inch
$8,408
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Clochette Dark
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$1,121
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Tyler Shields
Photography - 45.7 x 45.7 cm Photography - 18 x 18 inch
$2,500
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$1,682
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$50,450 $45,405
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Painting - 73 x 146 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 57.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,812
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FsT
Painting - 130 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,457
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Malwina Jagora
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$4,479
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Malwina Jagora
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$4,142
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Hassan Laamirat
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$516
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Réjane LeChat
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$2,915
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La tourbière
Clémence Wach
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0.2 inch
$1,570
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Nu à l'étang
Clémence Wach
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 54 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 21.3 x 0.2 inch
$1,345
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Dangerous beauty
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 100 x 140 x 0.3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 55.1 x 0.1 inch
$6,525
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Under the power of Lily voodo
Zianko Vasili
Painting - 140 x 100 x 0.3 cm Painting - 55.1 x 39.4 x 0.1 inch
$6,525
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Heir To The Throne (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
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Fraternity 1
Abdulateef Salaudeen
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,250
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Untitled IV
Enrique Grau
Fine Art Drawings - 43.2 x 35.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 14 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
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Untitled III
Enrique Grau
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Untitled II
Enrique Grau
Fine Art Drawings - 30.5 x 22.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 9 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Partir Revenir 2
Carole Fournet
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$897
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Partir Revenir 1
Carole Fournet
Fine Art Drawings - 83 x 54 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 32.7 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,345
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The opium smoking white elephant
Print - 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$448
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The Raven and The Dove
Donovan Rose
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,812
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The Perception of Love
Gago Chtchyan
Painting - 48 x 99 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$2,691
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Centimetri di Cielo
Elisa Gambalonga
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,794
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L'ora del Rosso
Elisa Gambalonga
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,794
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Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,031
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I Get Everything I Want II
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$953
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I Get Everything I Want III
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 61 x 92 x 4 cm Painting - 24 x 36.2 x 1.6 inch
$1,144
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Legacy of Expectation
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 92 x 61 x 4 cm Painting - 36.2 x 24 x 1.6 inch
$1,144
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Deserving of a Story
Jennifer DeGroot
Painting - 102 x 76 x 4 cm Painting - 40.2 x 29.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,603
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Un Homme dans sa chambre
Jean Rustin
Painting - 146 x 114.5 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 45.1 x 0.8 inch
$25,785
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San Sebastiano MMXIII
M_ Michael Mc Macfarney
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$1,121
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La marche légère
Guillaume Roche
Sculpture - 153 x 50 x 27 cm Sculpture - 60.2 x 19.7 x 10.6 inch
$8,969
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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.