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La chevauchée
Gouzy
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
$671
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Fashion Sea Horse
Gouzy
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.4 inch
$615
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Lectrice sur 4 grimoires Être
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 55 x 34 x 23 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 13.4 x 9.1 inch
$10,961
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Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 98 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 38.6 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
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Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 101 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
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Entrelacs Flammes série 101 Fusion corporelle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 101 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 39.8 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$5,973
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Prelude to Love
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,237
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Dancing of Love
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,237
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Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,796
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Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,796
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Autoportrait au loup
Pierre Molinier
Photography - 11 x 6.3 x 0.1 cm Photography - 4.3 x 2.5 x 0 inch
$2,013
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The Boomer Collection - HB2969
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,796
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I am the wild strawberry meadow III
Kalin Mihov
Photography - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$582
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F0253 – La fascinante
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,796
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H0396 - The farmer
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$3,076
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H0390 - The flop
Idan Wizen
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,796
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Anne-Marie Vesco
Painting - 25.5 x 20.05 x 0.4 cm Painting - 10 x 7.9 x 0.2 inch
$1,118
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Magic Moments
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 60 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
$1,230
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Chantal Molinié Jonquet
Sculpture - 36 x 16 x 26 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 6.3 x 10.2 inch
$3,803
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Anatomías descriptivas IV
José Fernández Morán
Painting - 48 x 67 cm Painting - 18.9 x 26.4 inch
$1,258
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Big Odalisque
Florence Sartori
Sculpture - 110 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$3,579
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La tentation de Saint Antoine
Lionel Morateur
Photography - 60 x 160 x 0.5 cm Photography - 23.6 x 63 x 0.2 inch
$2,908
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Grand baigneur aux bras ballants
FsT
Painting - 130 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,454
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Rare Picasso
Freda People Art
Painting - 105 x 105 x 0.3 cm Painting - 41.3 x 41.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,678
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Posing in the Garden
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 100 x 125 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 49.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,572
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The little self made man
Víctor Hugo Yáñez Piña
Sculpture - 27 x 13 x 11 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 5.1 x 4.3 inch
$5,369
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Jeune femme et Cupidon
Henri Fehr
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 18 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.1 inch
$844
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TV II. From the series Ser Cosa
Rodrigo Etem
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
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Chemise
Maciej Woltman
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$1,454
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Ouverture
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$2,930
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Rusalka, Free floating in Ukrainian waters 28-02
Corné Akkers
Painting - 59.9 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$6,674
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A midsummer night's dream 05-04-22
Corné Akkers
Painting - 70.1 x 100.1 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,111
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Ode to Tamara de Lempicka 31-03-22
Corné Akkers
Painting - 60.2 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 23.7 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$5,884
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Parcours Desnos, Louise Lame, étude 2
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 31 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 12.2 inch
$22,369
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Emotion of skin
Badriot
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$895
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Femme et enfant posant
Emile-François Chambon
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 29.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.6 x 0.1 inch
$762
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Anvers
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 38 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.8 x 15 inch
$22,369
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Ils sont nus
Isabelle De Luca
Fine Art Drawings - 66 x 86 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 33.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,118
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Hope, Melancholy serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$783
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Egee Debout h cm 50 (bronze)
Antoniucci Volti
Sculpture - 50 x 20 x 16 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 7.9 x 6.3 inch
$12,862
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Maternitè allongee (petite) (bronze)
Antoniucci Volti
Sculpture - 28 x 42 x 23 cm Sculpture - 11 x 16.5 x 9.1 inch
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Déchirure Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,117
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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.