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Love Bronze
Aleksy Kowalski
Sculpture - 74 x 37 x 17 cm Sculpture - 29.1 x 14.6 x 6.7 inch
$3,355 $2,684
Le Saint Graal
Jean-Marie Gitard (Mr Strange)
Print - 49 x 70 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.3 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$334
Fragment Escultòric Nº 8
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 100 x 70 x 8 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 27.6 x 3.1 inch
$1,118
Ferrari Tire Change (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
My Fair Lady
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 70 x 100 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 39.4 x 0.6 inch
$2,237
Symbiose n.1 - Format XS
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
$168
La tête
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 72 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 28.3 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,650
Prêtresse - Format S
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$503
Artemis & Orion - Size L
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 150 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$8,388
XIII. From The Red Series
Megha Joshi
Painting - 29.7 x 21.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Back Silhouette II (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$30,000
Back Silhouette II (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
Back Silhouette II (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
Art for your Soul 3
Anastasiia Dushak
Painting - 60 x 60 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.6 inch
$1,051
XII. From The Red Series
Megha Joshi
Painting - 29.7 x 21.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Ferrari Tire Change (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
Ferrari Tire Change (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
$25,000
Ferrari Tire Change (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
$15,000
Ferrari Tire Change (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 cm Photography - 30 x 40 inch
$10,000
Lamborghini Mechanic (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 213.4 x 170.2 cm Photography - 84 x 67 inch
$50,000
Lamborghini Mechanic (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 182.9 x 144.8 cm Photography - 72 x 57 inch
$25,000
Lamborghini Mechanic (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 121.9 cm Photography - 60 x 48 inch
$15,000
Lamborghini Mechanic (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 101.6 x 81.3 cm Photography - 40 x 32 inch
$10,000
Lamborghini Legs (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
Lamborghini Legs (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
$25,000
Lamborghini Legs (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
$15,000
La danse des nymphes - trio 50 cm 4B (1)
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 56 x 35 x 20 cm Sculpture - 22 x 13.8 x 7.9 inch
$2,986
La fille de Dioné et de Zeus
Alexei Lantsev
Painting - 110 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,026
Femme Nue Grand Bronze
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 36.5 x 49.5 x 29 cm Sculpture - 14.4 x 19.5 x 11.4 inch
$1,667
Nu Groupé Grand Bronze
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 31.5 x 33 x 17 cm Sculpture - 12.4 x 13 x 6.7 inch
$1,555
Béton palavasien n°1 - Format L
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 120 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$3,244
Le Lac n.3 - Format L
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 120 x 80 x 3 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$3,244
La Danseuse de Cabaret
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 52 x 20 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 7.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,087
I Used to float
Deville-Chabrolle
Sculpture - 25 x 45 x 28 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 17.7 x 11 inch
$24,047
Le pur silence
Deville-Chabrolle
Sculpture - 46 x 38 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15 x 11.8 inch
$24,047
The Perception of Love
Gago Chtchyan
Painting - 48 x 99 x 2 cm Painting - 18.9 x 39 x 0.8 inch
$2,684
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 41 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,342
Blind in the freedom of not having you I
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 35 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,592
Collection Liberty - HB1606
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$839
Jungle Madonna
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$839
Béton palavasien n°2 - Format S
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$503
Béton palavasien n°2 - Format XS
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$168
Le Lac n.3 - Format S
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 60 x 40 x 3 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$503
Le Lac n.3 - Format XS
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 30 x 20 x 3 cm Photography - 11.8 x 7.9 x 1.2 inch
$168
Symbiose n.1 - Format S
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$503
Duet
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$582
Value Added
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 45 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$213
Fragment Escultòric Nº 14
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 110 x 45 x 10 cm Sculpture - 43.3 x 17.7 x 3.9 inch
$671
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.