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![Sculpture, Lena, Françoise Abraham](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1106421_1_grid.jpg)
![Fine Art Drawings, Le travail a créé l’homme lui-même, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/312340_1_grid.jpg)
Le travail a créé l’homme lui-même
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.5 x 4.3 inch
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Credendo Vides 017
Jean-Michel Rousvoal
Photography - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Nude of Woman
Emile Gilioli
Fine Art Drawings - 41 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.1 x 12.2 x 0 inch
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Marisa Papen 3
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
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Erotic Drawing n. 2
Marcel Vertès
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 13.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.3 x 0 inch
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Aureola
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 85 x 16 x 16 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 6.3 x 6.3 inch
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L'innocence de Sisyphe
Amandyne Steropês
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
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Blue
Gabrielle Rul
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
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She calls is Dance Therapy
Gabrielle Rul
Painting - 60 x 20 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
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Torse Bleu
Martine Lingelser-Schmidt
Sculpture - 24 x 13 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 5.1 x 3.1 inch
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Marisa Papen 4
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
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Femme & Fleur I
Elizaveta Deviataikina
Painting - 81 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
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Gone with the wind
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.01 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
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De ses filles, de son vin, un français peut être vain
Jean Cocteau
Print - 38 x 28 x 0.2 cm Print - 15 x 11 x 0.1 inch
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Étude de la sculpture "MKE"
Aude Herlédan
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
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Présence
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
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Euphoria
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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Marisa Papen 2
Samuel Cueto
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.4 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.2 inch
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Le dos
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
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Les colonnes n°1
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
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Femme Seule (Alone)
Françoise Leblanc
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
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Arcadia five, Photograph, Archival ink jet
Aaron Knight
Photography - 66 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 38 x 0.1 inch
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Twofold, Photograph, Archival ink jet
Aaron Knight
Photography - 66 x 96.5 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 38 x 0.1 inch
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Ne plus savoir où aller
Xavier Jallais
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
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No10 SPIRIT Series
Yevgeniy Repiashenko
Photography - 90 x 72 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 28.3 x 0 inch
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L'uomo Che Guarda - VI
Alexander Levich
Painting - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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Nude of Woman
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 10.4 x 0 inch
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Riding
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 17.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 6.9 x 0 inch
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Nudes
Anastasia Kurakina
Fine Art Drawings - 19 x 29.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.5 x 11.6 x 0 inch
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The Power of Seduction
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 60 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
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Etude pour une allégorie de la justice
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 101 x 64 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.8 x 25.2 inch
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Abstrait nu N°12 : Lifting piece of starsky
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 45 x 30.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 17.7 x 12 x 0 inch
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Immersió 204
Oriol Texidor
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
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Voyance
Evelyne Postic
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
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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.