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Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 35 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,684
Der Frühling ist da -Spring is here- (Zahara con collar de flores)
Salustiano
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$51,155
The Raven and The Dove
Donovan Rose
Painting - 122 x 152 x 4 cm Painting - 48 x 59.8 x 1.6 inch
$3,865
Couleurs chaudes
Lorette Le Brestec
Sculpture - 50 x 40 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1 inch
$2,046
Matinée au bord de l'eau
Olena Siniuhina
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$398
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
$8,526
Breast Print 21
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 16.7 x 16.8 x 0.4 cm Painting - 6.6 x 6.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Breast Print 20
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 16.7 x 16.8 x 0.4 cm Painting - 6.6 x 6.6 x 0.2 inch
$250
Collection Liberty - HB1606
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$853
The Teles River Bed (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
The Teles River Bed (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$25,000
The Teles River Bed (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 cm Photography - 40 x 60 inch
$15,000
Jungle Madonna
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 60 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$853 $767
Résurgences abyssales N°126
Gilbert Sabatier
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,274
The boys in the crowd
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 196 x 191 x 3 cm Painting - 77.2 x 75.2 x 1.2 inch
$24,668
The Boy and the bird in the chest
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 186 x 146 x 3 cm Painting - 73.2 x 57.5 x 1.2 inch
$20,848
In between waves
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 121 x 86 x 3 cm Painting - 47.6 x 33.9 x 1.2 inch
$12,050
I Used to float
Deville-Chabrolle
Sculpture - 25 x 45 x 28 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 17.7 x 11 inch
$24,441
Le pur silence
Deville-Chabrolle
Sculpture - 46 x 38 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 15 x 11.8 inch
$24,441
Desperate Housewives (Marylin Monroe)
Kobalt
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$369
Liberté - série sculpture corps de femme
Chantal Nottrelet
Sculpture - 42 x 25 x 10 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 9.8 x 3.9 inch
$932
Horsewoman, Spring serie
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,137
French School - PS 242 Sunflowers from Van Gogh Diving
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 55 x 55 x 3.5 cm Painting - 21.7 x 21.7 x 1.4 inch
$1,819
Béton palavasien n°2
Manon Deck-Sablon
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$853
French School - PS 240 Van Gogh Swimsuit Girl Impressionnist
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
PS 238 Le temps des jonquilles
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 61 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,705
The book of prosperity
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 93 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$7,389
The book of filling
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 93 x 72 x 2 cm Painting - 36.6 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
$7,389
Collection Liberty - HB1787
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$568
The Boomer Collection - HB3077
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$853
Scythian Sea, Cycle of Being
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 110 x 2.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 43.3 x 1 inch
$2,058
Figure Coalescing with Nature
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 22 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 8.7 x 0.1 inch
$1,137
Cool and Reclined
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.7 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$1,012
Figure in Nature (Primaries)
Christian Frederiksen
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 15 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
$989
A Frog Atop Water (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
A Frog Atop Water (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 121.9 x 182.9 cm Photography - 48 x 72 inch
$25,000
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.