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Duchándome May 28th
Celso Castro
Fine Art Drawings - 49.5 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.5 x 13.75 x 0.1 inch
$500
Geogram 5
Hoel Gwern
Fine Art Drawings - 19.6 x 17.8 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.7 x 7 x 0.1 inch
$202
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 7
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$123
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 10
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$123
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 9
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$123
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 11
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$123
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 13
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0 inch
$123
If I had a pig, I would name it Nevo 12
Nevelin Ivanov
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$123
La ronde
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$379
Extension
Claude André Thibaud
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 15 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.9 x 0 inch
$379
Pomme II
Jean-Paul Veison Marcelli
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$898
What I think about when I cuddle my dachshund dogs
K Oldal
Painting - 22 x 29 x 0.2 cm Painting - 8.7 x 11.4 x 0.1 inch
$449
Unnatural causes tricolore
Jeff Robb
Photography - 98 x 98 x 2 cm Photography - 38.6 x 38.6 x 0.8 inch
$15,707
Estudio del cerebro humano según el sistema de frenología, c. 1902
Montserrat Tobella Bosch
Painting - 46 x 38 x 1.5 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.6 inch
$3,267
Tête de mule Drouillard
Jean-Robert Drouillard
Sculpture - 38.1 x 12.7 x 9.5 cm Sculpture - 15 x 5 x 3.75 inch
$4,712
Forêt nocturne
Brigitte Thonhauser-Merk
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$280
Palais du vieux roi - Se lever dans l’obscurité
Toshihiko Ikeda
Print - 108.5 x 79.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 42.7 x 31.3 x 0.1 inch
$3,927
Unir jusqu'au ciel
Emilie Teillaud
Painting - 195 x 97 x 4 cm Painting - 76.8 x 38.2 x 1.6 inch
$6,619
The Pianist #4
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
$729
The Pianist #3
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 59 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0 inch
$729
Série "Love is in the air" - 3
Line Taarnberg
Photography - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$449
Trial to flying-I
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$785
Ninja & Skate [Die Antwoord] (after Roger Ballen)
Roger Ballen
Design - 80.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 cm Design - 31.7 x 8.1 x 0.5 inch
$280
Galloping Horses
Giuseppe Cominetti
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 48.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 19.1 x 0 inch
$8,414
Enfant revenant des champs. Ethiopie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Huile et Rouille
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Relax pour les zèbres de Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Ourson brun. Quelle chaleur. Canada
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Droit dans mes bottes. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Œil d'éléphant. Inde du nord
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Une bonne sieste. Lémuriens
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Perroquet Ara. Pantanal. Brésil
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Paon à la chasse. Inde
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Fin de journée sur les ballons
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Aube et envol de Montgolfières
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Envol de Montgolfières
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,571
Jeune fille revenant du champs. Ethiopie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,458
Regard de buffle. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$898
L'heure de la sieste. Ourson Brun. Canada.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$898
Guépard Protecteur. Parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$898
Mère et fils. Singe. Inde du nord.
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 90 x 70 x 2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$898
Troupeau de Zèbres dans le parc de Tarangire. Tanzanie
Dominique Leroy
Photography - 70 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$898
Slave boy breaking chains
López del Espino
Sculpture - 100 x 25 x 40 cm Sculpture - 39.4 x 9.8 x 15.7 inch
$7,853
Love Searching for Love
Akande John
Painting - 50.8 x 35.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 20 x 14 x 1 inch
$400
With Yves Coat I Archival pigment on canvas intervened by the artist
Efren Isaza
Painting - 172.7 x 127 x 5.1 cm Painting - 68 x 50 x 2 inch
$15,000
"Standing Ballet", Archival pigment print mounted on aluminum intervened
Efren Isaza
Painting - 165.1 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 65 x 48 x 1 inch
$13,000
Fashion is image
Akif Hakan
Photography - 150 x 100 x 3 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$8,975
Dangerous games 5
Akif Hakan
Photography - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,975
Sexy, sleazy, seedy films
Akif Hakan
Photography - 100 x 150 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$8,975
Orion, Naked cowboy
Earl of Bushwick
Painting - 61 x 45 x 2 cm Painting - 24 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$6,569
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.