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Caryatid II
Allison Harrell
Painting - 105.5 x 71.6 x 6.5 cm Painting - 41.5 x 28.2 x 2.6 inch
$8,491
Petra, le diptyque
Edith Simonnet
Painting - 240 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 94.5 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$10,767
Woman
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 60 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$888
Nude with cat
Aldous Eveleigh
Fine Art Drawings - 59.5 x 42 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$277
Their landscape, Part 2
Vlada Hauser
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,772
Ondine
Nella Buscot
Sculpture - 118 x 46 x 25 cm Sculpture - 46.5 x 18.1 x 9.8 inch
Price upon request
Le dos de ma sœur
Camille Brès
Painting - 40 x 32 x 3 cm Painting - 15.7 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
Price upon request
In the Sunlight
Lilit Soghomonyan
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,775
Woman in blue with a basket
Nataliia Krykun
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,831
Pointe d'antan
Olivier Ansel (la Guêpe)
Sculpture - 58 x 22 x 15 cm Sculpture - 22.8 x 8.7 x 5.9 inch
$977
Mano y seda
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 65 x 50 x 3.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 1.4 inch
$2,220
Jardim das Fragilidades
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 190 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 74.8 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$20,368
The Lady and the Lion (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$5,000
The Lady and the Lion (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 45.7 x 45.7 cm Photography - 18 x 18 inch
$2,500
Intimidade (Triptych)
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 100 x 180 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 70.9 x 0.8 inch
$22,865
Deus é Um Sentimento
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$16,650
Back Silhouette (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
Back Silhouette (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
The Lady and the Lion (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
The Lady and the Lion (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
The Lady and the Lion (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
Legs Up Silhouette (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
Legs Up Silhouette (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
Legs Up Silhouette (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
La face cachée
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,110
Flight of Hope, The Happiness Series: Exploring Inner Joy series
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$943
Flirt, set of 9 separate paintings
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$777
I'm sowing seeds
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,132
Un Uomo e Due Cani
Luigi Iona
Painting - 74.5 x 54.5 x 0.3 cm Painting - 29.3 x 21.5 x 0.1 inch
$100
Deconstruccion I
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 51 x 52.5 x 20 cm Sculpture - 20.1 x 20.7 x 7.9 inch
$4,773
Memories of sweet summer
Natalya Mougenot
Painting - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$610
Quand il faut y aller, il faut y aller
Sange
Painting - 73 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,088
Futurist Body
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$832
Impossible behaviour - 4
Galya Popova
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,776
Encensé 1
Catherine Carrée
Fine Art Drawings - 43 x 60 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.9 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,110
Harmonie végétal-minéral
Claudette Allosio
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$1,887
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.