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Woman at night
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 80 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$897
Nude study no.2
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 80 x 60 x 0.2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$897
Liberté
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$426
Nude Art 1-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Indian heritage-2
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Divas de jazz
Kristina Malashchenko
Painting - 30 x 30 x 3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.2 inch
$1,121
The memory of a carefree summer
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 60 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,682
Intimate ambience
Vasyl Khodakivskyi
Painting - 75 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 29.5 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,242
Cruelty bought you orchids
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 55 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$841
Contemplating the Inarticulate
Dima Filatov
Painting - 73 x 121 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 47.6 x 0.2 inch
$605
Abandon
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 76 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$1,065
Les enfants flippants II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 55 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 21.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$841
Brou de Ténèbres I
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$729
Aluminum figurine of a woman
Ohad Ben-Ayala
Sculpture - 29 x 7 x 6 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 2.8 x 2.4 inch
$2,018
Aile de poulet beige
Bernard Duca
Sculpture - 60 x 45 x 15 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 17.7 x 5.9 inch
$10,763
Elle II
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 75 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$426
Déesse de Paris N1
Valentin Savtcheko
Painting - 54 x 72.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 21.3 x 28.5 x 1 inch
$2,018
Portrait-I(The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant,New York,2003)
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$5,606
Abstract nude 7-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Abstract nude 3-2
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Abstract Nude 6-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Abstract Nude 4
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Abstract nude 1-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Abstract nude 2-22
Alexandre Moore Rockefeller
Painting - 30 x 30 x 0.6 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$561
Attitude féminin
Hildegarde Handsaeme
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 55 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.4 inch
$538
Women`s altar
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Painting - 127 x 108 x 0.7 cm Painting - 50 x 42.5 x 0.3 inch
$4,933
Belisama Golden Dawn
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 53 x 42 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.9 x 16.5 x 8.3 inch
$23,543
Eclat d'innocence
Lisbeth Buonanno
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1.8 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.7 inch
$841
Model in the studio
Dima Filatov
Painting - 73 x 121 x 0.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 47.6 x 0.2 inch
$650
Cascade noire
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$729
Trois nus de dos
Lionel le Jeune
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$56
Do you smoke after ? #1
Charly Desoubry
Photography - 100 x 75 x 1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 29.5 x 0.4 inch
$1,065
Le Martyr
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$841
Entrelacs & Miroirs I
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$841
Double portrait-II
Stanislav Bojankov
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$4,484 $4,036
ELLE, Bain de soleil
Didier Cormillot
Photography - 60 x 80 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
$1,087
Là 2 (version résine)
Véronique Vigneron
Sculpture - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$1,345
Là (version résine)
Véronique Vigneron
Sculpture - 28 x 13 x 10 cm Sculpture - 11 x 5.1 x 3.9 inch
$1,345
Amenti
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,137
L’en vie
Carole Framezelle - Acmiya
Painting - 46 x 38 x 2 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$1,127
Female nude: Free
Oswin Gesselli
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$8,408
Cold ceramic composition
Stavri Kalinov
Painting - 120 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 47.2 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$10,090
Contemplation (Bronze No. 1 of 10)
Joyce Fournier
Sculpture - 25.4 x 11.4 x 8.9 cm Sculpture - 10 x 4.5 x 3.5 inch
$3,060 $2,295
Mystique Torso - (Bronze No. 2 of 10)
Joyce Fournier
Sculpture - 23.5 x 11.4 x 11.4 cm Sculpture - 9.25 x 4.5 x 4.5 inch
$3,060
Endormie
Thalia Dalecky
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$359
Morphée
Thalia Dalecky
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$359
Pavarti Virvoltant
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 32 x 24 x 10 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 9.4 x 3.9 inch
$3,363
Succombe ! #2
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$841
Succombe ! #1
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$841
Entrelacs & Miroirs II
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 42 x 55 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$841
Les demoiselles dansent
Patmoli
Painting - 200 x 210 x 0.3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 82.7 x 0.1 inch
$6,278
N° 263 La confusions des traits du temps.
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$561
N° 441 Camouflage
R. Cavalié
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 48 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
$617
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.