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Olympic Balloons – Sarajevo 1984
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Print - 85 x 62 x 0.1 cm Print - 33.5 x 24.4 x 0 inch
$13,571
Coming Closer, or Nikyia and Solor in La Bayadere
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$554
Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
Abstrat Expresion -1
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.3 cm Painting - 40 x 60 x 0.1 inch
$14,000
Tripoli
Philippe De Poulpiquet
Photography - 30 x 45 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,244
Last shot
Akinboye Akinola Peter
Painting - 119.9 x 99.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.3 x 1 inch
$2,800
24 HEURES DU MANS ON TRACE
Sophie Petetin
Painting - 116 x 81 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 31.9 x 1 inch
$1,798
Purple Mystery in the Heart Beat
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$554
Barbie collection #9
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$215
Le grand saut 5
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
$565
Polo Mercedes f1 team
Ian Philip
Sculpture - 65 x 45 x 25 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 17.7 x 9.8 inch
$2,940
Ski to have the best excuse to apres-ski!
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$215
Paseíllo al mediodía, Nimes, Francia.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,878
Baron Pump: Portrait of Admiral of the Fleet, 1st Baron Anson, photobombed by Lil Pump
Helen Gorill
Painting - 59 x 49 x 3 cm Painting - 23.2 x 19.3 x 1.2 inch
$2,508
Si estiguessis aqui
Toni Carrasco
Painting - 47.5 x 47.5 x 2 cm Painting - 18.7 x 18.7 x 0.8 inch
$679
The Middle Finger
Antoine Buttafoghi
Photography - 80 x 120 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 inch
$1,583
Powers-court Estate. Playing Golf.
Simon Kozhin
Painting - 61 x 91 x 0.1 cm Painting - 24 x 35.8 x 0 inch
$18,094
Sunny Side of Sparkling Dance Company
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$554
Conor Mcgregor
Peter Donkersloot
Painting - 120 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$9,613
Mollige pup (Chubby puppy)
Babette Degraeve
Sculpture - 40 x 22 x 44 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 8.7 x 17.3 inch
$3,902
Porsche 911 Mate
Antoine Dufilho
Sculpture - 16 x 33 x 76 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 13 x 29.9 inch
$20,356
Machines sensationnelles
Sandra Paris
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$202
Cours de Kung-Fu, Wakaliwood, Ouganda
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$735
Un été à Pékin
Elisa Haberer
Photography - 100 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$3,845
Cambio de Mano. AT.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 110 x 110 x 2 cm Photography - 43.3 x 43.3 x 0.8 inch
$13,401
Renaissance Rejjie: Young Irish Wolfhound and the Earl of Leicester (1550) Photobombed by Rejjie Snow
Helen Gorill
Painting - 92 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$3,309
Thierry Dusautoir
Clément Poitrenaud
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$4,524
Le jour de gloire
Bertrand Desprez
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,940
Le demi-fond, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$735
Course hippique, N’Djamena, Tchad
Frédéric Noy
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$735
Ballon de rugby
Les Frères Guinet
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,714
Sport
At school, we sometimes tend to oppose athletes and artists. However, sport and art often mix and sublimate each other. The meeting of these two disciplines is frequent in the history of art and more particularly in contemporary art.
Already during Antiquity, the Greeks devoted an absolute cult to the perfect athletic body. On pots and vases, artists painted the exploits of the competitors of the first Olympic Games in the 8th century BC.
Whatever the medium (photography, painting, sculpture, collage...), the musculature and the psychological state of the sportsmen, the places of training or the competitions are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for the artists. Between the representation of reality and the hijacking of a symbol, sport is a recurring theme for young artists.
Discover with Artsper our Olympic podium of artworks!
Photography is probably the first medium that comes to mind when representing sports. It is the only medium that allows us to capture images of the athletes' prowess at full speed. Thus, the shots are taken on the spot to offer a better rendering of the movement and to manage to capture the palpable tension on the field, the team cohesion, the crucial moment...
A leader of the new wave, Gerry Cranham had a career in athletics before becoming a coach. Passionate about photography, he takes pictures of the young people he coaches in order to correct their position and analyze their stride. Very quickly, he decided to convert his hobby into a real job. He became a sports photographer and quickly built a reputation as one of the leading sports photographers in England and internationally. His pictures of rugby, soccer, tennis, wrestling and swimming were published all over the world in the most prestigious magazines such as Sport Illustrated or The Observer.
But sport also inspired painters and it is found in all artistic movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1853, Gustave Courbet painted "The Wrestlers", a large oil on canvas depicting two men practicing French wrestling in the old hippodrome of the Champs Élysées. To the right, in the background, one can see the audience, cheering the athletes. Among the Impressionists, Claude Monet developed his technique with "Les Régates d'Argenteuil", an 1872 painting in which the boats are reflected in the water in a magnificent way. In modern art, Nicolas de Staël's "Les Footballeurs" represents a soccer field in the middle of a match, but in an abstract way. The players are discernible thanks to the flat colors that make up the team jerseys.
You too can bring your passions to life through contemporary sports paintings, sculptures and photographs. Discover the work of well-known and emerging artists such as Victor Spahn, Isabelle Picarel, Michel Birot, Chiara Dazi and many others...