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Kicki Edgren
Painting - 115.6 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.5 x 30 x 1 inch
$3,000
Caryatid II
Allison Harrell
Painting - 105.5 x 71.6 x 6.5 cm Painting - 41.5 x 28.2 x 2.6 inch
$8,576
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
$897
Shijunku99 - Beauty - #002 - Cerisier du Japon
Davis Y
Photography - 20 x 20 cm Photography - 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$168
Méli
Dominique Payen
Fine Art Drawings - 45 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$392
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
$280
Their landscape, Part 2
Vlada Hauser
Painting - 120 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 47.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$5,830
Ondine
Nella Buscot
Sculpture - 118 x 46 x 25 cm Sculpture - 46.5 x 18.1 x 9.8 inch
Price upon request
I was lost but I'm found
Dasha Pogodina
Painting - 100 x 90 x 2.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 35.4 x 1 inch
$1,009
Overwhelmed - Format S
Deborah Zuanazzi
Photography - 40 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$673
Jeune fille aux oiseaux
Véronique Clanet
Painting - 41 x 33 x 2 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 0.8 inch
$1,419
Legs in the Tall Grass (M)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 76.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 30 x 30 inch
$5,000
Legs in the Tall Grass (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 45.7 x 45.7 cm Photography - 18 x 18 inch
$2,500
Legs in the limo (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 160 x 213.4 cm Photography - 63 x 84 inch
$50,000
Legs in the limo (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 142.2 x 182.9 cm Photography - 56 x 72 inch
$25,000
Legs in the limo (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 152.4 cm Photography - 45 x 60 inch
$15,000
Legs in the Tall Grass (XXL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 177.8 x 177.8 cm Photography - 70 x 70 inch
$50,000
Legs in the Tall Grass (XL)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 152.4 x 152.4 cm Photography - 60 x 60 inch
$20,000
Legs in the Tall Grass (L)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 114.3 x 114.3 cm Photography - 45 x 45 inch
$10,000
Red Caprice Part 1
Dani André Skogfelt
Fine Art Drawings - 59 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.2 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,906
CyClOpS - Format L
Louis Blanc
Photography - 70 x 70 x 1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,886
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0.1 inch
$673
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
$2,242
Poussières d'étoiles Autre
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$874
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 26
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 24
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 23
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 21
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 20
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 19
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 17
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 16
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 15
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 14
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 13
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 12
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 11
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 10
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$336
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - Miniature 3
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 11 x 6 x 10 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 2.4 x 3.9 inch
$392
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer 2
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 37 x 25 x 31 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.8 x 12.2 inch
$4,148
L'oiseau qui rêve de Mer - 1
Pauline Couble
Sculpture - 39 x 25 x 32 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 9.8 x 12.6 inch
$4,148
AhamBrahmasmi (I am Divine). Drawings From the covid diaries series
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
La danseuse de cabaret
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 30 x 15 x 20 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 5.9 x 7.9 inch
$3,094
La demoiselle du vent ROUGE
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 52 x 20 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 7.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,094
O Pouso Em Mim
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 150 x 120 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 0.8 inch
$15,135
Tailshot Polo Game
Adélaïde Leferme
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$617
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
$1,850
Jardim das Fragilidades
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 190 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 74.8 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$20,572
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.