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Dance and peace
Anand Manchiraju
Painting - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Painting - 30 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$7,500
Fragment Escultòric Nº 5
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 50 x 70 x 4 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$562
Fragment Escultòric Nº 2
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 127 x 47 x 5 cm Sculpture - 50 x 18.5 x 2 inch
$787
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 7
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$337
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 5
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$337
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 3
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$337
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 2
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$337
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 1
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$337
Sunbathing In Antibes - Limited Edition Estate Print
Slim Aarons
Photography - 76.2 x 101.6 x 0 cm Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.001 inch
$2,641
Dissolution I
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 122 x 48 x 2 cm Painting - 48 x 18.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,528
The Orange Thieves
Halyna Abramova
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,124
The Boy and the Tiger
Mahujtoei (M.CH.R.)
Painting - 90 x 90 x 4 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.6 inch
$1,461
Poussières d'étoiles 03
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 116 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 45.7 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,236
The Boomer Collection - HB3110
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,348
The Boomer Collection - HB2984
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,348
They didn't teach me how to be loved
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 126 x 106 x 3 cm Painting - 49.6 x 41.7 x 1.2 inch
$11,911
Extra Virgin Oil
Mathilde Oscar
Photography - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,348
Blind in the freedom of not having you II
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 35 x 35 x 3 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 1.2 inch
$5,618
L'homme est en mère
Hélène Legrand
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$4,045
Nu bleu alangui aux poires
Stephanie Larène
Painting - 73 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$730
Poussières d'étoiles 02
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 73 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$787
Fragment Escultòric Nº 12
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 70 x 50 x 5 cm Sculpture - 27.6 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$337
Fragment Escultòric Nº 4
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 90 x 50 x 5 cm Sculpture - 35.4 x 19.7 x 2 inch
$449
Sans titre
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 41 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 16.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,348
Poussières d'étoiles 04
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 81 x 65 x 2 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 0.8 inch
$843
Poussières d'étoiles 01
Théo Le Franc
Painting - 60 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$820
Matinée au bord de l'eau
Olena Siniuhina
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 1 inch
$393
Glisser dans l'onde d'un rêve
Alain Vintenon
Painting - 82.5 x 93 x 4 cm Painting - 32.5 x 36.6 x 1.6 inch
$5,993
The victory of Icarus (1) forbidden production (1)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 200 x 140 x 0.1 cm Painting - 78.7 x 55.1 x 0 inch
$8,090
The Boomer Collection - HB2994
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$843
Letter to Olive
Obiora Anamaleze
Painting - 129.5 x 105.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 51 x 41.5 x 1 inch
$1,850
Lo que amas, lo pierdes en cuanto te vuelves de espaldas
Carmen González Castro
Painting - 146 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 57.5 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$3,596
The man (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (6)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,697
Pour the blood of the Gods
Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury
Painting - 159 x 89.75 x 0.1 cm Painting - 62.6 x 35.3 x 0 inch
$2,236
Glorious Danger (Lightbox)
David Drebin
Photography - 152.4 x 101.6 cm Photography - 60 x 40 inch
$36,000
A set of 3 Polaroids from the Do it Yourself Series
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 10.1 x 7.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 4 x 3 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Las tres columnas
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 53.3 x 15 x 65 cm Sculpture - 21 x 5.9 x 25.6 inch
$5,057
Desperate Housewives (Marylin Monroe)
Kobalt
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$365
Purity - Composition 27-1
Idan Wizen
Photography - 90 x 180 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 70.9 x 0.4 inch
$5,225
The Boomer Collection - HB2996
Idan Wizen
Photography - 80 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$2,809
Entre la multitud, estás solo tú
Salustiano
Print - 152 x 112 x 1 cm Print - 59.8 x 44.1 x 0.4 inch
$5,843
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.