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Contemplations by the river
Tetiana Pchelnykova
Painting - 90 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
Réflexion
Nathalie Camoin-Chanet
Sculpture - 37 x 14 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 5.5 x 3.9 inch
$4,750
Play of light
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.01 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,357
Nu à la couverture
Aimée De Courtozé
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,357
I still don't know how to love
Joann Côté
Painting - 106.7 x 134.6 x 5.1 cm Painting - 42 x 53 x 2 inch
$3,550
Mirrored desires: A moonlit encounter
Tiny de Bruin
Painting - 70 x 160 x 4 cm Painting - 27.6 x 63 x 1.6 inch
$4,241
Mauricio Bodegon diptych. From los vendedores series
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Andrés diptych. From identidad series
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Fabian diptych. From the pre-Columbian fantasy series
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Untitled (Identity promises series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 40 x 80 x 0.2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,923
Summertime en Valle Oscuru (Identity Promises Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$961 $769
#11. From La Piedra Sustituta II Series
José Sierra
Photography - 101.6 x 67.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 40 x 26.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
De la série : La beauté des femmes - Siesta
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 15 x 23 cm Photography - 5.9 x 9.1 inch
$1,357
De la série : La beauté des femmes - Dido
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 18 x 24 cm Photography - 7.1 x 9.4 inch
$1,357
Man running, Woman running
Milburn-Foster
Painting - 92 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 36.2 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$7,690
Brodlim x Julien Raynaud
Julien Raynaud
Design - 105 x 155 x 3 cm Design - 41.3 x 61 x 1.2 inch
$2,488
Le voyage au bout du monde
Linde Ergo
Sculpture - 48 x 71 x 76 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 28 x 29.9 inch
$14,702
Eole II
Marie-Madeleine Vitrolles
Sculpture - 72 x 12 x 12 cm Sculpture - 28.3 x 4.7 x 4.7 inch
$1,018
Songe
Merry Kerpitchian (Merry K)
Sculpture - 11 x 60 x 18 cm Sculpture - 4.3 x 23.6 x 7.1 inch
$2,205
Salamba bleu Outre-mer
Merry Kerpitchian (Merry K)
Sculpture - 45 x 32 x 17 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 12.6 x 6.7 inch
$2,092
Le triangle parfait
Merry Kerpitchian (Merry K)
Sculpture - 25 x 22 x 12 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 8.7 x 4.7 inch
$1,685
Pensando & recordando a Luis Caballero
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 13.75 x 0.1 inch
$600
Maha-Kali
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$2,827
De la série : La beauté des femmes - On the warpath
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 20 x 15 cm Photography - 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$1,357
De la série : La beauté des femmes - upwards
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 15 x 20 cm Photography - 5.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,357
De la série : La beauté des femmes - coquetry
Matthias Leupold
Photography - 15 x 20 cm Photography - 5.9 x 7.9 inch
$1,357
Grondement de corps
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$141
Torso existencial 3/8
Alberto Ascaso
Sculpture - 45 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$3,280
Power
Shota Imerlishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 43 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.8 x 16.9 x 0 inch
$2,262
Divarication
Shota Imerlishvili
Fine Art Drawings - 63 x 43 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 24.8 x 16.9 x 0 inch
$1,696
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #11
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #10
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #8
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #7
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #4
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
La lune n'a rien à craindre des loups #5
VAM / Jean-Pierre Gilson
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,923
Venus
Franciszek Starowieyski
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$905
Emballons-nous !
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,527
A la derecha !! - A la izquierda !!
Soy Roy
Painting - 100 x 80 x 8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 3.1 inch
$3,019
Embody
Nino Eliashvili
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$2,149
Woman 1
Irakli (Akuna) Kavtaradze
Painting - 60 x 42 x 0.1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$1,018
1952 Paris Muse Assise
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 45 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 17.7 x 0.2 inch
$2,205
1952 Paris Muse de dos
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 44.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 17.5 inch
$1,527
1952 PARIS MUSE La voluptueuse Voluptuousness
Kam Zin Choon
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,205
The Alignment
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 55.9 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 22 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
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.