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Giving and Receiving
Kohlene Hendrickson
Print - 78.5 x 66 x 0.2 cm Print - 30.9 x 26 x 0.1 inch
$1,131
Nu III
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,006
Nu IV
Mirco Marcacci
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,006
Looking for the past
Stefan Hadzi Nikolov
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,640
My name is Red
Iwona Sacharczuk Ivet
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,696
An eye to magnetism, Painting, Oil on canvas
Adam Parsons
Painting - 61 x 61 x 3.8 cm Painting - 24 x 24 x 1.5 inch
$3,800
6:47 - The finest hour, Painting, Oil on canvas
Adam Parsons
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 3.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch
$3,500
Manos con uñas rojas
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 92 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Mujer De Espalda
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$905
Desnudo de mujer
Ernest Carneado Ferreri
Painting - 50 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$1,470
Fish (a tribute to Magritte)
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$311
In my web
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$339
Treno
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$339
Puppet
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$339
Field of love
Rossella Mercedes
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$373
Shoot again (5064)
Yves Cham
Photography - 60 x 45 x 0.01 cm Photography - 23.6 x 17.7 x 0 inch
$1,357
Tropic # 10
Pascal Marlin
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$215 $172
Portales cuánticos
Josep Garcia Marsal
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$1,809
Back and wig
Charlotte Yonga
Photography - 80 x 64 x 0.2 cm Photography - 31.5 x 25.2 x 0.1 inch
$2,488
Mère et enfant
Carl Albert Angst
Fine Art Drawings - 33 x 25 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch
$744
Fuen en El Louvre, Paris (Identity Assertions Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$565
Les Carmencitas - série corps de femmes
Alain Arnouil
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$712
Banc de sable
Lesya Rozova
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$1,357
Petite chose #23
Pascal Marlin
Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0.1 inch
$339 $271
Constellation de la famille
Henrik Jacob
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 20 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$905
Duchándome, June 4th and Pity
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Duchándome, May 22nd and Duchándome, May 27th (Diptych)
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$800
Duchándome, June 5th
Celso Castro
Painting - 49.5 x 34.9 x 0.3 cm Painting - 19.5 x 13.75 x 0.1 inch
$600
Bodegon, Mauricio from Frutas series
Celso Castro
Photography - 66 x 101.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 40 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Faiber from Identidad series
Celso Castro
Photography - 71.1 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Confrontations of Ideals, from The Monumental Nudes series
Celso Castro
Photography - 69.9 x 99.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27.5 x 39.25 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Untitled, from Buscando Papa series
Celso Castro
Photography - 66 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 26 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Rolando from Buscando Papa series
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.1 x 69.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Carlos from Buscando Mama series
Celso Castro
Photography - 71.1 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 28 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
Untitled
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.1 x 69.1 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 27.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
The Boys- Penis
Celso Castro
Painting - 120.7 x 99.1 x 0.3 cm Painting - 47.5 x 39 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Untitled- Penis
Celso Castro
Painting - 121.9 x 100.3 x 0.3 cm Painting - 48 x 39.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,000
Prelude to Love
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,262
Dancing of Love
Rakhmet Redzhepov (Ramzi)
Painting - 60 x 40 x 0.3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,262
Bling, Bling! Souriez, vous êtes flashés - Le monde du paraître - série Collages
Karine Barbier (dite Ka Bé)
Print - 90 x 60 x 0.2 cm Print - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
$1,696
Rockstar fallen angels
Aranka's Art
Painting - 60 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$622
El negro (Escultura Negra)
Celso Castro
Photography - 68.6 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 27 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$1,000
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.