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![Fine Art Drawings, Untitled 25, Reem Yassouf](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/612513_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, I never knew if she was a real red hair, Fenx](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2142218_1_grid.jpg)
I never knew if she was a real red hair
Fenx
Sculpture - 102 x 48 x 28 cm Sculpture - 40.2 x 18.9 x 11 inch
$6,599
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Save us From the New Age
Owen Connell
Print - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
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Mathilde
Guy Delaroque
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$783
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Erosi Art - Bananas - Tribute to Andy Wharol
Erosi Art
Photography - 78 x 60 x 0.8 cm Photography - 30.7 x 23.6 x 0.3 inch
$727
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Stranded
Miel Maloberti
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$2,461
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I've made peace...with my body
Blair Treuer
Painting - 100 x 84 x 8 cm Painting - 39.4 x 33.1 x 3.1 inch
$13,433
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Haskins Posters Front Cover
Sam Haskins
Photography - 61.2 x 52.7 cm Photography - 24.09 x 20.76 inch
$7,100
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Sylvana Lorenz by Sylvana Lorenz Rime pour Prince Pierre
Sylvana Lorenz
Photography - 20 x 30 x 0.5 cm Photography - 7.9 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$1,096
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Floating of Thoughts
Binbin Liang
Sculpture - 79 x 48 x 55 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 18.9 x 21.7 inch
$15,099 $14,344
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Love
Gino Bonichi
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 26.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 10.4 x 0.1 inch
$23,488
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Dos patchwork
Gaulmier Jean-Luc
Sculpture - 92 x 55 x 20 cm Sculpture - 36.2 x 21.7 x 7.9 inch
$3,020
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Autoportrait de la série "Beyond me" n°583
Yousha Bashir
Sculpture - 195 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 76.8 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$3,915
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Reclined figure
Georges Pierre
Fine Art Drawings - 25 x 19 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.8 x 7.5 x 0 inch
$224
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Sitting Woman
Jacques Le Breton
Fine Art Drawings - 28.7 x 15.3 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.3 x 6 x 0 inch
$336
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Matisse como pretexto sobre blanco
Lorenzo González
Print - 73.5 x 101 cm Print - 28.9 x 39.8 inch
$615
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Two figures by the Sea
Martha Erlebacher
Painting - 162.6 x 132.1 x 3.8 cm Painting - 64 x 52 x 1.5 inch
$7,500
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Femme nue allongée
Georgine Dupont
Painting - 60 x 92 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 36.2 x 0.8 inch
$2,157
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Jeune femme pensive
Jean Daniel Guerry
Sculpture - 27 x 17.5 x 14 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 6.9 x 5.5 inch
$2,391
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Portrait sur plan de rivière
Valérie Evrard
Photography - 22 x 16 x 0.1 cm Photography - 8.7 x 6.3 x 0 inch
$447
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Steady Equilibrium ll
Wahyu Srikaryadi
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$4,474
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Elena Mar, odalisca en mio patio
Alberto García-Alix
Photography - 40 x 50 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$16,777
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Sanguine ref 1
Jean Laniau
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$268
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Transparence des ailes du papilon
KLA
Painting - 120 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,020
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Internal Nude
Tibor Gertler
Fine Art Drawings - 48 x 31 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.9 x 12.2 x 0 inch
$336
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Figure Collection : Dark version
Leni Smoragdova
Photography - 74.9 x 110 x 1 cm Photography - 29.5 x 43.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,405
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Aria di Giovan-nana
Linda De Clercq
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$2,349
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Two
Anna Lageda
Fine Art Drawings - 47 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.5 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$447
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Birth
Evrim Özeskici
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$503
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L'ivresse du conquérant
Anne Procoudine-Gorsky
Sculpture - 200.2 x 200 x 200 cm Sculpture - 78.8 x 78.7 x 78.7 inch
$13,422
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TooLess 4692, 3D Lightbox
Koray Erkaya
Sculpture - 132.1 x 119.4 x 10.2 cm Sculpture - 52 x 47 x 4 inch
$9,900
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Nude of Woman
Marcel Spranck
Fine Art Drawings - 17 x 11.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.7 x 4.5 x 0 inch
$179
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Nude Woman
André Meaux Saint-Marc
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 32.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 12.8 x 0 inch
$336
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Nude of Woman
Gaspard Maillol
Fine Art Drawings - 27.5 x 24.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.8 x 9.6 x 0 inch
$447
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La descente de l'esprit ou essai clinique d'un transhumanisme à visage humain
Bernard Fièvre
Painting - 100 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,796
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Sans titre
Alexandre Saint-Loup
Photography - 150 x 100 x 0.1 cm Photography - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$2,718
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Les guerrières - Numéro 1
Philippe Aïni
Painting - 103 x 148 x 3 cm Painting - 40.6 x 58.3 x 1.2 inch
$10,625
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Being Earth II
Guillaume Liffran
Fine Art Drawings - 44.5 x 37 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 14.6 inch
$391
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Femme drapée
Jean-Luc Celereau de Clercq
Sculpture - 15 x 56 x 26 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 22 x 10.2 inch
$7,829
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Vagina dentata
Anna Karwowska
Painting - 150 x 202 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 79.5 x 0.8 inch
$7,824 $7,042
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Slumber
Jean David
Fine Art Drawings - 20.3 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$455
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Etudes de nus I
Pierre Sojo
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$503
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Figura maschile
Maurizio Bonfanti
Painting - 129.5 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 inch
$18,400
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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.