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La Diagonale des fous
Alexis Berg
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,330
Golf Caddies
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 50 x 76 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 29.9 x 0 inch
$743
Bien Charlie
José Luis Pagador Ponce
Painting - 120 x 100 x 5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 39.4 x 2 inch
$7,714
Torse Épigastrique (Opus 377)
Miguel Berrocal
Sculpture - 15 x 7 x 5 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 2.8 x 2 inch
$2,012
Marathon - New York - Wall Sculpture | 80th Birthday
David Gerstein
Sculpture - 84 x 160 x 15 cm Sculpture - 33.1 x 63 x 5.9 inch
$13,975
Skiing with Snowflakes
Rusiko Chikvaidze
Painting - 52 x 52 x 3 cm Painting - 20.5 x 20.5 x 1.2 inch
$1,565
Los Angeles skater
Yaroslav Yasenev
Painting - 150 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$2,012
LA C.A.P. One, Cité des Anges
Mitch Richmond
Sculpture - 15 x 27 x 18 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 10.6 x 7.1 inch
$671
Délicatesse
Marcela Zemanova
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$615
Savannah Strike - Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
Alain Le Garsmeur
Photography - 50 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$665
Maxime Medard
Clément Poitrenaud
Photography - 30 x 30 x 4 cm Photography - 11.8 x 11.8 x 1.6 inch
$1,453
1988 Centenaire Roland Garros BLEUE Roland Garros Centenary BLUE
Blaise Simon Balazs
Print - 22 x 15 x 0.3 cm Print - 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.1 inch
$1,062 $531
Jean-Pierre Rives
Mark Leech
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,180
Billy Bremner forever
Patrick Gripe
Photography - 30 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,342
The last huntsman
Ian Bradshaw
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$1,107
Où est Charlie ? V
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$140
Où est Charlie ? IV
Tanguy Mendrisse
Photography - 30 x 24 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$140
Squad - Collection Hey Mars
Rodrigo
Photography - 40 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 10.4 x 0 inch
$1,398
Jump - Collection Hey Mars
Rodrigo
Photography - 40 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 10.4 x 0 inch
$1,398
Untitled
Francesc Genovés
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$620
Untitled, New York Series 14
Luca Battaglia
Photography - 60 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0 inch
$894
Coming Closer, or Nikyia and Solor in La Bayadere
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$324
Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$324
Love is (not) a fight
Bob Tonic
Sculpture - 30 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$2,907
Francis Joyon
Christophe Paucelier
Photography - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$1,062
Purple Mystery in the Heart Beat
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$324
Blue Light Running through the Bodies Makes Everything Gracefully so
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 90 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$324
Vélo - route - La Victoire
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 31 x 31 x 9 cm Sculpture - 12.2 x 12.2 x 3.5 inch
$2,337
Barbie collection #10
Grzegorz Sikorski
Photography - 70 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$212
Grand Sumo noir
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 85 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,025
Grand sumo rouge
François Rambaud
Sculpture - 85 x 70 x 50 cm Sculpture - 33.5 x 27.6 x 19.7 inch
$4,025
Poids Plume
Eléonore de Moffarts
Sculpture - 54 x 27 x 10 cm Sculpture - 21.3 x 10.6 x 3.9 inch
$5,590
Sunny Side of Sparkling Dance Company
Joanna Glazer
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$324
Sport
At school, we sometimes tend to oppose athletes and artists. However, sport and art often mix and sublimate each other. The meeting of these two disciplines is frequent in the history of art and more particularly in contemporary art.
Already during Antiquity, the Greeks devoted an absolute cult to the perfect athletic body. On pots and vases, artists painted the exploits of the competitors of the first Olympic Games in the 8th century BC.
Whatever the medium (photography, painting, sculpture, collage...), the musculature and the psychological state of the sportsmen, the places of training or the competitions are inexhaustible sources of inspiration for the artists. Between the representation of reality and the hijacking of a symbol, sport is a recurring theme for young artists.
Discover with Artsper our Olympic podium of artworks!
Photography is probably the first medium that comes to mind when representing sports. It is the only medium that allows us to capture images of the athletes' prowess at full speed. Thus, the shots are taken on the spot to offer a better rendering of the movement and to manage to capture the palpable tension on the field, the team cohesion, the crucial moment...
A leader of the new wave, Gerry Cranham had a career in athletics before becoming a coach. Passionate about photography, he takes pictures of the young people he coaches in order to correct their position and analyze their stride. Very quickly, he decided to convert his hobby into a real job. He became a sports photographer and quickly built a reputation as one of the leading sports photographers in England and internationally. His pictures of rugby, soccer, tennis, wrestling and swimming were published all over the world in the most prestigious magazines such as Sport Illustrated or The Observer.
But sport also inspired painters and it is found in all artistic movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1853, Gustave Courbet painted "The Wrestlers", a large oil on canvas depicting two men practicing French wrestling in the old hippodrome of the Champs Élysées. To the right, in the background, one can see the audience, cheering the athletes. Among the Impressionists, Claude Monet developed his technique with "Les Régates d'Argenteuil", an 1872 painting in which the boats are reflected in the water in a magnificent way. In modern art, Nicolas de Staël's "Les Footballeurs" represents a soccer field in the middle of a match, but in an abstract way. The players are discernible thanks to the flat colors that make up the team jerseys.
You too can bring your passions to life through contemporary sports paintings, sculptures and photographs. Discover the work of well-known and emerging artists such as Victor Spahn, Isabelle Picarel, Michel Birot, Chiara Dazi and many others...