Andy Warhol – Polaroid Photograph from the Sex Parts and Torsos Series, 1977

Throughout art history, artists were dazzled by the human figure – from prehistory, through Renaissance when the representation of corporeality became more elaborate, to Modernism where it became distorted, deranged and abstract. The urge to determine the representational cannons is justified just as well as the deconstruction of it is, but whichever the strategy is undertaken by the artists, the fact is that the human body constantly evolved and so did the socially accepted ideals of the same.

After the centuries of art making, in a contemporary moment, the artists can express themselves however they want, and so the depiction of corporeality became a flexible and rather heterogeneous category.

We have now selected eight exceptional artworks made in different epochs which you can add to your collection now.

Featured image: Babeth Montagnier – Elsa 4614. All images courtesy of their respective galleries.