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People on the coast II
Yelda Inecik
Painting - 42 x 29 x 0.1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.4 x 0 inch
$518
Diamond in the rough
Damilola Olusegun
Painting - 152.4 x 127 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 inch
$5,500
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 4
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,106
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 3
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,106
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 2
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,106
E femine spulanu cennera è incendenu focu .. jc s'agita 1
Olivier Godat
Painting - 35 x 35 x 5 cm Painting - 13.8 x 13.8 x 2 inch
$1,106
Joyeux musiciens
Joseph Piermatteo
Painting - 73 x 92 x 3 cm Painting - 28.7 x 36.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,766
We Grow When We Know Love
Taiwo Odejinmi
Painting - 91.4 x 90.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 35.8 x 1 inch
$2,500
Girl Crying II
Jochen Cerny
Photography - 100 x 121 x 3 cm Photography - 39.4 x 47.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,873
2153
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 89.9 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 35.4 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,390
1060, From The series One
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 104.9 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 34 x 0.1 inch
$2,600
1892, From The series One
Salvatore Arnone
Photography - 104.9 x 86.4 x 0.3 cm Photography - 41.3 x 34 x 0.1 inch
$2,600
Le temps passe, tu l'espionnes
Clement Garnung
Painting - 130 x 140 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 55.1 x 1.2 inch
$3,541
A Lad Insane
Karen Lesley Chappelow
Painting - 101 x 88 x 2 cm Painting - 39.8 x 34.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,693
The begining of the end
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 130 x 162 x 5 cm Painting - 51.2 x 63.8 x 2 inch
$8,631
Want my apple too?
Claudia Benavente
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,656
Teoría de interferencia
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 94 x 177.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 37 x 70 x 0.2 inch
$4,000
Days fade away
Roberto Fonfria
Painting - 177.8 x 124.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 70 x 49 x 0.2 inch
$4,000
Puro... Alegría #VI- Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$4,536
Puro... Alegría #VIII- Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$4,536
Graciela #VII- Neo Platinum (1) (1)
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$4,536
Puro...Alegría #IV - Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
$4,536
Midnight. From La Música Nocturna Series
Sergio Bazan
Painting - 160 x 160 x 0.3 cm Painting - 63 x 63 x 0.1 inch
$3,000
Le Rouge & le Noir
Agnès Robin
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 3.8 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1.5 inch
$2,592
GUERRE, prisonnier du camp de concentration WAR, concentration camp prisonner
Joze Ciuha
Painting - 90 x 50 x 0.5 cm Painting - 35.4 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$5,527 $2,764
1966 White Paris Blanc Bistro Le Joueur de dés Bistro Dice player
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 37.75 x 52.75 cm Painting - 14.9 x 20.8 inch
$3,264 $1,632
Muse au téléphone monumental 1972 Mathausen
Florian Hunger-Pegof
Photography - 100 x 120 x 0.75 cm Photography - 39.4 x 47.2 x 0.3 inch
$5,422
Oaxaca – Un Ruban Autour D’une Bombe
SoRi
Painting - 120 x 80 x 7 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2.8 inch
$3,319
Not quite there yet (still invisible)
Rhett Boland
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$2,905
1959 Père enfant Father child
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 140 x 98 x 1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 38.6 x 0.4 inch
$5,090 $2,545
PARIS ORANGE PARIS Parisienne aux faux cils 1958 Parisian with false eyelashes
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 65 x 48 x 0.5 cm Painting - 25.6 x 18.9 x 0.2 inch
$5,477 $2,739
1962 Parisiennes Confidences Parisians
Jochen Michaelis
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0.2 inch
$5,477
Portrait
Portraits are one of the oldest genres of painting known to art, and it first appeared in ancient Egypt. For several centuries, there was a tendency to idealize features in order flatter important patrons for whom the portrait was for. Then, progressively, artists started to turn to ordinary people for their sitters, with fewer requirements limiting their choices, they were able to paint increasingly realist works.
Portraiture was influenced by the many movements of the 20th century and, rather than getting closer to reality, painters used portraits as a means to experiment with new artistic techniques and theories. Photography and sculpture followed a similar path, thus showing the incredible creativity and interpretation of artists.
Today there is an enormous variety of unusual portraits that don't aim flatter their sitters in the least but rather be expressive. Disfigured faces, surprising collages, distorted human forms and even creatures that are half-human, half-animal: there are no rules and creativity flows!