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!

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Print, Motherhood, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 35 x 25 x 0.2 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Robot, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch

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Print, Couple, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 50 x 35 x 0.1 cm Print - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0 inch

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Print, Girl, Ugo Rambaldi

Ugo Rambaldi

Print - 65 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Harlequin, Mauro Capitani

Mauro Capitani

Print - 69.5 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.4 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, The Absent, Stefania Guidi

Stefania Guidi

Print - 69.7 x 49.7 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.4 x 19.6 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Robot, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch

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Print, Sopranos, Al Hirschfeld

Al Hirschfeld

Print - 50.8 x 63.5 x 2 cm Print - 20 x 25 x 0.8 inch

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Print, Untitled, Ibrahim Kodra

Ibrahim Kodra

Print - 35 x 25 x 0.1 cm Print - 13.8 x 9.8 x 0 inch

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Print, Masque, Frank Wallerand

Frank Wallerand

Print - 50 x 32 x 0.02 cm Print - 19.7 x 12.6 x 0 inch

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Print, Medusa, Eugene Berman

Eugene Berman

Print - 48 x 65 x 0.1 cm Print - 18.9 x 25.6 x 0 inch

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Print, Face, Carlo Levi

Carlo Levi

Print - 78 x 58 x 0.2 cm Print - 30.7 x 22.8 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Emma, Samuel Buri

Samuel Buri

Print - 66 x 50 cm Print - 26 x 19.7 inch

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Print, Gypsy, Jovan Vulic

Jovan Vulic

Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Figures, Schang Hutter

Schang Hutter

Print - 23 x 34.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 9.1 x 13.6 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Pin-up, Philippe Berthet

Philippe Berthet

Print - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

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Print, Pin-up, Philippe Berthet

Philippe Berthet

Print - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Print - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch

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Print, Arlequin, Charles Walch

Charles Walch

Print - 76 x 54 cm Print - 29.9 x 21.3 inch

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Print, Marat, Bernard Buffet

Bernard Buffet

Print - 76 x 53 x 0.3 cm Print - 29.9 x 20.9 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Untitled, Théo Tobiasse

Théo Tobiasse

Print - 76.2 x 55.9 x 0.3 cm Print - 30 x 22 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Bord de Mer, Jone Hopper

Jone Hopper

Print - 59.4 x 42 x 0.1 cm Print - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0 inch

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Print, The Diva, Fernando Farulli

Fernando Farulli

Print - 70 x 49.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Woman, Marcello Ercole

Marcello Ercole

Print - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch

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