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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Puro... alegria
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 40 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.4 inch
$2,046 $1,841
Divinité 10
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954 $858
Divinité 13
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954 $858
El Barbudo
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$981 $883
La rue, estampe originale de Di Rosa
Hervé Di Rosa
Print - 105 x 51 cm Print - 41.3 x 20.1 inch
$1,431
Inséparables
Jéko
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 29.7 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0.1 inch
$989 $891
Regard sur l'univers
Irene Mahon
Painting - 60 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 2 inch
$668 $601
A Dream Of A Child
Kirill Postovit
Fine Art Drawings - 32 x 47 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.6 x 18.5 x 0 inch
$1,431
Tiger's Soul
Raphaël Laventure
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.4 inch
$7,749
Paix - Le Pacifiste
Bernard Buffet
Print - 76 x 59.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.9 x 23.4 x 0 inch
$5,365 $4,828
Madalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon
Youthone
Painting - 103 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 40.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$1,192 $1,073
Divinité 8
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954
Divinité 14
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954
Divinité 15
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954 $858
Divinité 6
Dasz Panda
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$954
Buste de Long John Silver
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 30 x 21 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 8.3 x 6.7 inch
$9,537
Your arms are like wings
Liubou Sas
Painting - 90 x 90 x 3 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,576
Graciela
James Sparshatt
Photography - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Photography - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,528 $3,175
Souvenirs de l'été (métal)
Albena Vatcheva
Design - 76 x 76 x 0.16 cm Design - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$984 $935
Colorful faces ? 13
Asko
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$5,365 $4,828
Bacan, Tito & Boby, Tilingo and Julian
Antonio Segui
Sculpture - 50 x 100 x 70 cm Sculpture - 19.7 x 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$4,769
Aquarelle graphique 1
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$954
Aquarelle graphique 5
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 46 x 36 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18.1 x 14.2 x 0.4 inch
$954
Aquarelle graphique 6
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$954
Vive les fleurs XXX
Seb Paul Michel
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$596
Don de soi III
Feng Kaixuan
Photography - 60 x 90 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$4,292
Spring Elegance: Woman in Blue Coat with Red Berries
Diana Timchenko
Painting - 110 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 43.3 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,200