L'homme debout Astolfo
Vito Imburgia
Sculpture - 37 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
$1,674
Portrait
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Uomo con bastone e cappello
Mario Poggiali
Painting - 100 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$558
La noire idole
Patrick Strajnic
Photography - 70 x 70 x 3 cm Photography - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.2 inch
$1,060
Fillette aux boucles rousse
Lucien-Philippe Moretti
Painting - 27 x 22 x 2 cm Painting - 10.6 x 8.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,098
Why are we so alone even in company?
Marc Bodie
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$726
Agnès Varda - Les plages d'Agnès
Jean-Loup Gautreau
Photography - 30 x 40 cm Photography - 11.8 x 15.7 inch
$335
Berger des Alpes et sa pipe
G. Baur
Painting - 39.5 x 30 x 0.5 cm Painting - 15.6 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
$995
Jeune femme hongroise avec un miroir
Gyula Kovács
Painting - 60 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,373
More sketches of Spain-For Miles Davis 4
George Condo
Print - 69 x 77 x 0.02 cm Print - 27.2 x 30.3 x 0 inch
$4,465
A scent of evening for You
Joanna Sierko-Filipowska
Painting - 87 x 127 x 5 cm Painting - 34.3 x 50 x 2 inch
$25,674
Retratos #1
Leonardo Fernandez Della Pietra (Lolo)
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 10 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 3.9 inch
$335
De l'un à l'autre 1&2 (diptyque)
Jean-Freddy
Painting - 81 x 120 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 47.2 x 1.2 inch
$1,228
Conjugal bond
Achike MiracleAnayo
Painting - 121.9 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 48 x 1 inch
$2,850
Temerity
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 40 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,206
The Dreamplanter
Judith Christine Riemer
Painting - 95 x 115 x 2 cm Painting - 37.4 x 45.3 x 0.8 inch
$3,740
Kuluso (Ant-Lion Larvae)
Adegbenro Adeola
Painting - 147.3 x 116.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 58 x 46 x 1 inch
$5,000
Portrait Cape Town
Jonathan Hindson
Painting - 110 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 43.3 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,507
Personnages
Serge Pahnke
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 39.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 15.6 x 0.1 inch
$618
Artiste et modèle à l'atelier
Franz Wanger
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,441
Rainbow in Winter
Christel Delrieu Pétraud
Painting - 150 x 120 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 47.2 x 1.6 inch
$5,693
Jeune compositeur
Jenny-Marguerite Zillhardt
Painting - 70 x 52 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 20.5 x 0.8 inch
$1,373
Artificially meager resources
Ale Senso
Print - 42 x 59.5 x 0.2 cm Print - 16.5 x 23.4 x 0.1 inch
$67
Jeune femme en costume oriental et bouquet de fleurs
Blanche Pierron
Painting - 85 x 55 x 2 cm Painting - 33.5 x 21.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,029
Le passeur d’étoile
Jean-Louis Mendrisse
Sculpture - 18 x 20 x 21 cm Sculpture - 7.1 x 7.9 x 8.3 inch
$4,242
Dans les Rigieres
Marie Laurencin
Painting - 28.5 x 22 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.2 x 8.7 x 0 inch
$16,186
Moses Soyer Daydream
Moses Soyer
Fine Art Drawings - 27.9 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 17 x 2 inch
$4,400
Niño de la Malvarrosa
Jose Manuel Merello
Painting - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$1,786
Right-eye Rita
Vesna Jovanovic
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$558
Amanacer
Leticia de Prado
Painting - 100 x 70 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 1.6 inch
$3,349 $2,846
Amanda Lear - Couturière HQ
Klaus Roethlisberger
Photography - 70 x 54 x 0.2 cm Photography - 27.6 x 21.3 x 0.1 inch
$1,340
Woman playing cards
Susana Mata
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.03 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$670
Renaissance écarlate - Buste de statue grecque
Creami One
Sculpture - 105 x 85 x 2 cm Sculpture - 41.3 x 33.5 x 0.8 inch
$4,074
Incandescence 2
Jean-François Morro
Painting - 100 x 73 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 28.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,206
Untitled 2
Wang Fei
Fine Art Drawings - 97 x 235 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 38.2 x 92.5 x 0.4 inch
$37,953
El Pana. La México, CDMX.
Andrés Calamaro
Photography - 40 x 60 x 2 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,763
Homme assis
Jean Hélion
Fine Art Drawings - 29.5 x 21.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.6 x 8.6 inch
$24,558
Bessie in the sky
Alice Plantain
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 35 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 13.8 x 0.4 inch
$893
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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!