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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Musiciens de manège
Jean-Jacques Kugel
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 0.8 inch
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Jeu de dame
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
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Parfum de magie
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Keep the children away #2
Dada Wa
Painting - 135 x 135 x 3 cm Painting - 53.1 x 53.1 x 1.2 inch
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Blues du jazzman
Jeannette Guichard-Bunel
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
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Portrait De Jacques De Chapeaurouge / Portrait Of Jacques De Chapeaurouge (1744-1805)
Jean-Etienne Liotard
Print - 49 x 35 cm Print - 19.3 x 13.8 inch
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Untitled
Alexandre Taillandier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
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BLUE#2 N°8/23
Guillaume Girardot
Photography - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$834
New York, Houston, Pop Art Influence Réf : CPBD1129
Claude Frégère
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$536
Whisper of Nature
Temitope Ojumoro
Painting - 104 x 90 x 2 cm Painting - 40.9 x 35.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,788
La violoncelliste Réf : CPBD1143
Claude Frégère
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$536
Sans Titre
Jean-Baptiste Dumont
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$143
Ascension (Everyone desserves to groove)
Vincent Carpentier
Painting - 130 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 51.2 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
$2,205
Qu'est ce qu'on attend 7
Flo Jaouen
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$3,219
Danse dans les bras du vent
Nancy Vuylsteke de Laps
Sculpture - 48 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 18.9 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$7,034
Arc-en-ciel
Nancy Vuylsteke de Laps
Sculpture - 28 x 47 x 17 cm Sculpture - 11 x 18.5 x 6.7 inch
$5,841
Le bruit des hommes me rappelle que je ne suis pas seule au monde...
Barbara Lavenda
Painting - 56 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
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Nu de dos
Changzheng Zhu
Fine Art Drawings - 38 x 38 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 0 inch
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Donde nace el horizonte nº8
Marta Fàbregas
Painting - 100 x 70 x 5 cm Painting - 39.4 x 27.6 x 2 inch
$3,576
Seran - collection spéciale Grands Formats
Christophe Malsert
Print - 150 x 150 x 1 cm Print - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.4 inch
$2,146
To Dye or Not To Die. Drawings From the covid diaries series
Megha Joshi
Fine Art Drawings - 40.6 x 30.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16 x 12 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
Heads - Ian (Cutout Sculpture)
Julian Opie
Sculpture - 35.8 x 33.9 x 10 cm Sculpture - 14.1 x 13.3 x 3.9 inch
$13,113
La Fumeuse de St Jacques
Zafi
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,907
Sisterhood - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Modern, Love
Daniel Owoeye
Painting - 106.7 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 42 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,950
Folie à Deux- Joker
Diederik Van Apple
Painting - 100 x 109 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 42.9 x 1.6 inch
$5,901
Cosi Fan Tutte Fleurdelise
Erte Tirtoff
Painting - 38.1 x 26.7 x 0.3 cm Painting - 15 x 10.5 x 0.1 inch
$2,963
The Girl's Own Paper, 1885
Alexander Korzer-Robinson
Sculpture - 29 x 22 x 5 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 8.7 x 2 inch
$954
Covered by Forest
Svante Gullichsen
Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,258
Osmose - série sculpture et corps en matière
Jf Carer
Sculpture - 79 x 31 x 31 cm Sculpture - 31.1 x 12.2 x 12.2 inch
$12,517
Jeune fille aux papillons
Serge Kalinowski
Painting - 41 x 33 x 3 cm Painting - 16.1 x 13 x 1.2 inch
$870
Aquarelles graphiques 3
Agathe Wagner
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 46 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
$954
Autoportrait 3
Jean-Michel Pradel-Fraysse
Sculpture - 45 x 35 x 35 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 13.8 x 13.8 inch
$11,921
Das Zimmer im zweiten Stock / La chambre au deuxième étage
Franz Roth
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 inch
$775
