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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The Lady and the Peacock
Carlos Gamez de Francisco
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$5,457
The Entertainer
Terrece Beesley
Painting - 40.6 x 55.9 x 1.3 cm Painting - 16 x 22 x 0.5 inch
$1,850
Malaquias abyssus
Antonio Mejias
Painting - 100 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$4,034
Sans titre #2
Zahra Zeinali
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 70 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 27.6 inch
$2,966
SAMOURAI Acteur de Kabuki
Utagawa Kunisada Toyokuni III
Print - 34 x 21 x 1 cm Print - 13.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,174
Autoportrait à la combi
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,127
Femme endormie
Léopold Survage
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 26 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 10.2 x 0 inch
$1,424
Times are changing
Akintomide Akinshola
Painting - 63.5 x 52 x 1 cm Painting - 25 x 20.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,634
ManoScape, I
Kourosh Sotoodeh
Photography - 91 x 61 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.8 x 24 x 0.2 inch
$771
An Ode of False Bonds
Olamilekan Okunade
Painting - 137.2 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 54 x 54 x 1 inch
$6,600
Buddha and Blues
Koorosh Nejad
Painting - 140 x 105.9 x 4.1 cm Painting - 55.1 x 41.7 x 1.6 inch
$2,272
Enjoying the sea breeze
Jose Luis De la Barra Bellido
Painting - 91.4 x 96.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 38 x 1 inch
$2,200
Rebel without a cause
Josh One
Painting - 147 x 98 x 4.5 cm Painting - 57.9 x 38.6 x 1.8 inch
$2,254
1985 Pierrot
Sarah Wiame-Peclard
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$2,313
Three times better than usual
Nikolay Devnenski
Sculpture - 33.5 x 20 x 36 cm Sculpture - 13.2 x 7.9 x 14.2 inch
$3,440
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dian Georgiev
Sculpture - 27 x 21 x 7.5 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 8.3 x 3 inch
$1,602
Dans le cœur
Raphaël Federici (ParisSketchCulture)
Painting - 73 x 54.5 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28.7 x 21.5 x 1 inch
$4,508
Océanie – Le Haka
Maxime Hurdequint
Sculpture - 82 x 22 x 1 cm Sculpture - 32.3 x 8.7 x 0.4 inch
$593
Bastet
Corné Akkers
Fine Art Drawings - 21.1 x 28.2 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 11.1 x 0.1 inch
$1,598
Transition - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Men, Love, Women
Ajegbomogun Damilola
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,850
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
$40,335
Mel20 - Series from Melancholia
Burak Bulut Yildirim
Photography - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,858
Retro ballet
Nikolai Angelov-Gary
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,076
Imperfect Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Faces
Odesola Idowu
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 1 inch
$2,550
Le guide
Gérard Rancinan
Photography - 125 x 125 x 1.5 cm Photography - 49.2 x 49.2 x 0.6 inch
$23,727
Pure and Simple
Therese Lydia Joseph
Painting - 91.4 x 61 x 5.1 cm Painting - 36 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,285
Portraits de mains
Jean Robert (Ipoustéguy)
Fine Art Drawings - 64 x 49 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.2 x 19.3 x 0.2 inch
$652
Rémanence la nature des choses
Joël Leick
Photography - 95 x 38 x 2 cm Photography - 37.4 x 15 x 0.8 inch
$830
Tender Love I
Lilit Soghomonyan
Fine Art Drawings - 57 x 77 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22.4 x 30.3 inch
$1,898
A(A-Un)
Tomo Sakurai
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$712
1999 Origami Angel 2 sous cloche de verre lumineuse
Y Kumanda
Sculpture - 16 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$1,127
Muhamed Ali, Chicago
Annie Leibovitz
Photography - 42.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm Photography - 16.7 x 10.8 x 0.4 inch
$10,677
Paradise Portraits (portfolio of 8)
Erwin Olaf
Photography - 18 x 13.5 x 2 cm Photography - 7.1 x 5.3 x 0.8 inch
$5,932
Roboïde dessin original rouge
PRAB'Z
Fine Art Drawings - 59.4 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.4 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
$178
Parfum de Vanille
France Courpotin
Painting - 120 x 110 x 3.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 43.3 x 1.4 inch
$3,262
Maeste II (Large Painting)
Tomasz Rut
Painting - 127 x 55.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 50 x 22 x 1 inch
$6,000
USA. New York. Black is Beautiful. 1968
Eve Arnold
Photography - 30.5 x 40.6 x 5.1 cm Photography - 12 x 16 x 2 inch
$2,350
L'étranger - série Sculpture portrait de femme
Chantal Nottrelet
Sculpture - 39 x 10 x 12 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 3.9 x 4.7 inch
$593
No Windowsill
Maxime Cousineau Perusse
Painting - 61 x 76.2 x 3.6 cm Painting - 24 x 30 x 1.4 inch
$740