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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Harmony in Color
Marina Belousova
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
$1,000
Sweet and Sour
Ganiyat Abdulazeez
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$3,200
Ghetto Blaster
Raphaelle Emery
Sculpture - 45.5 x 40.5 x 2 cm Sculpture - 17.9 x 15.9 x 0.8 inch
$1,311
Variation picturale I
Yoland Rafougilet
Photography - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Photography - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$942
These 2 photos were taken ....
Ben
Photography - 30 x 36 x 0.5 cm Photography - 11.8 x 14.2 x 0.2 inch
$4,769
Untitled
Larissa De Jesus Negron
Painting - 34.3 x 27.9 x 2 cm Painting - 13.5 x 11 x 0.8 inch
$3,000
John Lennon, Statue of Liberty, New York City
Bob Gruen
Print - 58.4 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm Print - 23 x 17 x 2 inch
$1,150
Portrait - The Game of Life
Guoyi Liu
Painting - 150 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$15,259
Coluche
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Painting - 162 x 130 x 3 cm Painting - 63.8 x 51.2 x 1.2 inch
$2,980 $2,384
Women
Guelfo Bianchini
Fine Art Drawings - 50.5 x 36 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.9 x 14.2 x 0.1 inch
$954
A Couple
Jeanne Daour
Fine Art Drawings - 14.7 x 21 x 0.4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.8 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
$596
La question
Albane de Saint Remy
Fine Art Drawings - 35 x 24 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.8 x 9.4 x 0 inch
$858
Autoportrait
Frederic Weisz
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
$954
I Also Have A Rose - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative Impasto, Floral Women
Dan Uduak-obong
Painting - 119.9 x 118.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 46.5 x 1 inch
$2,450
Przywilej (privilege)
Bartlomiej Zalucki
Painting - 100 x 100 x 1 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$3,398
Girl drinking an egg
Kateryna Krivchach
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$850
She Learned To Have Faith In Her Abilities
Grady Tomlinson Zeeman
Painting - 70 x 70 x 2.8 cm Painting - 27.6 x 27.6 x 1.1 inch
$2,623
Portrait
Albert Fernand-Renault
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 42 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$596
Arara V - Guacamaya. Cultura Kayapó, Brasil
Antonio Briceño
Photography - 120 x 120 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 47.2 x 0 inch
$8,106
Mann mit weissem Hemd
Stephan Balkenhol
Print - 140 x 100 x 3 cm Print - 55.1 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$26,823
I’ll be with her when the roses bloom again
Filippa Bjerling
Painting - 103 x 73 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40.6 x 28.7 x 1 inch
$2,742
Duo - sculpture scène de vie homme et femme
Cécile Robert-Sermage
Sculpture - 34 x 12 x 8 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 4.7 x 3.1 inch
$864
Pink Hawaii 1957 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
Toni Frissell
Photography - 51 x 41 x 0.001 cm Photography - 20.1 x 16.1 x 0 inch
$942
Girl
Nino Cordio
Fine Art Drawings - 44.5 x 31 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 12.2 x 0.1 inch
$656
Portrait
Serge Fontinsky
Fine Art Drawings - 35.5 x 23.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 9.3 x 0.1 inch
$691
Portrait of Arab
Jean Louis Plumet
Fine Art Drawings - 29.2 x 20 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.5 x 7.9 x 0.1 inch
$656
1866812
Alain Patrick Korenberg
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,788
The Mac Chicken
Zo
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$697
Zoro
Christian Zeimert
Fine Art Drawings - 77 x 57 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.3 x 22.4 x 0.2 inch
$954
Pastorale africaine - Complicité, frères et soeurs
Catherine Clare
Print - 50 x 50 x 2 cm Print - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$715
Portrait d'Antonin Artaud
Jean Olivier Hucleux
Print - 75 x 55 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0 inch
$715
Comfort Zone
Anastasia Gladkova (Naska)
Painting - 76 x 76 x 3.5 cm Painting - 29.9 x 29.9 x 1.4 inch
$2,000
Open Self Model (Single Green Female)
Carroll Dunham
Print - 78.7 x 64.8 cm Print - 31 x 25.5 inch
$2,742
Études pour les passants
Michel Houssin
Fine Art Drawings - 38.5 x 31.5 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.2 x 12.4 x 0.1 inch
$656
Nai (Identity Assertions Series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 30 x 36.5 x 0.1 cm Photography - 11.8 x 14.4 x 0 inch
$954
