Somber Portrait Painters
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The project of landscape: Implantation of the supermarket
Ya-Wei Li
Painting - 210 x 553 x 4 cm Painting - 82.7 x 217.7 x 1.6 inch
€57,000
Retrato 3
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
€1,354
Retrato 2
Juan Sebastian Barbera
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
€1,354
My Brother's Room
Teona Yamanidze
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€5,500
Mask in pinks and blue
Marc Prat
Painting - 130 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
€2,900
Catching a Shadow
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 27.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.9 x 10.7 x 0 inch
€400
La Mezzana
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.7 x 0 inch
€400
Femme sortie de l'ombre 3
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Femme sortie de l'ombre 3
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Femme sortie de l'ombre 2
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 81 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Femme sortie de l'ombre
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
€2,100
Femme en orange
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
€2,400
Le nouveau règne
Yoann Merienne
Sculpture - 93 x 70 x 42 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 27.6 x 16.5 inch
€22,000
Girl of Tim Burton
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
€400
Écorce, portrait I
Yoann Merienne
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
€12,000
Sans titre
Philippe Pasqua
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
€9,000
Verlaine
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 29 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.4 x 11.4 x 0.2 inch
€16,000
6:22pm – Beirut Explosion, August 4
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 120 x 180 x 0.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.2 inch
€1,625
Architectural scene
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 70 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
€1,625
Captain America
Ponthep Supunsaleekul
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
€800
Achrafieh – Karm El Zeytoun
Dzovig Arnelian
Painting - 60 x 80 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
€1,277
Camille Claudel, série Les Palpitantes
Alice Laverty
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€3,000
Pensif
Erdna André
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€500
Toro study
Marc Prat
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
€780
Installation 2
Sarkis Sislian
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
€3,366
The Gig
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 4 x 10 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 1.6 x 3.9 x 0 inch
€420
Three Horsemen
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 28.8 x 20.8 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.3 x 8.2 x 0 inch
€480
Somber Portrait Painters
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…