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!
Francine Van Hove
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€2,000
Barbara Kroll
Fine Art Drawings - 99.1 x 68.6 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39 x 27 x 0.1 inch
€1,519
Vladimir Kolosov
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 0.25 inch
€804
Penuel Heber Madeira Heber Madeira
Painting - 41.9 x 29.7 x 2.5 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 1 inch
€1,224
Jean-Paul Radic
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,250
Sandrine Piegay
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 42 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 16.5 x 0.1 inch
€900
Kateryna Kostyk
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0 inch
€1,200
Yana Dmitrieva
Fine Art Drawings - 28.5 x 19.5 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.2 x 7.7 x 0 inch
€268
Claude Weisbuch
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 32 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 12.6 x 1.2 inch
€2,200
Jean Cocteau
Fine Art Drawings - 26.67 x 19.43 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.5 x 7.6 x 0.4 inch
€7,000
Isabelle Hirtzig
Fine Art Drawings - 29.7 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0 inch
€175
Rosario Heins
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0.1 inch
€2,200
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
€1,428
Benjamin II Vautier
Fine Art Drawings - 26.5 x 21 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.4 x 8.3 x 0.2 inch
€546
Clémence Wach
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 35 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
€1,000
José Fernández Morán
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 48 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 18.9 x 0.1 inch
€1,000