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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Haibat Balaa Bawab
Fine Art Drawings - 70 x 100 x 4 cm Fine Art Drawings - 27.6 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
£5,071
L'homme debout Astolfo
Vito Imburgia
Sculpture - 37 x 10 x 8 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 3.9 x 3.1 inch
£1,317
Change of Plan
Joanna Sulek Malinowska
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
£2,191
Eyes on me custom skate deck skateboard
Andrew Wallas
Painting - 22 x 85 x 1 cm Painting - 8.7 x 33.5 x 0.4 inch
£746
Benedetta
Marco Fariello
Fine Art Drawings - 67 x 51 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch
£1,756
Innocences, Series Albahian
Joana Choumali
Photography - 80 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0 inch
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Blue Ochra Empowerment
Patrizia Casagranda
Painting - 89.9 x 129.5 x 5.1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 51 x 2 inch
£6,531
Manananggol ng Palasyo de San Lazaro ( Resurrection Day)
Alwin Reamillo
Sculpture - 11.5 x 32.5 x 2 cm Sculpture - 4.5 x 12.8 x 0.8 inch
£1,576
French Girl
Tony Potts
Photography - 41 x 56 x 0.2 cm Photography - 16.1 x 22 x 0.1 inch
£1,460 £1,314
Sans titre
Gérard Garouste
Fine Art Drawings - 78 x 58 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.7 x 22.8 inch
£12,294
Tambourinades
Gérard Traquandi
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 11.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 4.5 inch
£351
Graciela #VI- Neo Platinum
Sparshatt Dalzell
Painting - 76 x 55 x 0.2 cm Painting - 29.9 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch
£3,500
Marilyn Butterfly, Unique Wall Sculpture,
Gardani Art
Sculpture - 86.4 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm Sculpture - 34 x 34 x 2 inch
£3,611
Alaska Street
Luis Martins dit L7Matrix
Painting - 80 x 60 x 5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 2 inch
£3,425 £2,397
Blue Portrait 1979 Collection MMCA National Museum Modern Contemporary Art Seoul
Boong Hyun Choi
Painting - 115 x 88 x 0.3 cm Painting - 45.3 x 34.6 x 0.1 inch
£11,372
Patways to bliss 12
Alina Papazova
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 35 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 13.8 x 0.2 inch
£386
Selfie @ Altitude - Belgium
Stefan Darte
Photography - 42 x 60 x 0.3 cm Photography - 16.5 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
£1,291
Gypsy Dance
Salvador Vasquez del Rio
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 12 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 4.7 x 0 inch
£281
Woman
Dimitri Godycki Cwirko
Fine Art Drawings - 41.5 x 26.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.3 x 10.4 x 0 inch
£869
Personaggio dell'immaginario
Arturo Carmassi
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.1 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£114
Le vendeur de rue
Edouard Menta
Painting - 46.5 x 38.5 x 0.5 cm Painting - 18.3 x 15.2 x 0.2 inch
£2,507
La marchande de poissons, Genève 1814
Alexandre Cingria
Painting - 110.2 x 78 x 1 cm Painting - 43.4 x 30.7 x 0.4 inch
£3,667
Movida Massala
Sarah Caron
Photography - 120 x 80 x 0.1 cm Photography - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0 inch
£2,195
Portrait de sa Majesté Baudouin 1er
Pierre Piget
Painting - 61 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
£220
The old man
Bernard Bécan
Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 12 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.1 x 4.7 x 0 inch
£316
Humidity and trace #19
Jorge Dávalos
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 inch
£211
Kurhessisches Corps
Herbert Knotel
Fine Art Drawings - 21 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 8.3 x 6.1 x 0 inch
£334
Signe émotionnel Pays/Culture
Eddy Firmin
Print - 124.5 x 83.8 x 2.5 cm Print - 49 x 33 x 1 inch
£3,074
Serge Gainsbourg
Gwendal Lemercier
Painting - 29.7 x 21 x 0.2 cm Painting - 11.7 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
£246
Drawing I
Nigel Howlett
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 20 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 7.9 x 0.5 inch
£2,689
Photographie Hans Feurer - Green Girls
Hans Feurer
Print - 87 x 72 x 2 cm Print - 34.3 x 28.3 x 0.8 inch
£2,547
Serge Gainsbourg
Alain Robet
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£176
Audrey Hepburn In Rome
Norman Parkinson
Photography - 51 x 51 x 0.1 cm Photography - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0 inch
£4,874
Man lying down
Anthony Roaland
Fine Art Drawings - 29 x 41 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.4 x 16.1 x 0 inch
£334
Simple Uncle Sam
Jeff Ladouceur
Fine Art Drawings - 27.3 x 22.2 x 1.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.7 x 8.7 x 0.5 inch
£3,458
Grand Palais, Paris
Jack Garofalo
Photography - 40 x 30 x 0.1 cm Photography - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
£746
With a blue cat. At the pink table
Sasha Katinauskiene
Painting - 70 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
£878 £790
Mechanical Mermaids
The London Police Chaz and Bob
Print - 35.6 x 28 x 2.5 cm Print - 14 x 11 x 1 inch
£307
Desperate
Lucien Coutaud
Fine Art Drawings - 26 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
£316