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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David Martinez
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,786
Old man with glasses
Virut Panchabuse
Painting - 180 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 70.9 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
$17,858
Aquarelle graphique 9
Agathe Wagner
Painting - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$952
Aquarelle graphique 9
Agathe Wagner
Painting - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$952
Aquarelle graphique 3
Agathe Wagner
Painting - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$952
Aquarelle graphique 2
Agathe Wagner
Painting - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$952
Aquarelle graphique 10
Agathe Wagner
Painting - 36 x 46 x 0.1 cm Painting - 14.2 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$952
True African Beauty Yellow Handmade Sculpture for Home Decor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 36 x 27 x 13 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 10.6 x 5.1 inch
$212
Hercules’ First Labor
Dervis Akdemir
Sculpture - 49 x 32 x 15 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 12.6 x 5.9 inch
$282
Prométhée, maquette
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 80 x 20 x 23 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 7.9 x 9.1 inch
$29,763
The True, The Good, and The Beautiful 3
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$952
The True, The Good, and The Beautiful 2
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$952
The True, The Good, and The Beautiful
Mideo M. Cruz
Painting - 73 x 58 x 1 cm Painting - 28.7 x 22.8 x 0.4 inch
$952
Torse de Prométhée II
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 121 x 72 x 36 cm Sculpture - 47.6 x 28.3 x 14.2 inch
$71,431
Prométhée, tête
Christophe Charbonnel
Sculpture - 86 x 37 x 43 cm Sculpture - 33.9 x 14.6 x 16.9 inch
$53,573
Son courage à deux mains
JM Robert
Painting - 81 x 65 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 25.6 x 1.2 inch
$3,333
Portrait #52. From the Portraits series
Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku
Painting - 30 x 20.8 x 0.3 cm Painting - 11.8 x 8.2 x 0.1 inch
$1,200
No Heroes in Troubled Times
Su Yu
Painting - 200 x 360 x 6 cm Painting - 78.7 x 141.7 x 2.4 inch
$27,382
No Interview at the Intersection
Su Yu
Painting - 255 x 540 x 6 cm Painting - 100.4 x 212.6 x 2.4 inch
$56,550
Liberty (Song of Freedom)
Oluwafemi Akanmu
Painting - 71.1 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,100
View from the outside. Eyes
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,268
A la mode (Fashionable)
Samson Toba
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$3,800
Monna Lisa
Mino Maccari
Fine Art Drawings - 24 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$833
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 3
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$761
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 2
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$761
Red maiden. Dragonfly. 1
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 29 x 29 x 4 cm Painting - 11.4 x 11.4 x 1.6 inch
$761
Mademoiselle Colette
Kristina Mallen
Painting - 31 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting - 12.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch
$655
Joy Within (Yellow Rose)
Babafemi Ogunkanmbi
Painting - 101.6 x 66 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 26 x 1 inch
$3,000
Nostalgia for the sea
Ljubow Jung
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$824
