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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Portrait #2. 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
Fire in my soul
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 180 x 180 x 6 cm Painting - 70.9 x 70.9 x 2.4 inch
$14,448
Une vie d'homme...
Javier Navarro Avilés
Painting - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
$867
That look you give
Sammy Slabbinck
Photography - 100 x 80 x 5 cm Photography - 39.4 x 31.5 x 2 inch
$2,138
Voices in the Wind
Mario Henrique
Painting - 150 x 150 x 4 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 1.6 inch
$10,287
Sous le ciel de Provence
Raya Sorkine
Painting - 55 x 46 x 2 cm Painting - 21.7 x 18.1 x 0.8 inch
$10,287
Le soleil et la paix
Sergio Moscona
Painting - 63 x 23 x 2 cm Painting - 24.8 x 9.1 x 0.8 inch
$2,543
Aprender a caminar y salir del pozo gravitacional #3
Ivan Castiblanco
Painting - 93 x 93 x 0.3 cm Painting - 36.6 x 36.6 x 0.1 inch
$2,500
Sculpted Heritage (Beauty Within Us)
Fasalejo Tobiloba
Painting - 61 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Painting - 24 x 20 x 1 inch
$1,350
Amigo 7
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Painting - 104.9 x 99.8 x 2 cm Painting - 41.3 x 39.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,000
Donna Summer
Michael Putland
Photography - 61 x 51 x 0.01 cm Photography - 24 x 20.1 x 0 inch
$2,023
Les Mannequins (The Supermodels) 2
Alawaye Tope
Painting - 76.2 x 76.2 x 2.5 cm Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 inch
$1,850
Wine and Festival
Kamo Atoyan
Painting - 80 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$1,100 $935
Zelf Portret (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
Chuli Herrera
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$8,322
Wagner
Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Fine Art Drawings - 36 x 40 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.2 x 15.7 inch
$20,806
Méditation en lotus
Brigitte De Cesco
Sculpture - 20 x 16 x 5 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 6.3 x 2 inch
$925
Selfportrait Green
Valentine Dardel
Painting - 120 x 80 x 6 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 2.4 inch
Sold
Unknown Soldier - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Military, Veteran, Men
Makama John
Painting - 101.6 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm Painting - 40 x 40 x 1 inch
$2,650 $1,988
Eve and forbidden fruit
Pintor Nicolás
Painting - 60 x 90 x 1.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0.6 inch
$1,200
Portrait of My Barber (At The Barber Shop)
Eyitayo Alagbe
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$4,250
Caleidoscopio
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$4,970
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 2e Acte
Erte Tirtoff
Fine Art Drawings - 37 x 28 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14.6 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$3,930
Fashion on the Street, Paris 1963
Uwe Ommer
Photography - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.3 cm Photography - 20 x 16 x 0.1 inch
$1,250
Family Portrait 2
Wisdom Uche
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$1,650 $1,320
There must have been an angel by my side
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 65 x 54 x 3 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 1.2 inch
$8,438
Liberté de penser
Cécile Desserle
Painting - 70 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,081
Flammarion. Photograph intervened by the artists.
Hunter & Gatti
Photography - 29.5 x 21.7 x 0.3 cm Photography - 11.6 x 8.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,080
Situation bancale sous latitude 45'3
Nicolas Monjo
Painting - 65 x 54 x 2 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,543
Helping Hand, Charming Snakes and Earth Needs Us Both. Ceramic Vase sculptures
Alex Hodge
Design - 22.1 x 39.4 x 6.4 cm Design - 8.7 x 15.5 x 2.5 inch
$2,450
Au grand Café de Barbizon
Sylvie Julkowski-Egard
Painting - 92 x 73 x 2 cm Painting - 36.2 x 28.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,734
The Tree of Life
Kateryna Ocheredko
Painting - 90 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$1,900
