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!
Claire Bonnet-Masimbert
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 65 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0.4 inch
€500
Manuel Santelices
Fine Art Drawings - 38.1 x 38.1 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 0.1 inch
€814
Clara Castagné
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0 inch
€3,200
Vladimir Kolosov
Fine Art Drawings - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.6 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 16 x 0.25 inch
€814
Christophe Hohler
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€1,950
Anastacia Kevich
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0 inch
€1,356
Athéna Menekratis
Fine Art Drawings - 60 x 60 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,150
Ivan Castiblanco
Fine Art Drawings - 39.9 x 39.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€1,356
Mansour El Habre
Fine Art Drawings - 42 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
€1,900
Jean-Claude Desmerges
Fine Art Drawings - 78.5 x 54.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 30.9 x 21.5 x 0.4 inch
€2,500
Iana Cherepansky
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€995
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€950 €808
Florian Song Nguyen
Fine Art Drawings - 58.5 x 39.5 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 23 x 15.6 x 0.4 inch
€1,950
Paloma Castello
Fine Art Drawings - 41.9 x 58.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 16.5 x 23.2 x 0.1 inch
€904
Michael Alan
Fine Art Drawings - 295.9 x 58.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 116.5 x 22.9 x 0.04 inch
€1,100
Atom Hovhanesyan
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 40.6 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0 inch
€72,337
Arancha Tejedor
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€120
Brian Calvin
Fine Art Drawings - 33.2 x 14.9 x 2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 13.1 x 5.9 x 0.8 inch
€7,234
Albena Vatcheva
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€450 €428
