Femme sortie de l'ombre
Ghislaine Ferreira
Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,866
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Painting - 120 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 47.2 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
£1,866
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
£2,133
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
£1,161
Fine Art Drawings - 75.9 x 55.9 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 inch
£1,161
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
£4,888
Painting - 130 x 95 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 37.4 x 1.2 inch
£2,577
Fine Art Drawings - 17.5 x 27.2 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 6.9 x 10.7 x 0 inch
£355
Fine Art Drawings - 28 x 22 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11 x 8.7 x 0 inch
£355
Sculpture - 93 x 70 x 42 cm Sculpture - 36.6 x 27.6 x 16.5 inch
£19,552
Painting - 200 x 150 x 3 cm Painting - 78.7 x 59.1 x 1.2 inch
£10,665
Painting - 50 x 50 x 4 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 1.6 inch
£711
Fine Art Drawings - 200 x 150 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 78.7 x 59.1 x 0.1 inch
£7,998
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
£2,666
Painting - 120 x 180 x 0.5 cm Painting - 47.2 x 70.9 x 0.2 inch
£1,393
Painting - 70 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
£1,393
Painting - 60 x 80 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 inch
£1,095
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 50 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 19.7 x 0 inch
£444
Fine Art Drawings - 90 x 120 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 35.4 x 47.2 x 0 inch
£693
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£355
Painting - 32 x 24 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.4 x 0.4 inch
£400
Sculpture - 60.5 x 60.5 x 17 cm Sculpture - 23.8 x 23.8 x 6.7 inch
£2,886
Sadness, melancholy and gloom have found an outlet in artists throughout history and in the depiction of figurative art. Through artists, humanity and their emotional and physical states are portrayed to be viewed and related to. The instant recognition of such a grave subject also plagues human history itself, thus carving out its own rightful spot amongst the history of art movements. In Edgar Degas' 1875 painting L'Absinthe, where viewers see a portrait of a young woman solemnly contemplating her situation, disengaged from their gaze, her surroundings, maybe even from herself.
Dark hues and colors define somber portrait painting and can highlight the cause of such sadness, whether that be the subject's emotional state or a greater rendering of the world's expanse and the human existence within it. Existential or not, the traits of somber artwork can be found in our own collection of portraits on Artsper. The portraiture work of Nicolas Fropo de Habart works the body in all its dimensions to create an absolute feeling of vastness while Antoine Stevens also depicts wandering souls in his dimmed portraiture. But given the nature of humanity, somber depictions of the figure are not entirely unexpected…