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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Je t’aime à enfin vivre
Yohan Storti
Painting - 100 x 100 x 4 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch
$2,106
Le chat et sa maitresse
Martine Fauve Dechavanne
Painting - 20 x 20 x 2 cm Painting - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.8 inch
$328
Portrait in Geometric Symphony
Zakhar Shevchuk
Painting - 114 x 82 x 2 cm Painting - 44.9 x 32.3 x 0.8 inch
$2,866
Souvenirs de l'été (métal)
Albena Vatcheva
Design - 76 x 76 x 0.16 cm Design - 29.9 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch
$965
Sous le chapiteau
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 28 x 25 x 0.4 cm Painting - 11 x 9.8 x 0.2 inch
$304 $259
Consulting is an external memory
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 32 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$4,446
The visionary II (Small)
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 33 x 21 x 24 cm Sculpture - 13 x 8.3 x 9.4 inch
$3,861
The missing link (Small)
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 30 x 19 x 18 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 7.5 x 7.1 inch
$3,861
Teenage fantasy - Self-made V
Alawaye Tope
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,990
Dame Carcasse - série femme de Carcassonne
Michel Philippon
Painting - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$877
Couronnement
Romain Langlois
Sculpture - 80 x 49 x 36 cm Sculpture - 31.5 x 19.3 x 14.2 inch
$35,100
Face 6 - Portrait 6
Mike Nyakusvora
Sculpture - 73 x 28 x 12 cm Sculpture - 28.7 x 11 x 4.7 inch
$2,925
The Mineral Whisperer
Sephora Venites
Print - 121.9 x 83.8 x 0.3 cm Print - 48 x 33 x 0.1 inch
$2,866
Beautiful buttercup - Self-Made VIII
Alawaye Tope
Painting - 121.9 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 48 x 36 x 1 inch
$1,990
“Pixelated Identity”
Sephora Venites
Print - 106.7 x 78.7 x 0.3 cm Print - 42 x 31 x 0.1 inch
$2,866
The Geometry of Self
Sephora Venites
Print - 106.7 x 71.1 x 0.3 cm Print - 42 x 28 x 0.1 inch
$2,562
Suave parfum - ligne9
Enrique Etievan
Painting - 61 x 50 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,925
Message caché - ligne9
Enrique Etievan
Painting - 61 x 45 x 3 cm Painting - 24 x 17.7 x 1.2 inch
$2,925
Happiness is not Far Away
Li Qingyan
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$936
Let's Go Horseback Riding
Li Qingyan
Fine Art Drawings - 68 x 68 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 26.8 x 26.8 x 0 inch
$936
Hear my Thoughts
Nina Narimanishvili
Painting - 80 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.5 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$3,393
And there is silence inside me
Liubou Sas
Painting - 50 x 40 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,925
Hombre en mascara
Ricky Cohete
Photography - 76.2 x 50.8 x 0.3 cm Photography - 30 x 20 x 0.1 inch
$2,222
Remembering good time - Bons souvenirs
Zachariah Njobo
Sculpture - 46 x 25 x 15 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 9.8 x 5.9 inch
$2,808
Il était une fois.... (1001 nuits)
Albena Vatcheva
Painting - 80 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$3,509 $3,334
Thinking muse - Portrait
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$705
Lovers - The portrait of love 3
Carmen Tyrrell
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$705
Porthcurno Beach
Nicholas Robertson
Painting - 30.5 x 40.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 12 x 15.9 x 0.2 inch
$557
Letter to Grandma
Oluwaseun Ojebiyi
Painting - 91.4 x 91.4 x 2.5 cm Painting - 36 x 36 x 1 inch
$2,350
Hold the Cat Properly
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 80 x 65 x 1.5 cm Painting - 31.5 x 25.6 x 0.6 inch
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Among Flowers
Anyck Alvarez Kerloch
Painting - 81.3 x 58.4 x 0.5 cm Painting - 32 x 23 x 0.2 inch
$555
Swaying to the Music
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 50.8 x 40.6 x 0.8 cm Painting - 20 x 16 x 0.3 inch
$827
Les Impromptus du matin - Sarasvati
Valerio Adami
Print - 21 x 15.5 x 0.1 cm Print - 8.3 x 6.1 x 0 inch
$328
Dinner and a Movie
Anthony Dunphy
Painting - 40.6 x 50.8 x 0.8 cm Painting - 16 x 20 x 0.3 inch
$760
Giovanna d'Arco
Alexander Daniloff
Painting - 14 x 9 x 0.2 cm Painting - 5.5 x 3.5 x 0.1 inch
$91 $78
Philemon and baucis
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 30 x 33 x 40 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13 x 15.7 inch
$9,945
IIXV (New size with socle)
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 148 x 55 x 50 cm Sculpture - 58.3 x 21.7 x 19.7 inch
$10,413
Almost Flying (on sphere)
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 67 x 30 x 30 cm Sculpture - 26.4 x 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$8,775
Almost flying (with socle)
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 149 x 50 x 35 cm Sculpture - 58.7 x 19.7 x 13.8 inch
$10,413
The drowning of consumption, teddy bear sauce
Idan Wizen
Photography - 60 x 90 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 35.4 x 0 inch
$1,404
