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

Jeune fille au serre tête rouge et étude de nu

Lecteur sur le ventre - Série corps humain

1970

Elena and Cressie get ready for the party 3

N 3

Questions

Senza titolo

Poolside

The inner peace

Retrato

Solitaire

Journal d'un confiné - 4

Ballet IV

Salma

Peek-A-Boo - 1

La Tendance

Les Fauves

Summernights

Ardore

Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil (M)

Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women

Soulful Melodic Insight - 21st Century

5- Masque à l'os

Woman with a white cat

First Fruit - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Mother and Child

Solitude 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Neo-Expressionism, Mixed Media, Africa

Woman in the Sun

Madone avec enfants et angelot

Rouge baiser, cheveux au vent

Stroke - Les machines de la médecine - série Collages

Seduce

Untitled

Ohne Titel (2 Köpfe und Pflanzen)

Mario

Look For

L’adieu aux armes, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzanie

Madone

Not Hopeless

Self Care V

Shurale

Comfort and Grace

Known Delight - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Religious

Ally

Sans titre III

La marche périlleuse

N444

Hommage à Picasso

Têtes couronnées - Mona sortant du salon de coiffure

Regarde tout

Woman 1

Black & White

Madone aux yeux noirs

Vous, les femmes

Pamplemousse

Melancholie

Holding Hands VI

Um Outro Encanto, Joana Antunes

Thinker

Mimi

To The One Who Knows 1

Discover 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Children, Africa, Balloons

Golden Woman

At The Other Side Waiting - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Fashion, Love

Companionship - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Birds, Interior

Regal

Cultural Fusion