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Marilyn in Vogue (1962)
Bert Stern
Photography - 25 x 21 x 1 cm Photography - 9.8 x 8.3 x 0.4 inch
$1,775
Ballet dancer at rest - Ballerina painting + baroque frame
Domenico Ronca
Painting - 24 x 30 x 2 cm Painting - 9.4 x 11.8 x 0.8 inch
$335
Enfant avec ballon magique rouge 34
Miguel Guía
Sculpture - 34 x 9.5 x 6 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 3.7 x 2.4 inch
$692
Thom Yorke (2006)
Kevin Westenberg
Photography - 152 x 101 cm Photography - 59.8 x 39.8 inch
$14,802
Diptych Lock and Key, Rattling Cages, Carved Porcelain Decorative Plates
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 25.4 x 50.8 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 10 x 20 x 1 inch
$990
Diptych Flight Risk and Heights to Reach
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 38.1 x 29.2 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 15 x 11.5 x 1 inch
$1,350
Pachamama Glósóli 5 - oil impressionnist - French School - (XXL)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 80 x 120 x 3.7 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 1.5 inch
$6,698
Pachamama Glósóli 08 - oil impressionnist - French School - (XXL)
Bazévian Delacapucinière
Painting - 89 x 116 x 3 cm Painting - 35 x 45.7 x 1.2 inch
$6,698
Solar Eclipse
Amrita Bilimoria
Photography - 101.6 x 152.4 x 0.5 cm Photography - 40 x 60 x 0.2 inch
$5,500
Madagascar, Analamanga, Mahitsy, fabrique de briques
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Ambatondrazaka, son père avec ses deux garçons sur une moto chinoise
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Madagascar, Analamanga, Mahitsy, hôpital de district
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Madagascar, Analamanga, mère et fils agriculteurs
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Vodiala, garagiste
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Madagascar, Alaotra-Mangoro, Manganaro, enfants à la paroisse protestante du village
José Nicolas
Photography - 40 x 40 cm Photography - 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$670
Electric Cowboy
Pauline Corto
Photography - 57 x 40 x 0.3 cm Photography - 22.4 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
$536
Låt mig inte vänta
Mathias Szabo
Painting - 42 x 29.7 x 0.09 cm Painting - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$356
Peace & Justice Woman
Shepard Fairey (Obey)
Print - 61 x 46 x 0.1 cm Print - 24 x 18.1 x 0 inch
$1,116
Portrait of Basquiat
Emmanuel Ojebola
Painting - 71.1 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm Painting - 28 x 28 x 1 inch
$3,000
Portrait de femmes exotiques
Brito Esteves
Painting - 52 x 102 x 4 cm Painting - 20.5 x 40.2 x 1.6 inch
$2,009
Hausa and Fula cultures collide
John Kenny
Photography - 67 x 45 x 2 cm Photography - 26.4 x 17.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,635
Quiet Reflections
Ruslana Levandovska
Painting - 76.2 x 61 x 1.9 cm Painting - 30 x 24 x 0.75 inch
$12,090
That's life, That's life #265
Céline Pierzchala
Print - 45 x 30 x 0.1 cm Print - 17.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$145
La liberté de plaire guidant le peuple
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 130 x 200 x 3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 78.7 x 1.2 inch
$20,651
Une envie de Picasso A desire of Picasso
Marie Rauzy
Painting - 100 x 81 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.9 x 1.2 inch
$7,702
Jeune garçon sur le mur
Martín Duque
Sculpture - 78 x 17 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 6.7 x 10.6 inch
$1,429
The Eclectic
Nataliya Bagatskaya
Painting - 130 x 85 x 2.3 cm Painting - 51.2 x 33.5 x 0.9 inch
$2,121
El Revolucionario
James Sparshatt
Photography - 50 x 50 x 1 cm Photography - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,040
Still Cool
Sara Ingleby-Mackenzie
Sculpture - 35 x 13 x 7 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 5.1 x 2.8 inch
$1,256
The Norwegian Madonna
Nadezda Stupina
Painting - 100 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$5,459
Flat Lies (Terra)
Gianluca Fascetto
Painting - 90 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,228
Cristina's world (Identity assertions series)
Imanol Marrodán
Photography - 18 x 42 x 0.1 cm Photography - 7.1 x 16.5 x 0 inch
$363
Plage du Crouton/3 (1)
Jean-Jacques Venturini
Painting - 81 x 100 x 3 cm Painting - 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch
$1,674
What Nobody Wants to Know
Sebastian Picker
Painting - 80 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$6,698
Serie Anna. Moscow
Stanley Greene
Photography - 10.8 x 8.9 x 1 cm Photography - 4.3 x 3.5 x 0.4 inch
$10,046
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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!