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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Clara Castagné
Fine Art Drawings - 85 x 80 x 1.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 33.5 x 31.5 x 0.6 inch
€3,200
Iana Cherepansky
Fine Art Drawings - 32.5 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€982 €835
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
Eric Demelis
Fine Art Drawings - 80 x 80 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
€1,600 €1,440
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
€893
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
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 €880
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
Atom Hovhanesyan
Fine Art Drawings - 45.7 x 40.6 x 0.05 cm Fine Art Drawings - 18 x 16 x 0 inch
€71,454
Laurent Anastay-Ponsolle
Fine Art Drawings - 76 x 56 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch
€950
Karl-Karol Chrobok
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.1 inch
€350
Konstantinos Papaioannou
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 70 x 0.2 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 27.6 x 0.1 inch
€1,300
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
€7,145
Arancha Tejedor
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.5 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.2 inch
€160
Marcel Gromaire
Fine Art Drawings - 40.5 x 49.5 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.9 x 19.5 x 0.1 inch
€6,900
Fritz Zolnhofer
Fine Art Drawings - 52 x 30 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 20.5 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€1,400
Cesare Bentivoglio
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 39 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.4 x 0 inch
€2,300
