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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Josane and Aldeni, Residents of Communities in the Demini River Region, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil (XL)

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Portrait

Portrait of Aloys Senefelder

Round Medusa

Giulia and Mileto

Don de soi III

Happy Hours I

Nelson Mandela

Sans Titre

Man in Green Shirt

Buste de Long John Silver

Summer 2

Aquarelle graphique 1

Aquarelle graphique 5

Pawpawrazzi (M)

Highland Cow No. 4 (S)

Spotted Leopard Snarl (S) (1)

Snowy Owl No. 3 (S)

Pink Cockatoo (S)

Chimpanzee No. 2 (S)

Texas Longhorn (S)

Highland Cow (S)

Highland Cow (S)

High Park Bull (S)

Highland Cow (S)

Highland Cow (S)

Aquarelle graphique 6

Small Town II

D/002

El viajero & Compradito (Silver)

Confabulacion

Close to nothing (Blue)

Close to nothing (Yellow)

In the Mirror

With Cupid

Tuareg vision of intensity

Playful Companionship

Figure

Le coeur

Freddie MERCURY - Peinture originale

Don de soi I

His bees

Soirée parisienne

Couleurs madras

Provocateur

Dent N°27

Mit Zigarre / With Cigar

Dent N°20

Dent N°22

Dent N°24

Dent N°25

Dent N°26

Cheveux aux vents

Sumatra, Indonesia (XL)

Ecuador II (S)

Siberia, Russia (L)

South Sudan (XL)

Eliane, from the Yawanawá tribe, Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil (XL)

Kamayurá pajés (shamans). Xingu Indigenous Territory, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil (XL)

Josane and Aldeni, Residents of Communities in the Demini River Region, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil (XL)

Peacock No. 2 (L)

Snowy Owl No. 3 (L)

Giraffe No. 2 (L)

Chimpanzee No. 2 (L)

Chimpanzee No. 1 (L)

High Park Bull (L)

Red Highland Cow (L)

Highland Cow (L)