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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Ancêtre
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 15 x 15 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inch
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Yurei
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 10 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.5 x 3.9 x 0.4 inch
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Silent Soul (06)
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 13 x 13 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 5.1 x 5.1 x 0.4 inch
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Suaire
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 14 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.4 inch
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Étude d'après Munch
Richard Laillier
Fine Art Drawings - 12 x 8 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 4.7 x 3.1 x 0.4 inch
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Untitled
Alexandre Taillandier
Fine Art Drawings - 20 x 20 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inch
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La galette tire les rois
Christian Esctal
Painting - 97 x 130 x 4 cm Painting - 38.2 x 51.2 x 1.6 inch
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Radial progression #2. From The Geometric Head Series
Almo
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 0.5 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 0.2 inch
$3,200
Invading #1. From The Botanical Interruption Series
Almo
Painting - 99.8 x 59.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$2,800
Big invasion #2. From The Botanical Interruption Series
Almo
Painting - 99.8 x 74.9 x 0.5 cm Painting - 39.3 x 29.5 x 0.2 inch
$3,000
Ruben. From The series Buscando Mamá
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.3 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Untitled 4. From The series Buscando Papa
Celso Castro
Photography - 100.3 x 69.9 x 0.3 cm Photography - 39.5 x 27.5 x 0.1 inch
$1,500
Mujeres en naranja
Francisco Muñoz Tejeida
Painting - 42 x 70 x 1 cm Painting - 16.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch
$281
Bertrand avait chaud avec style
G. Carta
Painting - 30 x 20 x 0.1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 7.9 x 0 inch
$520
Personajes en fondo blanco
Enrique Pichardo
Painting - 80 x 120 x 1 cm Painting - 31.5 x 47.2 x 0.4 inch
$1,655
Work in progress!
Nicolas Denigot
Painting - 195 x 130 x 2.5 cm Painting - 76.8 x 51.2 x 1 inch
$9,247
Feel the Blue III
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$8,669
Stop the world 1 show me how to live
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 150 x 150 x 2 cm Painting - 59.1 x 59.1 x 0.8 inch
$9,825
Entre o Afeto II
Ritchelly Oliveira
Painting - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Painting - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$8,669
Happy birthday dad
Nolwenn Samson
Painting - 160 x 130 x 2 cm Painting - 63 x 51.2 x 0.8 inch
$9,825
La femme aux Roses
Nicolas Denigot
Painting - 116 x 89 x 2.5 cm Painting - 45.7 x 35 x 1 inch
$2,774
Le bruit des hommes me rappelle que je ne suis pas seule au monde...
Barbara Lavenda
Painting - 56 x 46 x 1 cm Painting - 22 x 18.1 x 0.4 inch
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Pause Cigarette #2 Red Roses
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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Pause Cigarette #7 motifs chinois
Zapata
Painting - 40 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
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The white sailing boat
Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Print - 75.7 x 52 x 0.1 cm Print - 29.8 x 20.5 x 0 inch
$2,173
Calligraphing en l'air #6
Cody Choi
Photography - 75 x 50 x 1.5 cm Photography - 29.5 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$2,059
Masque (Version 2)
Françoise Pétrovitch
Print - 120 x 160 x 0.1 cm Print - 47.2 x 63 x 0 inch
$2,659
Dedicated to Botticelli 4
Olga Marciano
Painting - 30 x 30 x 1 cm Painting - 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$925
Shining Loneliness
Tetiana Shendryk
Painting - 50 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$694
Tell me who your friends are...
Mikhail Baranovskiy
Painting - 59.9 x 49.8 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.6 x 1.2 inch
$650
3 in 1 Beauty - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, African Women
Samson Toba
Painting - 152.4 x 121.9 x 2.5 cm Painting - 60 x 48 x 1 inch
$4,250
Harlem Dude rehausse VIII/XII
Kelu Abstract
Print - 70 x 50 x 0.5 cm Print - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.2 inch
$751
