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Autoportrait aviaire
Hatem Akrout
Painting - 120 x 80 x 1 cm Painting - 47.2 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch
$2,263
Imagine John Lennon
Virginie Schroeder
Painting - 51 x 51 x 2 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.8 inch
$1,358
Hockey Girl
Guillaume Cavalier
Fine Art Drawings - 35.6 x 27.9 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 14 x 11 x 0.1 inch
$950
Nezahualcoyotl - The First Constructor 1
Francisco Corzas
Print - 65.5 x 49 x 0 cm Print - 25.8 x 19.3 x 0.01 inch
$1,000
Rebel without a cause
Josh One
Painting - 147 x 98 x 4.5 cm Painting - 57.9 x 38.6 x 1.8 inch
$2,150
Jeanne Moreau / Paris Match
Jack Garofalo
Photography - 60 x 60 x 0.1 cm Photography - 23.6 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$2,173
Donna alla fontana
Salvatore Cippone
Painting - 60 x 50 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.8 inch
$1,471
Kitchen Indoor - Pakistan (7)
Sarah Caron
Photography - 34 x 49 x 0.1 cm Photography - 13.4 x 19.3 x 0 inch
$1,471
Acteur Japonais d'Antan Yesteryear Japanese Actor
Utagawa Kunisada Toyokuni III
Print - 33 x 23 cm Print - 13 x 9.1 inch
$1,075 $538
1987 Le Tigre et le Sage The Tiger and the Monk
Song Jiha
Print - 102 x 82 cm Print - 40.2 x 32.3 inch
$2,207 $1,103
L'enfant à la larme
Dominique Mückli
Sculpture - 35 x 30 x 27 cm Sculpture - 13.8 x 11.8 x 10.6 inch
$7,695
Remy - Portrait animalier toucan
Ezya
Painting - 60 x 80 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch
$566
Pride or prejudice
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$2,263
Madame
Léa Vandeveld
Fine Art Drawings - 31 x 21 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 12.2 x 8.3 x 0 inch
$820
Prayer for Kinshasa
Thiemoko Claude Diarra
Photography - 80 x 60 x 1 cm Photography - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.4 inch
$1,924
Rest and be moved
Margret Hübschen
Sculpture - 14 x 14 x 14 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 inch
$2,094
Vieil homme à la pipe
Louis Granata
Painting - 32 x 23 x 1 cm Painting - 12.6 x 9.1 x 0.4 inch
$1,811
The latent desire
Artush Voskanyan
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$3,500
La route est longue pour Gibraltar
Antonio Almodovar
Painting - 46 x 38 cm Painting - 18.1 x 15 inch
$1,188
La Froideur de l'Hiems 2
Ella Elijah
Photography - 42 x 29.7 x 0.1 cm Photography - 16.5 x 11.7 x 0 inch
$588
Time Flies but Memory Stays
Adha Widayansah
Painting - 75 x 60 cm Painting - 29.5 x 23.6 inch
$1,540
Tokyo Pic Nic II
Motohiko Hasui
Photography - 45.5 x 56 x 0.3 cm Photography - 17.9 x 22 x 0.1 inch
$566
Dottor Pupius
Massimo Festi
Photography - 200 x 100 x 1 cm Photography - 78.7 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch
$1,697
In Search of Peace
Sudipto Tewari
Fine Art Drawings - 56 x 61 cm Fine Art Drawings - 22 x 24 inch
$1,094
Sans Titre (DED463027)
Katsuko Kuroya
Fine Art Drawings - 30 x 30 cm Fine Art Drawings - 11.8 x 11.8 inch
$181
Mirrored Case - Jewel Sapphire
Sophie Derrick
Sculpture - 39 x 27 x 5.5 cm Sculpture - 15.4 x 10.6 x 2.2 inch
$2,395
Jeune fille
Albert Chavaz
Fine Art Drawings - 27 x 21 x 0.3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.1 inch
$936
Hope and happiness
John Mastrogiacomo
Photography - 40.6 x 61 x 5.1 cm Photography - 16 x 24 x 2 inch
$1,105
Marie-Antoinette - série Reine de France
Tara Soultana
Print - 60 x 80 x 0.2 cm Print - 23.6 x 31.5 x 0.1 inch
$849
Rimbaud - Arthur Headphone (travail des mains)
CharlElie Couture
Fine Art Drawings - 50 x 40 x 0.1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0 inch
$2,716
Verleiding (Temptation)
Rietje Geurts
Sculpture - 44 x 12 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.3 x 4.7 x 3.9 inch
$5,545
Allégorie du havre
Juliane Blasquez
Painting - 60 x 50 x 1 cm Painting - 23.6 x 19.7 x 0.4 inch
$1,188
Te tiny esther & coffee
Jeong Won Chun
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 4 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 1.6 inch
$1,683
Chien Pigeon Paris 1978 Paris Dog Pigeon
Pierre Van Poucke
Fine Art Drawings - 65 x 50 cm Fine Art Drawings - 25.6 x 19.7 inch
$736
Fats Domino, Paris, 1962
Hervé Gloaguen
Photography - 50 x 40 cm Photography - 19.7 x 15.7 inch
$2,037
Medusa Me
Elizabeth Sher
Photography - 57 x 57 x 0.4 cm Photography - 22.4 x 22.4 x 0.2 inch
$736 $662
Shadow on concrete
Polina Izvekova
Painting - 50 x 40 x 3 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 1.2 inch
$1,867
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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!