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It’s Just a Game Boy
Gergana Ivanova
Sculpture - 15 x 8 x 4 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 3.1 x 1.6 inch
$284
Affair Of The Diamond Necklace (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
Rêver à la lune
Christine Desplanque
Painting - 60 x 60 x 3 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.2 inch
$898
Umbrella Silhouette II (S)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 57.2 x 76.2 cm Photography - 22.5 x 30 inch
$5,000
Umbrella Silhouette II (XS)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
Lipstick Cigarette II (XS)
Tyler Shields
Photography - 38.1 x 50.8 cm Photography - 15 x 20 inch
$2,500
From the series Ecology of soul and nature I
Mykola Mamchur
Painting - 50 x 60 x 0.5 cm Painting - 19.7 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,705
Back to Amy
Monika Nowak
Fine Art Drawings - 100 x 80 x 3 cm Fine Art Drawings - 39.4 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch
$6,366
Sans titre (mère et enfant)
Salfo Dermé (Yabré)
Sculpture - 55 x 15 x 23 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 5.9 x 9.1 inch
$2,046
Purple Medusa
Yahaira Cohinta Vannucchi
Painting - 127 x 79 x 3 cm Painting - 50 x 31.1 x 1.2 inch
$33,933
Mythologie grecque
Aurélie Trabaud
Painting - 65 x 54 x 1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 21.3 x 0.4 inch
$2,274 $2,046
De passage
Jean-François Laurent
Sculpture - 20 x 15 x 16 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 5.9 x 6.3 inch
$1,819
Fashion shoot for Amica magazine, New York
Martin Parr
Photography - 126 x 105 x 1 cm Photography - 49.6 x 41.3 x 0.4 inch
$45,471
La cage où le silence fût brisé par la voix d'un homme au bord des larmes
Sandra Chevrier
Painting - 80 x 60 x 2 cm Painting - 31.5 x 23.6 x 0.8 inch
$11,936
We are all martyrs (3) (after pina bausch) forbidden collage (12)
Julien Delagrange
Painting - 150 x 135 x 0.1 cm Painting - 59.1 x 53.1 x 0 inch
$7,093
Life Line - minimalism red blue
Les Panchyshyn
Painting - 100 x 100 x 2 cm Painting - 39.4 x 39.4 x 0.8 inch
$6,821
Homme de couleur
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 1 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0.4 inch
$455
Compassion
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Ti Punch
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
La Veuve
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Suavité
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Emotif
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Actrice d'Almodóvar
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Résignation
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
Indécision
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
La Vieille Peau
Théo Van Leeuwen
Fine Art Drawings - 40 x 30 x 0.01 cm Fine Art Drawings - 15.7 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$455
The Quiet Contemplation
Gegham Hunanyan
Painting - 50 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 19.7 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$350
Plant Lady, Sweet Home series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 70 x 50 x 1.5 cm Painting - 27.6 x 19.7 x 0.6 inch
$682
L'aquarium (7 Exemplaires Relief Artwork) Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 4 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
$1,704
Purple Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
The Sorceress Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
Futurist Body Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
Transcendant Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
Tea Time II Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
Tea Time Dibond
Cédric Brion Studio Clavicule Pics
Photography - 90 x 60 x 0.5 cm Photography - 35.4 x 23.6 x 0.2 inch
$1,136
Tombstone for Doc (Neapolitan)
Jay Hanscom
Painting - 92 x 31 x 6 cm Painting - 36.2 x 12.2 x 2.4 inch
$1,029
Girl with bouquet, Spring series
Olha Vlasova
Painting - 60 x 40 x 2 cm Painting - 23.6 x 15.7 x 0.8 inch
$682
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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!