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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Portrait

Spinario

Lovers - The portrait of love 4

Rose Notre-Dame 8

Girl 2020

Hommage to Antonello da Messina

Expectations

I'm seeing double

Blue Towel 2

Crying in the Rain

Viva

Arlecchino

Generaciones

Harmony in disarray

Rebel without a cause

Sac à main

Samuraï I

Habitus

Web of Intrigues

Scaffolder #1

Square Dance

Regardless - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Children, Jewellery

Framed by Foliage (The Rebirth) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Men

Don't Look Back, Your Life Isn't There Anymore -21st Century, Contemporary Women

First Fruit - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Mother and Child

Known Delight - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Religious

To The One Who Knows 1

Companionship - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women, Birds, Interior

Cultural Fusion

Kite

Ogumola

I Expect

Black pose

Aurora

Independent

Beauty of Blackness (Olanma)

Lady in red

La porte est toujours ouverte - série Les Poupées

Beauty of the bride

Fenetre sur cour

Flamenco dancer (Red)

The goddess

Narciso

Pause clope au boudoir

See my potato sack (Marilyn)

Madame

Julien

Red Picasso

Head in head

Man With Sunflower Seeds

Entranse

Serenity's embrace

Roots of her heart

Starship moonchild

Equilibrium

Victim (Boy)

Like A Wild Flower

Joséphine

Lara & Ashley

Renaissance écarlate - Buste de statue grecque

Sounds of friendship

Portrait de jeune femme

Finger style

My lady

Athena's Trinity

Woman on Valor

Cloaks 3: Expose