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

Lovers - Red - The colour of love 3

First date

Squarehead

Début du monde : la terre - série Paysage et histoire du monde

The drowning of consumption, Apple sauce

I am free to imprison myself - I

Inside the web

I am free to imprison myself - II

Let’s backbite together

Desert queen

Reverie 2

Lovers

The Hands That Holds Me

Tapestry of Love - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Men, Modern, Cat

Idolo - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Culture, Relics, Festival

Dance of a New Summer (Ege) -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative. Africa

Mon ami le chat

Couple

Voyages voyages...

Two Black Cats on the Sofa - Painting with Mona Lisa

Gémeaux

Sirène si Reine

Charming II

L'apache

Melody (1)

Children at ease

Waiting

Human Connection Nr.IV

Freedom Soul

Flower of Tibet

Le Graal de Vénus

Iphis & Ianthe

La lyre

Healing 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Blue, Africa

Picasso loved me 1

Into The Unknown 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa

Let The Poor Breathe - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Abstraction, Africa

Self Confidence

Ireti (Hope)

Timeless Friends

Golden boy 3

Frida Kahlo

Pierre Soulages

Man in Blue Suit

Shannon in Profile

Evening (second version)

Evening

N° 1144 La deuxième fille.

N° 1143 La première fille

N° 1142 Le mari N° 1

N° 1141 Elle, à trente ans.

N° 1140 Le fils.

N° 1139 Le mari N° 1

N° 1127 Elle et la mère malade.

N° 1126 Elle, à vingt ans.

N° 1125 Elle, à douze ans donc.

Ovie (King)

Guidance of Recognition

Rêverie

Kyalli (Glitter) - 21st Century, Expressionist, Figurative Portrait, Oil, Women

Beginning - cubism, geometry figurative

Red woman, abstract women body (1)

Red woman, abstract women body

Lady in blue

Portrait of Michael Jackson

Blond in Mirror