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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Josane and Aldeni, Residents of Communities in the Demini River Region, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil (XL)

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His bees

Provocateur

The Tree of Love

Mit Zigarre / With Cigar

Paris, Déambulation 1

Sumatra, Indonesia (XL)

Ecuador II (S)

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South Sudan (XL)

Eliane, from the Yawanawá tribe, Kampa do Rio Amônea Indigenous Territory, State of Acre, Brazil (XL)

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Josane and Aldeni, Residents of Communities in the Demini River Region, Yanomami Indigenous Territory, State of Amazonas, Brazil (XL)

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Red Highland Cow (L)

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In the Misty Dusk - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Impressionism, Women

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Dent #6

Is this Love 1

Mobile 2

Femme assise

Summer mood

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Sans Titre

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Pow 2013

Israel 20 Shekel 1998 Circulated Bank Note

Une fille naturelle

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Texas Longhorn (S)

High Dex Bull (S)

Red Highland Cow (S)

Dappled Texas Longhorn (S)

Au-delà des montagnes, au-delà des rivières...

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Touch me III

Vase "She Loves Me"

Double Portrait

Portrait of King Oedipus

Portrait of King Oedipus

Double Portrait

Second Thoughts

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Girl on the rocks

Grain de beauté

El banquero

Regal Majesty

Echoes of Laughter: A Surreal Chaplin Portrait

La vergine

Horizons

Poissons dans mes cheveux 2

La prière

In chamomile-3

Don't be sulky, darling

Reciprocity 8

Untitled

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